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...Still, when I got the Samsung Blu-ray, and loaded the first of a handful of currently available Blu-ray discs from Sony Pictures and Lionsgate, the player took very little skill to evaluate. It would either play, or it wouldn't. At first - to my dismay and to Samsung's - it wouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-ray Disc Player | 6/28/2006 | See Source »

...spat out as unreadable. I tossed in a regular DVD, and it played just fine. Only after a day or so did the player inexplicably begin to recognize Blu-ray media. After its change of heart, I had no trouble with any discs, even ones it had previously rejected. Samsung assures me this problem can be solved with a firmware upgrade, administered via disc. The company also stated that its review samples were not from the same production run as the ones now in retail, but I still urge caution. The BD-P1000 is first-generation equipment, and it, like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-ray Disc Player | 6/28/2006 | See Source »

After months of spear shaking on both sides, the first skirmishes in the high-definition disc format wars have begun. In early May, I looked at Toshiba?s chosen format, HD DVD. Today, I present the very first Blu-ray disc player, Samsung?s significantly more expensive BD-P1000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-ray Disc Player | 6/28/2006 | See Source »

...Bugs aside, the dude-friendly movies ranging from sci-fi fantasies like Ultraviolet and Underworld: Evolution to big brooders like Crash and Lord of War (plus Hitch, for some reason) looked smooth and flawless on my 42-inch plasma TV, and captured an even more cinematic brilliance on Samsung's 50-inch DLP TV. The DLP has a screen resolution of 1920 x 1080 (known in the biz as 1080p), not accidentally the same resolution as Blu-ray disc content itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-ray Disc Player | 6/28/2006 | See Source »

...Shooting mode for consecutive shots. Is little Johnny bouncing a basketball for the first time? You'll have your choice of archiving the milestone in a movie version, or with accurate quick-motion still shots, cropped in to your liking with a zoom lens of up to 5x. The Samsung Digimax L85 costs around $500?feel free to supplement it with a roomier memory card...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gorgeous Body, Smart Mind | 6/12/2006 | See Source »

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