Welwynnick
Distinguished Member
Samsung have just started selling thier new BD-P1200 BD player, so I thought we ought to have a thread for this player, as it appears to be quite significant for a number of reasons. There's a specification here, but it's pretty much useless unfortunately:
http://www.samsung.com/Products/Blu_ray/Blu_rayDiscPlayer/files/bd-p1200.pdf
It plays CDs, DVDs and BDs.
The video decoder is the Broadcom BCM 7440.
The HDMI output is V1.3.
It outputs 1080p60 like the current player, but adds 1080p24.
Like the HD-XE1, it uses the Silicon Optix (HQV) ReonVX for video processing.
However, unlike the XE1, 1080p24 is decoded directly by the decoder.
This helps to avoid the up-sampling and de-interlacing artifacts associated with indirect decoding to 1080i.
The ReonVX should help make it a good progressive / upscaling DVD player.
Aside from region-coding, the US version does not play PAL DVDs.
There is no Dolby TrueHD or DTS-HD decoding, and this is not planned.
What is not yet known:
Does the HDMI V1.3 output carry Dolby TrueHD or DTS-HD bitstreams to a (future) AV amp for decompression and decoding?
There is an ethernet port for easy firmware updating, but it's not clear if this works properly.
Again, a rather incomplete BD player that will never be anyone's last player, but it does seem to have the potential to produce some very good video. MSRP in the US is $799.
Nick
http://www.samsung.com/Products/Blu_ray/Blu_rayDiscPlayer/files/bd-p1200.pdf
There are some significant facts that have emerged from reliable sources, though.
It plays CDs, DVDs and BDs.
The video decoder is the Broadcom BCM 7440.
The HDMI output is V1.3.
It outputs 1080p60 like the current player, but adds 1080p24.
Like the HD-XE1, it uses the Silicon Optix (HQV) ReonVX for video processing.
However, unlike the XE1, 1080p24 is decoded directly by the decoder.
This helps to avoid the up-sampling and de-interlacing artifacts associated with indirect decoding to 1080i.
The ReonVX should help make it a good progressive / upscaling DVD player.
Aside from region-coding, the US version does not play PAL DVDs.
There is no Dolby TrueHD or DTS-HD decoding, and this is not planned.
What is not yet known:
Does the HDMI V1.3 output carry Dolby TrueHD or DTS-HD bitstreams to a (future) AV amp for decompression and decoding?
There is an ethernet port for easy firmware updating, but it's not clear if this works properly.
Again, a rather incomplete BD player that will never be anyone's last player, but it does seem to have the potential to produce some very good video. MSRP in the US is $799.
Nick
