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Samsung BD-P2500 1080p Blu-ray Disc Player

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Brand: Samsung
Category: CE

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New (4) Used (2) from $329.99

Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

44 reviews
Sales Rank: 96

Media: Electronics
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Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6.8
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 16.9 x 2.3
Warranty: 1 year warranty

MPN: BD-2500
Model: BD-2500
UPC: 036725608009
EAN: 0036725608009
ASIN: B001HBHLEY

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Features:

•	Full HD 1080p
•	BD Live 2.0 Ready
•	Ethernet and USB for firmware upgrades
•	Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby Digital True-HD
•	DTS-HD upgradable

Accessories:

•	Premium HDMI v1.3 Cable (2M/6ft.)
•	Phoenix Gold DTX-920 Studio Reference Grade Toslink-to-Toslink Cables 6.5 ft (Phoenix Gold DTX920)
•	Phoenix Gold ARX-620 True Balanced OFC Audio Interconnect Cables 6.5 ft (Phoenix Gold ARX620)
•	Phoenix Gold Component Video Cable 2 Meter
•	Phoenix Gold VRX-620R Gold Level High-Resolution RCA-to-RCA Composite Video Cables 6.5 ft

Key Features

Total BD Profile Compatibility right out of the box, lets you instantly enjoy the latest interactive features available, including BD Live (Profile 2.0) and Bonus View (Profile 1.1)
Lots of Memory and Easy Upgradeability: The BD-P2500 comes with a built-in, wired Ethernet connection, 1GB of internal flash memory, and a USB port for memory expansion
Full HD 1080p
HQV processing chip for the highest quality viewing of Blu-ray discs, upconversion of standard DVDs, and viewing of JPEG images
HDMI 1.3 output with xvYCC Deep Color support, and a 24fps film mode, exhibiting smoother, more natural playback of film-based material.
7.1-Channel Dolby TrueHD Sound and dts-HD Master Audio capable of decoding the latest high-resolution digital multichannel audio soundtracks

HQV Video Processor

In a perfect world, every disc’s image that passed through your Blu-ray disc player into your HDTV would offer immaculate 1080p video with flawless color, impeccable detail, and nary a bit of pesky video noise. In the real world, though, pristine source material isn’t available for every Blu-ray disc?due to age or neglect of the original elements?and there are plenty of movies and TV shows on DVD that you’ll still want to watch on your Blu-ray player. HQV video processing is a great way of elevating those less-than-perfect video sources to a new level, and ensuring that you’re getting the most out of your beautiful high-definition video display.

To do this, the HQV video processors built into better Blu-ray players employ sophisticated algorithms to alleviate the problems that often plague less-than-perfect video sources. HQV processors analyze multiple video fields at once to determine where frames match up and where they don’t, and even which objects are in motion within those frames. In analyzing the video signal over time, the processor also determines the proper frame rate or refresh rate of the original video signal?whether it’s a 24 fps film source or a 30 fps video source, for example?and makes sure that it is dealt with properly. HQV video processors are also great at minimizing video noise without scrubbing the image of all its fine detail, as well as restoring some of the detail that’s lost as a result of aggressive video filtering during the Blu-ray or DVD mastering process. And unlike some competing video processors, HQV processors boast enough processing power to keep up with the multiple video streams (picture-in-picture and split screen) found on many new Blu-ray discs.

Stream Netflix Movies Right Over Your Player

Netflix, the world’s largest online movie rental service, has a library of more than 12,000 movies and television episodes available for streaming. You must be a Netflix subscriber in order to receive streaming video service. For Netflix customers you simply need to activate your new BluRay player to your existing Netflix account. Non-Netflix customers must first sign up for Netflix in order to utilize this feature-there is a monthly cost.

BD-Live

BD-Live is a Blu-ray feature that enables you to access special content via an internet-connected Blu-ray player. Because it's not coded into the disc, BD-Live content is always updated, always fresh. With BD-Live, your Blu-ray disc is different every time you view it.

Check out the latest previews, download special scenes, exclusive features and ringtones, and participate in online communities or games.

As BD-Live continues to grow and expand, even more features will become available, customizing features and content to your location or preferences. Now, your disc k

Bonus View

Blu-ray Disc has 5x more storage capacity than DVD, which allows more content to fit on the disc. The extra storage capacity also means more room for special features like inline navigation, Bonus View, interactive games, deleted scenes, director commentary and more
Navigate to special features, other scenes, or settings without leaving the content you are watching.	Bonus View lets you watch special features and commentary inline without leaving the movie.

High Definition Soundtrack Support and Output

Providing a truly immersive HD home theater experience, Samsung's BD-P2500 is capable of decoding the latest high-resolution digital multichannel audio soundtracks available. Out of the box, the player can output Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD and dts as an uncompressed PCM signal, as a bitstream, or via the 7.1 analog outputs for cinematic sound that is comparable with the latest movie theaters. Additionally, dts-HD HR (High Resolution) decoding will become available with a firmware upgrade in the fall. The BD-P2500 will also pass these and dts-HD MA (Master Audio) as a bitstream output to a separate, external surround sound decoder.

HDMI Features

x.v Color

RGB Color Range

xvYCC Color Range

Thanks to the adoption of a newly approved international color standard called xvYCC (an option in the HDMI v1.3 spec, the color space has been greatly expanded.

All Sony XBR HDTVs support the xvYCC color profile (Extended YCC Colorimetry for Video Applications), or "x.v. color" for short. Standard RGB color space allows the display of a portion of the colors that are viewable to the human eye. The next generation "xvYCC" color space actually offers an available range of colors that exceeds what human eyes can recognize.

Next-generation "xvYCC" color space supports 1.8 times as many colors as existing HDTV signals
Lets HDTVs display colors more accurately
Enables displays with more natural and vivid colors

Deep Color

So, where x.v. color expands the available range of colors your HDTV can display, Deep Color increases the number of colors your HDTV can display within that range, for smoother transitions from color to color.

Lets HDTVs and other displays go from millions of colors to billions of colors
Eliminates on-screen color banding, for smooth tonal transitions and subtle gradations between colors
Enables increased contrast ratio
Can represent many times more shades of gray between black and white

Specifications

Design

Piano black with chrome accents and touch pad controls

A/V Features

Compatible with BD Profile 2.0 (BD Live), Profile 1.1 (Bonus View), and Profile 1.0 interactivity features
1GB internal flash memory for BD Live
Award-winning Hollywood Quality Video (HQV) processing
24fps film mode
xvYCC Deep Color
Selectable DVD upconversion (720p / 1080i / 1080p)
Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD decoding
dts-HD HR decoding via firmware update in the fall
Dolby Digital Plus?, Dolby TrueHD, dts-HD HR / MA bitstream output

A/V Connections

1 HDMI version 1.3 output with CEC (Anynet+)
1 component output
1 composite output
7.1-Channel analog audio outputs
1 optical digital audio output
1 Ethernet connection (for interactivity features and firmware upgrades only)
1 USB connection (for memory expansion and firmware upgrades only)

Playable Media

BD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-R (V mode only), DVD-RW (V/VR mode), Audio CD, CD-R, CD-RW, AVCHD disc

Answers to Basic Questions About Blu-ray

What is Blu-ray?
Blu-ray is a new optical disc format with over five and a half times the storage capacity of a standard DVD (25 GB versus 4.5 GB). A dual-layer Blu-ray disc can hold up to 50 GB of information. With that increased storage, movie studios can finally provide movies on disc in high definition, offering 6x the resolution or image detail of DVD and up to 8 channels of lossless (better than CD quality) digital sound. The new format can also provide interactive features that go well above anything ever offered before.

Is Blu-ray different than HDTV?
HDTV, or high definition television, is a new broadcasting format that offers widescreen, high resolution images offering 6x the resolution or image detail of DVD, with up to 5.1 channels of digital audio. Until now, the signals were only available through over the air transmissions (via an antenna), or through digital cable and satellite signals. You can not get HD signals from a standard video tape or DVD. An HDTV is a high resolution video display that is capable of receiving and displaying these HDTV broadcasts or images. Blu-ray is a complement to your HDTV. It's a disc media format that has enough storage to include an entire movie, plus soundtracks and bonus materials, recorded in the high definition format. You can play Blu-ray discs back on your HDTV and see the same, if not better image and sound quality as you do from HDTV broadcasts.

What kind of TV do I need to enjoy Blu-ray?
You can play back Blu-ray movies on any TV with composite video or better inputs (not RF), but to get a worthwhile benefit from the format over DVD you'll want to have a high-definition television, or HDTV, with a vertical resolution higher than 480p, and preferably higher than 720p. Most Blu-ray titles can deliver an image with a vertical resolution of 1080i or 1080p. The more horizontal resolution the TV can reproduce, up to 1920 lines or pixels, the better.

How are Blu-ray discs different than regular DVDs?
Blu-ray discs are the same size as DVD or CD, but use a blue* laser to store and read data as opposed to the red laser used in DVDs and CDs. The blue laser's shorter wavelength, combined with a smaller aperture lens and a thinner cover layer on the disc makes it possible to create a smaller beam spot size capable of storing and reading much more, smaller information on the disc. A single-layer Blu-ray disc can hold 25 GB worth of data, compared to 4.5 on a standard DVD. A dual layer BD disc holds up to 50 GB. This translates into the ability to store a full 1080p HD image. This has a resolution consisting of 1920 by 1080 progressively scanned pixels, compared to standard DVD's 720 by 480 pixels. In addition, Blu-ray has much wider bandwidth than DVD, delivering signals at speeds up to 48 Mbps, six times faster than DVD's 8 Mbps, and nearly 2.5 times the data of an HDTV broadcast's 19.2 Mbps. *technically, it's violet, but who's keeping track?

Will Blu-ray discs play in my current DVD player?
No. You will need a Blu-ray player to be able to read the smaller, denser information found on a Blu-ray disc.

Will I be able to play standar DVDs on my Samsung Blu-ray player?
Yes. Blu-ray players are backwards compatible with your standard DVDs. They can also play CDs.

Is Blu-ray the same as HD DVD?
No. HD DVD was a competing format with less storage capacity than Blu-ray. With Toshiba, its primary champion announcing on February 19, 2008 that they would end production of HD DVD products, the few companies that were supporting the format announced that they would instead create products for the Blu-ray format.

What does up-conversion mean?
Consumers have over 50 years worth of material in standard definition formats. Up-conversion is the process of taking that existing, standard definition material and converting it (lines and pixels are copied to some degree) to the higher resolution needed to display those signals on an HDTV. When done well, the process can often improve picture quality, though it can't increase actual resolution. The quality of the up-converter, included in everything from up-converting standard DVD players to Blu-ray players and HDTVs, can often determine the quality of the picture.

What kind of cables, connections do I need to have to make Blu-ray work?
You will need either a 3-wire analog component (typically labeled Y, Pr and Pb) or an HDMI digital video connection between the BD player and the TV. The HDMI connection is preferable. Not only will it provide better image quality, but it will pass along higher resolution audio and control information, as well. You may get limited up-conversion options with standard DVDs when using the component connection.

What is firmware and do I need it?
Firmware is like computer software, or the instruction set in the player that tells the hardware what to do under various conditions. Insert a disc, and the firmware tells the player to read the disc. Press the Play button and the firmware tells the player to play the movie. Generally speaking, the firmware is invisible to the end user. But Blu-ray keeps evolving, and new features keep being created. With each new feature that a movie studio comes up with, hardware manufacturers have to release new instruction sets, or firmware, to deal with it. Samsung's ability to easily update the firmware in their BD players makes them one of the best in the business.

Who supports Blu-ray?
At this point, nearly everyone supports Blu-ray. All the major movie studios have announced that they would support Blu-ray with both new and catalog titles. Thousands of movies and music videos are already available. Most major electronics manufacturers have been supporting Blu-ray since the format's beginning.

Can I rent movies on Blu-ray?
Yes. Blockbuster, Hollywood Video and Netflix, among other places, offer Blu-ray titles for rent.

Are my regular DVDs obsolete?
Not by the definition Merriam Webster would use. You can still play your regular DVDs on your Blu-ray disc player, so they're still useful, but you'll want to replace them with Blu-ray versions as they become available in the new format so that you can enjoy the improved image and sound quality.

Is the only benefit to Blu-ray the video quality? Why should I upgrade to Blu-ray?
You will probably upgrade because of the video quality, but you may also appreciate the improved sound quality available on some players as well as the advanced interactive features. Blu-ray offers the latest generation audio codecs that can play back up to 8 channels of surround sound with improved audio quality over that of standard 5.1 digital soundtracks. This includes Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, DTS High Resolution and DTS Master Audio. Blu-ray also offers advanced bonus features that can include interactive game features or picture-in-picture commentary tracks, not to mention additional features that could be downloaded after the disc has been produced.

Do I need to buy a new home theater system?
You don't need a new audio system, but you should at least have a surround system (five speakers and ideally a subwoofer) with Dolby Digital or DTS audio decoding to hear the theater-like audio experience that is available on Blu-ray. Some BD players offer more advanced audio codecs that provide even better quality sound through up to 8 channels of surround.

What do all these audio formats mean?
You can hear better-than theater-like audio at home. As George Lucas has said, sound is 50% of the movie experience. With the right audio equipment, you can hear up to 7.1 channels of sound that is no different than what the recording engineers heard in the mixing room.

What's the benefit of 24p?
Movies are recorded on film at 24 frames per second (fps). Video is recorded and played back at 60 frames per second. Movies must be converted to 60 frames before being played back on your TV. Blu-ray discs record movie content in the original 24 frame format, and convert the signal within the player to output at 60 fps for standard HDTVs. Some current HDTVs, like Samsung's Auto Motion Plus 120Hz models, and undoubtedly more future ones, can accept and play back the 24 frame signal without the intermediary conversion to 60 fps, which can offer a smoother, more natural-looking image.

What does Profile 1.0, 1.1, 2.0 mean?
Blu-ray's specifications for video are broken into three profiles, each with its own set of hardware and software requirements. Profile 1.0 gave hardware manufacturers a grace period to create players that were capable of Blu-ray video playback, but didn't need to meet the final standard profile requirements. This grace period ended October 31, 2007. These players, while not able to take advantage of all of Blu-ray's promised extra content, will provide full 1080p video playback.

Profile 1.1, also known as BonusView, makes certain requirements mandatory: picture-in-picture, secondary audio mixing, a minimum of 256MB of memory (built-in or removable), and the incorporation of a virtual file system. Players created and sold after October 31, 2007 are required to meet the Profile 1.1 specification, and therefore will take advantage of 1.1-enabled bonus materials on certain BD discs.

BD-Live (Profile 2.0) makes mandatory all parts of Profile 1.1, but increases the memory requirement to 1GB and adds the hardware requirement of a network connection. This specification enables the even-more interactive web-based bonus material found on discs that provide such content.

Customer Reviews: Read 39 more reviews...

3 out of 5 stars

It's good, but don't get too excited January 6, 2009
shoo (seattle usa)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful

This has been said many times before, and I will repeat it -- right now, as of January 2009, the best overall blu-ray player for your money is the PS3. Now, with that said, most of our movie watching is via netflix, so this seemed like a player useful to us due to the streaming option. However, what isn't advertised is the fact that, if you use a wireless network for your internet use, you will need a seperate wireless bridge to be able to use the live function. It didn't occur to me that this player wouldn't be capable of that beforehand, because my PS3 has spoiled me into thinking everything can be wireless. Of course, your device needs a cpu to be able to process that connection, and as such, there is not a standalone blu-ray player that is thus far that smart (again, except for the PS3). So, if you want to use this for the netflix function, just know you also need to buy a bridge if you do wireless internet like most of the world. Unless of course you want to run wires from where your internet modem is to the player itself. Personally, I don't have my computer and modem in the same room where my tv is...
Also, worth mentioning is the fact that the major movie makers have just cracked down on the whole streaming industry, and there are less and less options available to choose from with netflix, with the talk being that future new releases might not even be offered in this format...

4 out of 5 stars

Great Blu ray player, netflix option is awesome but some quirks January 6, 2009
Arun Gupta
Recently bought Samsung's BP-P2500 along with Sony's BDP-S350. The quality of both of them playing blu ray movies is almost indistinguishble. Both of them are absolute stunning. The netflix option to see online content bought me to plunge buying Samsung and also because it would gel well with my 52" Samsung LN52A650 very well. I watch Matrix series from my collection of Standard DVDs on both the players and found the quality of samsung maybe a little better than Sony. Also, tried watching online streaming from Netflix and was enjoying till the following happened.

Here's the problem. It seems my cable service provider has limited set of bandwidth and allows limited size to be downloadable content from net. I suddenly got the message "Your title is no longer available" while watching the netflix's online movie. However, the whole unit hanged and it did not allow me to access the menu on samsung player. I could still watch movies loading on player but the moment I try to access the player's menu, the whole unit gets hangs. The player started to work only after I removed the ethernet cable from the player. I understand the issue could be due to my low bandwidth but why hang the system. Just wondering whether I am the only one experience the issue or there are others too. Samsung support did not have any solutions to offer me.

4 out of 5 stars

Definitely worth the money if you have a Netflix subscription... January 4, 2009
carlypanda (Rochester, NY)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Although this is is my first Blu-ray player, the main reason why I purchased this was for Netflix streaming, which already being an avid Netflix lover, makes me love it even more. Being a huge film buff, always searching for new films/TV, this player is great because you can never run out of things to watch!

Although a lot of people have commented on the lengthy load time, it doesn't seem to bother me, nor does the fact you have to add Netflix selections to your add instantly queue from your computer. I also think that the quality of regular DVDs is enhanced a bit on this player and I like the feature of it shutting off automatically after standing idol for a while because I've heard of these blu-ray/netflix players burning out (more specifically in the LG version, not the Samsung). Also, the pause/rewind/fastforward/resumeplay is a great feature on the watch instantly selections. Having all these films/TV shows at your fingertips is like owning them, at least for the period that they're offered as watch instantly, plus Netflix is ALWAYS adding more stuff to watch, so it's very difficult to run out of watching something new everyday.

The reasons why I rated this 4 stars and not 5 are:
- On some of the Netflix options, the syncing doesn't match up. It may not bother some people, but I can't watch something when the sound is a few seconds behind the picture.
- The first time I installed the firmware, it took over an hour, which was very discouraging seeing how excited I was to see how the player worked. It turns out that the system froze and being the first time it was ever used, made me a little weary, but it worked after rebooting and I haven't had a firmware problem since.
- On certain Blu-rays, the sound is a little off. For instance, on Wall-e, the music was really loud compared to everything else and you couldn't hear anything that Wall-e was saying. I messed with the sound options on the player and nothing seemed to work. I don't think this problem, however, is the player's fault seeing that I don't have and HD tv nor do I have surround sound. I think this problem could be easily fixed with these things, which I am planning to get in the near future, but am pleased the Netflix and regular DVD player worked, for the most part, without them.

Overall, I'm so pleased with this player, and although it's a little more pricey, it's refreshing being able to watch something new everyday with Netflix streaming, play your DVDs, your Blu-rays (and more!) for just the price of this player and a Netflix subscription. Highly recommended!!

4 out of 5 stars

Yes, I bought this one. January 4, 2009
M. Cocroft (Atlanta, GA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

I bought this player for the bedroom and it's fine. I have this as the only stand alone and a Playstation 3 (better value, but a pain) as the player in the home theater. I like this player and give it 4 stars. Only 4 because of the trouble with the 2 year old Philips plasma and HDMI issue. I'm pretty happy with the quality of the Netflix download service on a 42" screen. Falls apart in dark and high motion like most MPEG downloads.

While I've got your attention, let's get a few things straight:

1. Blu Ray is slow.
2. Blu Ray is very sensitive to dust,scratches, and fingerprints.
3. Your BluRay player may not play all BluRay discs. Sorry if you opened it before figuring this out.
4. If you have a TV that suuports HDMI but not BluRay, you may have to use Component cables. You did know that HDMI was cooked up for digital rights management, not quality, right? Apple had to have something to do with it . . .
5. The online update works fine on mine but takes forever. By forever I mean 10-15 minutes. This is on a internet connection that's fast enough to not buffer video.
6. You can't tell it's in High Def on anything less than 50".
7. They haven't found a good use for BDLive(The internet tie in).

5 out of 5 stars

Great Picture, Best Choice for Netflix Subscibers January 2, 2009
S.Zimm (Hartford, CT USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

This is a great machine at a great price for those looking to update to Blu-Ray and have Netflix. You need an USB wifi adapter or ethernet cable to update the firmware and use the Netflix features. Yes, it's a pain to hook up initially (my firmware update took over an hour to download and install), but I couldn't be happier now. Just be patient.

1) Blu-Ray discs look amazing - as they probably do with all players
2) DVD's look unbelievable. Great upscaling!
3) Sound quality on movies is great , but you can't expect everything from one machine. Audio CD's and Audio DVD's are pretty bad. I have a NAD cd-player also hooked up into my Denon receiver and the sound quality is not close to the sound on the Samsung. Music is important to me and this machine is NOT GOOD FOR AUDIO.

*AUDIO SIDE NOTE - If you like listening to music, spend $150-$300 and get yourself a Denon DCN-370 (5-disc changer, about $275) or any of the NAD CD Players (T-215BEE's can be had for $150-$200).

4) NETFLIX is really, really fun. Much better quality video than on my laptop hooked up to the same internet connection. HD movies are DVD quality, normal movies are a little worse than DVD. It was easier to set-up and use than described by a lot of people and had a one-time set-up with the netflix website. The future of TV is right in front of our eyes.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.

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