Review: Samsung BD-P2500 Blu-ray Player

[admin]

Price: $400 At A Glance: Netflix streaming • Average usability • BD-Live support • Outstanding HD and SD video processing by Silicon Optix HQV

http://www.hometheatermag.com/discplayers/samsung_bd-p2500_blu-ray_player/

[gonwk]

OK Admin ... if you insist you guys can get this for me for Christmas 2009!

[drfsupercenter]

The price is the same as the PS3... how's the upscaling compare? I have a PS3 and it's not "bad" per se, but if this one's better I'll be disappointed since I thought Sony Blu-Ray players were "the best of the best".

[ed klein]

If the Samsung BD-P2500 won't play homemade compliant Blu-ray structure built on BD-5, BD-9, BD-R, as well as the standard commercial BD-ROM disks built on 25gb and 50gb disk the Blu-ray player is close to USELESS.

BD-Live is just another method of Sony keeping track of your BD-player habits. Mandatory telephone line requirement

Netflix streaming mandatory high speed internet to work. I would rather have the Blu-ray disk in my hand so I could do whatever I want with the disk.

Looks like high price junk to me.

[Abuilder]

This thing must be directed at the US market. Nobody in Japan wouild buy this piece of..........
$400 ROFLMAO

[gadgetman2]

Nice to see a good processing chip in the Silicon Optix HQV. Should be very good with upscaling DVD's at least.

[drpepper]

"...If won't play homemade..." Confused. Does it? What players do?

[UncasMS]

i'm more than happy with the bd-2500

Nice to see a good processing chip in the Silicon Optix HQV. Should be very good with upscaling DVD's at least.

believe me it IS

the reon chip for dvd playback is exactly what i wanted for decent playback of my dvd collection on a newer lcd

[gonwk]

"...If won't play homemade..." Confused. Does it? What players do?

Just use Western Digital Media Player Box for the Homemade stuff!

G!

[ed klein]

@ drpepper

The older Sony's do, like the BDP-S301, which is the one I have from Costco and the Sony's BDP-S300.

http://www.blu-ray.com/players/

An outdated website, but plug-in the options you want your Blu-ray player to have and see which ones will play compliant Blu-ray structures built on BD-5 and BD-9.

Build a homemade compliant Blu-ray structure and take the disk to electronics stores like Best Buy which have a demo and see if it will play or read the box the Blu-ray player came in VERY CLOSELY.



Blu-ray players are starting to get more popular for playing any size blank media blu-ray disks over the PS3.