Blu Ray Disc Players

The latest announcement of their exclusive support for HD-DVD format by “Dreamworks animation” and “Paramount” has put people in dilemma and has made them start looking forward for players that support both these high definition formats. Next to LG’s BH100, Samsung has taken its chance in supporting both Blu-ray and HD DVD formats. Thus it can support both the formats interactive features, BD Java and HDi. Samsung BD-UP5000 Hybrid HD DVD & Blu-Ray Disc Player offers the same playback capabilities as that of BD-2400 including the Hollywood video processing (HVP). Samsung has loaded performance and functionality into an attractive package. You can now experience the additional studio content such as behind the scene footage, director’s comments, more elaborate interactive menus and trailers.

Design:
Samsung BD-UP5000 HD-DVD Blu-Ray Disc combo player has a glossy black finish with a soft-lit LCD screen display. The rear side of the player includes the ports such as the optical and coaxial audio outputs, the HDMI connection, component video and standard def S-video, composite video outputs and 7.1 analog audio connections.

Features:
Samsung’s BD-UP5000 combo player has an attractive list of features. This duo has the ability to playback all your favourite CDs and DVDs with its exquisite multi-format DVD playback capabilities. It supports HDi for HD DVD and BD-Java for Blu-ray. BD-UP5000 sports an Ethernet connector for interactive content and firmware updates. It has the HDMI1.3 connection which will support the lossless formats DTS-MA and TrueHD, 1.3 Deep Colour and also the HDMI-CEC in order to manipulate the HDMI. Output selections are provided while using the standard definition discs or HD which includes, 1080p, 1080i and 720p. 1080p can be set to either 60Hz or 24Hz. The player is also equipped with Silicon Optix’s Reon Scaler Chip which is used in Samsung’s BD-1200 and is also to be integrated in BD-2400. This chip offers best upscale of standard definition content to HD.

Performance:

Start-up:
Once the player is started, it takes around 35 seconds to flash the initial blue screen of Samsung and when the disc is loaded, the HD format takes around 25 seconds and the standard Definition DVD took just 15 seconds to produce their first image. This time consumption can be said as not bad for a duo player.

Accurate conversions:
This Samsung BD UP5000 Blu Ray and HD DVD player confirmed complete bandwidth output for HD DVD and perfect de-interlacing of 1080i content and 3.2 cadence with the Blu-Ray’s version of Silicon Optix’s Reon Scaler Chip. This feature is a very important one, as the majority of the present HD TVs lack proper conversion of 24fps content to 60fps content. Proper saturation and accurate reproduction were found in the colour bands. The player picture controls are not there and it does not need one too.

Picture performance:
The picture quality is very good. They look sharp and bright. The new Graphical User Interface (GUI) used is clear and has texts in and comfy to read format. Samsung BD UP5000 Video player has quicker entry into the menus and faster chapter changes which is a good improvement from its predecessors. The player also has included a cute new time bar on top of the screen. HD DVD version 300 provided the required interactive features for BD UP-5000.

Memory and connectivity:
By connecting the router through the Ethernet port, you can download the unique web enabled features from the internet with the HD DVD 300 inserted. The player has 256MB internal memory. But the player lacks USB port, a HD DVD feature to blow up the memory of the player with a pen drive.

Samsung BD-UP5000 1080p Blu-ray and HD DVD compo player will surely impress you than LG’s BH200 combo player. Inclusion of HQV video processing and support for high resolution video are its major attractions.

Technical Specification details of Samsung BD-UP500

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