Samsung BD-P1200

Samsung's 2nd generation Blu-ray is hitting retail shelves this week, and HDGuru has the first review up. As you might expect, the next gen is both better and c...

Preview of the Samsung BD-P1200 Blu-Ray Player.

One of the bigger buzzwords going around these days is HDTV. Everyone seems to want high-def this and high-def that. Just as we encountered with VHS and Betamax, we are once again amidst a format war of sorts. On one side of the arena is HD DVD, backed...

Samsung took charge in the Blu-ray race last year with its first player in the heated high def disc dash. Now its second player has entered the fray and it comes loaded with some pretty formidable offerings.

Power Processing comes to Blu-ray While the in the end, Samsung's first foray into the Blu-ray world wasn't the major culprit in said format's poor picture quality (turns out most of the early discs just didn't look very good), it was still rather...

With the BD-P1200, Samsung enters Blu-ray, The Next Generation, with a smartly styled, less expensive machine. But it's getting harder to keep up with this stuff. Shortly before I finished this report, word arrived that two new Samsung players would be...

I anticipate that the basic feature set of the new players will be very similar to this one. As for performance, I would not be surprised to find that the BD-P2400, in particular, provides performance very similar to the BD-P1200. So you might look at...

While the in the end, Samsung's first foray into the Blu-ray world wasn't the major culprit in said format's poor picture quality (turns out most of the early discs just didn't look very good), it was still rather lackluster. It didn't upconvert DVDs...