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Samsung BD-P1400 1080p Blu-Ray Disc Player | 
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| Brand: Samsung
Category: CE
List Price: $399.99
Buy Used: $150.00
You Save: $249.99 (62%)
New (2) from $299.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  204 reviews
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 9.3
Dimensions (in): 12.8 x 16.9 x 3.1
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Warranty: 1 Year Parts, 90 Day Labor Limited Warranty
MPN: BD-P1400
Model: BD-P1400
UPC: 036725607828
EAN: 0036725607828
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Dolby Digital, Dolby TrueHD, DTS HD support | | • | Ethernet Port | | • | 1080p display capability | | • | Upconverts DVD's up to 1080p via HDMI |
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From the Manufacturer
Samsung's BD-P1400 is a perfect centerpiece to your media environment, providing the features you need for a fulfilling entertainment experience. Advanced Blu-ray playback technology gives you crisp, clear images, while added picture quality adjustment lets you set sharpness and noise reduction to your liking. HDMI v1.3 lets you experience richer colors. Dolby Digital Plus and Dolby TrueHD compatibility completes the HD experience. | CD and DVD Compatible
 | | Samsung's Blu-ray Disc Player offers state of the art viewing with CD and DVD playback compatibility. Even as you take advantage of the latest video and audio advances, you can still enjoy all your existing media content. | | 1080p with 24Hz Output
 | | View scenes as they were meant to be seen. The Blu-ray movie title's original source (1080p/24Hz) output means you'll enjoy the film picture quality. | | Seamlessly Connect Your Digital Devices
| | With High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI™ version 1.3), a single cable transfers the full power of the Blu-ray Disc Player's high-definition video and audio signal to your HDTV and other digital devices. Version 1.3, standard in the BD-P1400, transfers deeper color and higher resolution, and handles the new, compressed audio formats. Another plus: Your room is freed from the unsightly tangle of multiple cords and cables. | | | Dolby Digital Plus and Dolby True HD
Immerse yourself in sound. The BD-P1400 supports the new Dolby Digital Plus Audio format — the next generation in sound. It also supports uncompressed PCM Audio and Legacy dts 5.1 Dolby Digital. Dolby TrueHD is Dolby's next-generation lossless technology developed for high-definition disc-based media. Dolby TrueHD delivers tantalizing sound that is bit-for-bit identical to the studio master,* unlocking the true high-definition entertainment experience on next-generation discs. | | Anynet + Ready TV
 | | You're in full command with the BD-P1400. Anynet+ delivers streamlined, one-touch control over all your Anynet compatible connected devices such as the TV, AV Receiver, and Home Theater. You can operate all of them with a single remote control that enables commands to be passed among devices within the system. A true "plug and play" product, it comes with a Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) feature that lets you operate Samsung HDMI products with a single remote control. | | One Remote
 | | Trust Samsung to make home entertainment a seamless and exhilarating experience. Thanks to High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI™) with Consumer Electronic Control (CEC), just a click of a single remote control accesses any digital device in your SAMSUNG home entertainment system., and laptops. HDMI is the best performing interface for displaying an HD source on an HDTV. | |
Product Description
HDMI and HDMI CEC / Plays BD to 1920x1080 / Upconverts DVD to 1080p / Selectable 60 and 24 frame per second / Dolby True HD and DTS HD
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| Customer Reviews: Read 199 more reviews...
Overall good player with some major quirks November 22, 2007
421 out of 433 found this review helpful
I have a BD-P1400, a PS3, and an Xbox 360 + HD-DVD drive. In the month that I've had the Samsung it's done a terrific job on video and audio quality. I'm playing it on a 46" Samsung LN-T4665F connected through HDMI. That's the good news, and it's certainly good. I've never had any of the stutters or other audio/video glitches that others have mentioned. On the other hand, here are the quirks that I've run into: (1) The Samsung takes by far the longest of my three players to load movies, and simply responding to an eject/open request takes 30 seconds for some reason (even when there's no disc inside). There's no feedback to tell you what's happening during eject, so you wonder if it's hung or actively thinking about it. (2) The Blu-ray movie producers in their infinite wisdom keep changing their DRM formats as their latest ones get hacked, which is an unbelievably customer unfriendly decision. The BR players are all updatable so it's conceptually possible to play the latest movies. Unfortunantely, the Samsung has a VERY unintuitive failure mode and upgrade procedure, which likely makes this required operation out of reach for most people on this device. Here's my (very long) step by step experience, which I hope will help give you a tangible understanding of what it's like, as well as potentially out anyone else similarly stuck. I ran into this with the new Live Free or Die Hard DVD, which after the usual 45 second or so load process simply hung the player. It wouldn't respond to any input (play, stop, menu, etc), the counter read "0000", and the screen remained black. I had heard about the DRM format issue, so suspected that this could be the potential problem - unfortunately I had bought that DVD on its first day of release and tried to play it that night so no one else had posted about their problems with that config yet. Following the manual's instructions, I plugged in a enet cable and tried to pick up the latest update. For some reason it didn't successfully get a DHCP address on my network, so I manually entered the network info. It told me that there was a new update available, so I selected download. When the download process strated, again these was no way to tell whether it was hung or actively working, and no way to tell how much progress it had made and how much more it still needed. As a result, after about 30 or 45 minutes I cancelled and tried again. (BTW, I'm connected through a Verizon FiOS fiber-optic connection that's as fast as any consumer internet in the US). After 20 minutes I gave up and went to bed, leaving it to (maybe) download overnight. In the morning, the machine was off but it when I powered it up I learned that it had not completed the upgrade. In retrospect I believe this is what happened: the download eventually completed, it put up a "do you want to upgrade your firmware" dialog box, and after a couple minutes of inactivity it timed out and eventually turned off. Nice design, their engineers clearly did not try this in their homes. I gave it one more try in the morning, leaving it running while I ate breakfast and did email. After an hour or so the download completed, the "do you want to upgrade" dialog came up, and I said "yes" before it timed out. The upgrade completed successfully, but unfortunatley the Live Free or Die Hard movie still hung the player. At this point I suspected a faulty disc, so I got a replacement from the retailer. The new disc had the same problem, though, which told me that this was a player bug. Since the movie had been out for a day, I found a couple posts of other people having problems including one that got a confirmation from Samsung support. I called support, who eventually told me that the version 1.2 firmware on the website would fix the issue (hint, you need to know exactly what to ask and be persistent since this person would have sent me away with false information if I hadn't kept clarifying her responses). Going to the website, I found the alternate method of upgrading the firmware that the support person desribed, downloading a zip file to a PC, loading the .iso to a CD-R or CD-RW, and playing that on the player. I hadn't found this in the user's manual, but it certainly couldn't be any worse than the online method I had gone through in the previous 24 hours. Interestingly, there was no obvious way to relate the "version 1.2" available on the website with the version I had upgraded to online that morning (the online version uses a long date code instead of a version number). With nothing to lose, I went ahead and tried using a CD-RW using the instructions posted on the web. No luck, the player didn't recognize it as a firmware update. I tried again with a CD-R. Still no luck. Still clinging to a tiny shred of hope that (a) the "version 1.2" might actually fix the problem, and (b) the version 1.2 might have been posted to the web that day after I did my upgrade in the morning - a day after a major blockbuster movie that required it was released nationwide, but who's counting - I tried the painful online update process again. Lo and behold, a new update was available that might be version 1.2 (?) I went through the update, and the movie worked! Wow. This is a lot more detail than you likely need to make a buying decision, unless you read this and say "wow, reading those details tells me that this machine requires a lot more technical messing around than I'm comfortable with just to watch a movie". Potentially this might help someone else who has already bought the player figure out why a new movie hangs the box mysteriously - I would have LOVED to find this two days ago. Maybe Samsung will even read it and start to understand how painful their current usability is, even for a moderately technical user.
 Good Quality - Missing Features October 22, 2007
201 out of 209 found this review helpful
Unfortunately, since Bluray is still in its infancy (so-to-speak) there aren't many options for players. I bought the BD-P1400 and found that while the picture quality is great and the upconversion quality is superb, there are still some problems with this player. My first unit starting having hardware/software problems; namely, it would simply quit playing during the middle of the movie, at random times and multiple times throughout a movie. I returned the unit and exchanged for the same model and have not experienced the same problem with the new unit. Also, there are some basic functions missing on this player:
1) No Replay/Skip-back button which seems to be a pretty standard feature on DVD players nowadays. I miss this button a lot.
2) No memory feature. When you stop a movie you have to start over as if you just loaded it in the player.
3) (2) becomes a very annoying problem if you pause movies frequently for breaks or doing chores around the house, which I do a lot. When you pause a movie it will only pause for about 5 minutes, then it will go to screen saver. After a few minutes of screen saver it will STOP the movie and when you come back you have to start the movie over and try to find where you were. This is a MAJOR annoyance!
4) It is missing DVD playback features like viewing different angles, etc.
It is my opinion that this player was released prematurely based on its feature set. However, Samsung did a great job on the Bluray compatibility & picture quality and the DVD upconversion quality. If you want a player for quality HiDef video and don't care about features this is a great player. However, if you want more features out of your player, you may want to hold out for later generation models.
If there were a lot of other players on the market right now that didn't have these same flaws, I would have rated this player much lower just based on features. However, I understand that Bluray is still in its infant stages of development and manufacturers are rushing products to market to compete (and hopefully win) with HD-DVD. Thus, I am not too upset with my investment in this model. But I also know that I will want to purchase another Bluray player before this one reaches the end of its life.
p.s. I have purchased several Bluray discs and also rented quite a few from Netflix and so far have not encountered one disc that this player will not play.
 BD 1400 Warning January 1, 2008
78 out of 84 found this review helpful
I've owned this BR player for 6 weeks. Its had problems loading some discs off and on, but with a firmware update most of them have eventually loaded and played. Yesterday it suddenly stopped loading Blu-Ray discs all togerther. DVD discs load and play.
I've searched the web, especially the excellent bluray.com website, and have noticed that most Blu-ray players have problems, but Samsung stands out for poor support. Before purchasing this player, or any other player, check out the manufacturer's support and factor that into your decision to purchase.
Nice player... but STILL PROFILE 1.0 - Beware! October 22, 2007
67 out of 83 found this review helpful
This player is very similar to the previous BD-P1200 which was not a bad player. But if you are planning to get a Blu-ray player, keep in mind that these players are still under the Profile 1.0 banner.
The profile 1.0 brings a basic set of features and leave other features available only on the future player profiles. Player profile 1.1 is effective on October 31st meaning that the newer players announced after such date must have the profile 1.1 (this player is already available so it is not profile 1.1). Player profile 2.0 - the final profile - has no date yet announced.
Like any High Definition technology, one cannot say this player is bad. It upconverts your standard definition DVDs nicely and will give you a list features that will make the delight of any AV enthusiast. It does output 1080p image and that alone is a great thing to see.
GOOD POINTS (something that can make you buy it)
-Upconversion of standard definition DVDs.
-Lan connection for online software updates.
-It supports HDMI 1.3.
-Price (compared to other Blu-ray stand alone players only).
BAD POINTS (something that will make you buy other Blu-ray model or go HD DVD)
-Still a player profile 1.0 (I'm not sure if it is possible to upgrade this player to profile 1.1). This is a half-developed minimum player profile. So it has no dual stream video decoding, for PiP and other advanced interactive functions (only available in HD DVD players for now).
-Region coding (if you only care for "Zone-A" discs, this may not be a problem for you. Otherwise you may try HD DVD which is a region free format).
-Price (compared to the cheaper PS3 and HD DVD players).
Still, for this price, this blu-ray player can be a good choice.
OR you'll want to go for the cheaper PS3, OR wait for a Profile 1.1/2.0 player to come out, OR take a look at a HD DVD player.
 All around great buy October 20, 2007
60 out of 73 found this review helpful
I have a Playstation 3 that has awesome picture quality for both Blu-Ray and upscaling of Standard DVD's since a software upgrade. We use this for our main HD TV in the family room. I needed another player for a second HD tv we just had hung in our bedroom. I waited for the BD-P1400 to become available since I already committed to the Blu-Ray format and wanted the latest technology available. I can not say enough about the sound quality that this player offers, it is unbelievable. The picture quality is excellent and on par with the Playstation 3. I am seriously considering purchasing a second BD-P1400 for our main set because of the outstanding sound.
The only problem with the player is if you stop viewing a movie and want to come back to it at another time. It does not remember where it left off, but either does the Playstation 3.
Great player especially for the money.
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