Best buy has this Samsung BD-P1600 Blu-Ray player on sale for $199.99 w/ $50 GC Also there is 10% off coupon out there (please search) - make it approx $130 plus tax.
Message edited by: fongch on 2009-10-04 14:37:59 CDT
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I have this and it is an excellent player. Samsung upgrades firmware often, and recently added the ability to play Blockbuster net-rentals and Youtube videos, as well as Netflix and Pandora.
Doubtful. Not many people would have the internet bandwidth to receive it.
1080p is ~356Mb/s uncompressed vs 720p's ~158Mb/s. Even highly compressed you'd still be looking at something between 6 and 14Mb/s, depending on the content and compression schemes.
Netflix isnt even putting out 720p as far as I know.
fongch said:Best buy has this Samsung BD-P1600 Blu-Ray player on sale for $199.99 w/ $50 GC Also there is 10% off coupon out there (please search) - make it approx $130 plus tax.Can you use the $50 GC on the blu ray player itself? If not, then you still pay $180 for the player and THEN you can get $50 of other stuff. I think the title needs to be edited.
sklar said:Doubtful. Not many people would have the internet bandwidth to receive it.
1080p is ~356Mb/s uncompressed vs 720p's ~158Mb/s. Even highly compressed you'd still be looking at something between 6 and 14Mb/s, depending on the content and compression schemes.
Netflix isnt even putting out 720p as far as I know.
Netflix does stream some titles in HD (at least on my TiVo HD). It's better than regular streams, but not as clean as a blu-ray.
You're going to have a hard time using the 10% coupon because it's only good towards regular priced merchandise... $199 is a sale price... Still a good deal with or without the extra 10%...
I have this Blu-Ray player and it is awesome. It DOES NOT come with the wireless adapter. One way around this is to use a low cost wireless router and turn it into a bridge. Then plug the Blu-Ray player into the router...
Fliptech said:sklar said:Doubtful. Not many people would have the internet bandwidth to receive it.
1080p is ~356Mb/s uncompressed vs 720p's ~158Mb/s. Even highly compressed you'd still be looking at something between 6 and 14Mb/s, depending on the content and compression schemes.
Netflix isnt even putting out 720p as far as I know.
Netflix does stream some titles in HD (at least on my TiVo HD). It's better than regular streams, but not as clean as a blu-ray.
Looks like they do offer some titles in 720p, but they're encoding at ~2.5-3.5Mb/s @24fps, which is about 8x the compression level of a blu-ray and less than half the usual rate of a DVD.
I find the SD stuff looks like VHS HQ quality level and the "HD" stuff looks slightly fuzzier and has slightly more artifacting than a regular dvd.
Even when watching HD, my wife (no video aficionado) can walk through the room and say "Oh, you're watching something on Netflix". Observably not as good as Directv's 720p HD and far less than our blu-ray player.
Message edited by: sklar on 2009-10-04 16:37:15 CDT
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Message edited by: ajay71 on 2009-10-04 16:55:34 CDT
$199.99 may be the regular price. i don't see anything about this being a "sale" price on the website. the $50 GC is just a bonus and should have nothing to do with the final price of the dvd player. i'm going out to see if i can use the 10% coupon i got in the mail from BB.
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