Samsung gets official with BD-Live-ready BD-P2500 Blu-ray player
By Donald Melanson 
posted Aug 26th 2008 3:36PM
posted Aug 26th 2008 3:36PM
Rumors of Samsung's BD-Live-ready BD-P2500 Blu-ray player first started cropping up a few months ago, and the strikingly similar BD-P2550 just slipped out at Best Buy a few days ago, but if you like your Blu-ray news all official like, you'll be glad to know that Samsung has now finally actually talking about the player, and it's set to show it off at the big IFA show later this week. In addition to BD-Live support (which will apparently come in a future update), Samsung also confirms that the player packs the always-desirable Silicon Optix HQV video processing chip, and support for both Dolby TrueHD and DTS HD in addition to the usual non-HD formats. No firm word on a price just yet, but you can look for the official launch to happen in September. If that Best Buy slip is any indication, however, it seems likely that they could start showing up even sooner than that.
-$299.99 for a full featured BD player
-Bitstream out all audio codecs
-Decent load times (Equivalant to HD-A3 player times is good enough for me)
-Doesn't have issues playing all past, present, and future BDs.
Then they've got a sale!
Does it decode DTS Master and Dolby True HD in the player?
How about a firmware update for the BD-P1500? I'm still waiting for BD-Live support on mine.
Any word on price? And will this Samsung player work with my Onkyo receiver, unlike the HD-960 upscaler I have now?
"Any word on price?"
Ya, how about: too much.
"BD-Live ready"
I guess that's kind of like Windows Vista Capable.
Way to go Panny!
Again, this is the same as the unit at Best Buy. Buy Buy got a 30 day exclusive on their model. These will be 2.0 and BD Live when the update for them is ready.
Being live "ready" probably implies a firmware update and quite possibly a USB storage device too for downloaded content.