Samsung's 2009 Blu-ray player lineup officially priced

When Samsung's 2009 Blu-ray player lineup was outed at CES this year, all pricing and release date information was conveniently omitted. At long last, Sammy has pushed out the details we've been waiting for at its Spring Fever event in New York City. Granted, the BD-P3600 and BD-P1600 are already on store shelves for $399.99 and $299.99, respectively, but we figured it prudent to pass along those official numbers straight from the source. Of note, we're also told that the ultrathin BD-P4600 will indeed be coming in April for $499.99, and if Best Buy's website is to be believed, it'll be April 19th if we're talking specifics.

Samsung's 2009 Blu-ray player lineup

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 31st 2009 1:42PM]

Interesting, but your gallery is useless if you don't tell which model number it is...
I like the non square one, but I'm not sure the price and model number...

Could you provide this info please ?

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 31st 2009 2:00PM]

there are two differant non square ones...

the square one is the 1600
the one that gets wider as it gets near the top in the first picture on the left is the 3600
and the thinner more rectangle but oval one with the red accents is the 4600

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 31st 2009 4:26PM]

Yikes!!! Nothing I would be proud of having on display at home. It's super ugly. Looks like a used, sucked on bonbon.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 1st 2009 1:52AM]

SO! Samsung says that the P3600 has the Silicon Optix Reon chip (the only reason to look at any of these and last confirmed in the P2500/2550). The reviewers, pundents, forums, tech mags . . . all say no. That the Reon, which makes DVD upscaling near Blu-Ray quality and upgrades the Netflix streaming dynamically, was traded for WiFi or eliminated for cost reasons. For $400, I expect the Reon or one of its better big brothers onboard. The spec sheet for the 2500 shows a HQV chip (listed as the Reon) and makes a point of the quality. The 3600 spec sheet only depicts how DVD is, in their eyes, identical to BD, but does not say how it's done.

OK! So what's the real story?!!!! Anyone know? I can't imagine Samsung being that stupid and make that type of quality change that singled them out on the market. But then . . . . .

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P.S.
AND WHAT WERE THEY THINKING with the new form factors. Maybe they did go nutz and trashed the product line. It wouldn't be teh first time that East did not meet West.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 1st 2009 1:16PM]

Put me down for liking the look of the 4600. Looks like a dust magnet, but I still like the thin red look.