Posted by Rich on 01/16/61 11:53

Tarkus wrote:
> Samsung's Blu-ray Player Reportedly Has Faulty Chip
> Wed Jul 19, 2006 at 05:46 PM ET
>
> After suffering weeks of negative buzz over the picture quality of its
> first-generation Blu-ray disc player, Samsung now says an internal scaler
> chip may be to blame.
>
> As reported earlier today by A/V magazine The Perfect Vision, Sony exec
> Don Eklund first brought the issue to Samsung's attention after noticing
> that the image quality produced by Samsung's BD-P1000 player "...did not
> match the quality of the master tapes from which the Blu-ray titles were
> encoded."
>
> Samsung engineers later determined that "the noise-reduction circuit in
> the player's Genesis scaler chip was enabled, causing the picture to
> soften significantly."
>

Typical Samsung sewage. Whatever happened to JAPANESE players?

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