Posted by GMAN on 01/16/40 11:53

In article <1153433061.648519.155500@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, "Rich" <rander3127@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>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?
>
Cheap ass consumers "happened" to japanese players. Its when we all started
to demand $25 dvd players and throw away tv's and vcr's that this happened.

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