D4rk0n3 used our news submit to tell us about a bit of news concerning the first generation
Blu-ray player from Samsung. Apparenty, there have been complaints abbout the
picture and according to this report at High Def Digest, Samsung suspects the
unit may have a faulty scaling chip.
 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.
"Though Samsung has yet to issue any
formal statements regarding the apparent faulty chip, the company"s senior
vice president of marketing for its Audio and Video Products Group Jim
Sanduski confirmed to The Perfect Vision that the company is working to
fix the problem on future shipments of the BD-P1000, and also plans to
issue a firmware upgrade to correct the problem on current
players. |
At least the problem can be corrected in firmware, but,
I wonder how the early adopters are going to like the solution? You may read the
article in it's entirety by following this link to High Def Digest.
Source: High Def Digest
