Samsung Announces Next Generation Blu-ray Player: BD-P1200

Post by **Shane** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 10:10 pm

Samsung Electronics today unveiled its second-generation Blu-ray player for the home entertainment industry. Samsung expects that the BD-P1200 player will help the company stay a step ahead of the cutting-edge optical media industry.

One of the BD-P1200 player's key new features is its Hollywood Quality Video (HQV) processor, which is a powerful unit similar to those used by Hollywood production studios. With its HQV processor, the BD-P1200 player offers true 1080i to 1080p HD de-interlacing, so it can deliver the best HD images possible...

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Richard · Post by **Richard** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 10:47 pm

One of the BD-P1200 player's key new features is its Hollywood Quality Video (HQV) processor, which is a powerful unit similar to those used by Hollywood production studios. With its HQV processor, the BD-P1200 player offers true 1080i to 1080p HD de-interlacing, so it can deliver the best HD images possible, even from non-Blu-ray formats.

Sure hope that is a typo since the stream on the disc is 1080P24 not 1080I. Their first generation used a decoder that only supported 1080I so it was deinterlaced and 2/3 pulldown processed to provide a 1080P60 output.

I do see there is no statement of 1080P 24 frame...

Post by **Shane** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 4:09 am

Richard wrote:Sure hope that is a typo since the stream on the disc is 1080P24 not 1080I.

It looks like they're talking about support for formats other than Blu-ray, yes? So this would apply to DVD (480i), etc.

- Shane

Richard · Post by **Richard** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 7:35 pm

Good point but dunno Shane...

With its HQV processor, the BD-P1200 player offers true 1080i to 1080p HD de-interlacing,

I sure hope that is a typo...