Are there any owners of Samsung BDP1600 blu-ray player in he Forum? Please give your opinion of this player. I saw it on sale in Best Denki, KLCC for RM599. Is it worth buying?

RM599 not a bad offer. Find below a review [not my own review]. Review for EngagedHD

The Good

* USB port in front and back is something that should be on every Blu-ray player.
* Remote is a definite improvement over the BD-P1500's.
* No problems with HDMI audio sync and bitstreaming works great on all codecs.
* To eject the tray when the player is off only takes 2 seconds.
* It only took 54 seconds to load a BD-J title (Ratatouille).
* The buttons on the front look and feel cool when you use them.
* It consumes less than 1 watt in standby, 13 watts at the home screen, 19 watts playing movie, and 14 watts playing Pandora.
* The sounds that the player makes for Touchkey and Power can be disabled.
* LEDs on front are adjustable as well as the on screen scrub bar.
* There are lights to indicates when USB, HDMI and 24p are in use on front panel.
* Dynamic compression can be enabled/disabled for those who don't like loud explosions -- not us.
* The bitstream re-encode setting is great if your AVR doesn't do TrueHD.
* Internal codec decoding sounds great, and useful too if you like PiP (BonusView).
* Network test is a great feature if you're having network issues.
* Pandora is easy to setup and sounds pretty good, but there aren't any visualizations or a screen saver.
* Making a new station on Pandora is easy and something you would actually use.
* We like it when the player features a screen saver.
* At less than $300 we really like the price.

The Bad

* Remote feels flimsy and isn't back-lit.
* Buttons are on the front are under the flip down door.
* No coax digital output.
* Delay between songs via Pandora could be shorter.
* You have to stop the disc to change settings like PCM to bitstream, resume works good though.
* Main menu navigation is annoying.
* Player should have an easy way to tell which codec it is decoding.

The Ugly

* The door on the front gets in the way, especially if you want to use an IR blaster.
* No discrete IR codes.
* There is no built in storage for BD Live.
* Loud fan, not as loud as a 360, but can be heard from across the room when not inside furniture.
* At $80, the Wifi dongle costs twice what it should.


The flip down door
We're not sure who thought it would be cool to put a flip down door on this player, but they were wrong. This door does nothing but get in the way, and to make things worse, the player looks terrible when the door is down. If we did own this player, we'd probably figure out a way to take it off completely, but even then you're left with an ugly player.

Conclusion

Although the BD-P1600 isn't our favorite player there is a lot to like about it, and more importantly, it is an improvement over the BD-P1500. The best part is that even though it is better than last year's, you're going to pay less for it too. We really wish Samsung would do some simple things though, like add discrete IR codes, built in storage for BD Live -- what's a gig of flash memory cost these days anyways? -- and price it's Wifi dongle appropriately, but no one's perfect. Ultimately we are very satisfied with the feature list in this entry level player, especially since internet streaming features like Netflix and Pandora were about a $100 upgrade in the last generation of players.
At this point though, it is still too early to predict how it will fare against the other new entry level players, but the fact that Samsung had its new model to market first should speak volumes for the company's ability to continue to be the first to get the latest technologies to market.

The best part is that it plays MKV, AVI, MP3, etc using USB - basically can use it as a media player too.

support NTFS format ka?

Are you sure can play MKV? Can you please provide the link to say that can play MKV? Does it play only on Burned disc or can it play on USB HDD as well?

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Never mind I googled and it seemed this player got lots of problems with video files playback.

This post has been edited by Ngto: Apr 13 2010, 10:17 AM

yup

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Added on April 13, 2010, 10:03 amI bought it last year - think the link is in samsung webpage - I have not tested burned disc but I used it to play files using mypassport.

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Added on April 13, 2010, 10:10 amok found it - but realised this is already a very old news... anyway I found out about it when upgrading the player's firmware last year.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10345260-1.html

This post has been edited by wuanzi: Apr 13 2010, 10:10 AM

I read some complaints that it doesn't play x264 MKV files? Can give your feeback on this. Did you managed to play them?

Btw, have you tried playing DVD movie saved to USB Hard Disk? Will all the menus function poperly and can be selected?

This post has been edited by Ngto: Apr 13 2010, 10:22 AM

nope, never tried playing DVD-ripped files using this player. Tried playing some mkv files from a USB-connected WD MyPassport - no issues at all, but I remember once trying to play a remux ts file and it can't play. And I think it plays an AVCHD-finalised disc too.

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Added on April 13, 2010, 11:47 am I think a lot of people previously opted for Philips' ??3600 - because of price issue (I think the cheapest) - but just top up a bit would get us an extra feature of playing mkv, avi, etc through a USB drive is something that is way more worth than the price difference (even though the wifi thing is like a scam coz only a samsung wifi dongle can be used and it is expensive - anyway, we can just use an old wireless router as a bridge to connect to youtube)

A review on its quality -
http://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/Samsung_...sc_Player.shtml

This post has been edited by wuanzi: Apr 13 2010, 11:47 AM

Can you do me a favour. Could you just pop in a DVD (single layer will do) into your PC Drive and copy the contents to a USB thumb drive and then try playing it on the Samsung player. Will the Menus show up and be selected with the remote?

will try but no promise. Just curious.. as you seem to deem this feature quite indispensable, why is it so?

I tested some media players, they can't scale DVD files as good as my stand alone 3-4year old Sony HDMI DVD player using DVD Disc. Media players might be good at playing High Definition video, but when it comes to SD, it doesn't really shine.

So I was hoping the Samsung is as good as my old Sony, but using USB to play. I have a large collection of DVD which I want to transfer all to HDD.

Btw, I have just tested at Best Denki, it can't play DVD Video through USB. It can play AVI files though.

This post has been edited by Ngto: Apr 13 2010, 09:40 PM