Thread: Samsung-1080p7 DVD Player

With the coming of Blu-Ray and what¬not, there's a large possibility that most people, especially the geeky ones, have pushed their old DVD collection into the darkened corners of their room to make room for the new spinning boys. However, Samsung, despite being at the forefront of this mad disc race especially in south-east Asia, has decided to give those old guys a brand new look. Their DVD-1080p7 is a standard DVD player with a slight twist; it boosts your standard DVDs to true-HD 1080p resolution.

OUT OF THE BOX:- Well, there seems to be a couple of occurrences across this player that brings it quite close in aesthetics to their Blu-Ray brothers. The tilted front panel being one of the most prominent. However, the silver transport dial rather than the rear-illuminating blue dial of the BD-P range constantly reminds you that this player is still a little classical in its technology. Its slimness and weightlessness tells you that classical technology doesn't always mean outdated, such as is the case here.
TECHNOLOGY:- Starting with its USP, the 1080p7 can actually render a 1080p, Tru¬HD quality video stream from the HDMI port dug into the scarcely populated back panel. Plus, 1080p isn't the only resolution it can up-scale a DVD's 720i's signal
into. There's 780p and 1080i as well, just in case you've managed to get yourself a digital television without true-HD support. And since Samsung has given this technology all they've got. you can expect this feature to not be a let-down.

All of this is done with the help of a 108M Hz video decoder that also gives the player the very necessary ability to play DivX, JPEG and MP3 files. Judging by what we've seen in previous Samsung players, this multi-format compatibility is something they've taken very seriously. Some of the most scratched, badly encoded DivX
CDs that couldn't be read by any other player in our studio were whisked through when played back in a Samsung player. There is one downer here and that's the absence of a USB port.

Nowadays, people have really gotten into the pen drives and little MP3 players for information storage and most DVD players are coming equipped with USB ports for this very reason. But this physical deficiency can Display), which is marvelous and very efficiently designed. One can browse through the player's configuration settings with simple navigational routes highlighted atop the light-biue screen. quite easily be forgotten with one look at the OSD (On-Screen Display), which is marvelous and very efficiently designed. One can browse through the player's configuration settings with simple navigational routes highlighted atop the light-biue screen.