(Sold Out) Samsung BD-P1500 Blu-ray Player + 8 Blu-Ray Movies for $137.55 Shipped

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(Sold Out) Samsung BD-P1500 Blu-ray Player + 8 Blu-Ray Movies for $137.55 Shipped

Amazon.com has the Samsung BD-P1500 Blu-ray Disc Player + 8 Blu-Ray movies for a good price.

Pricegrabber Price for Player Alone : $209.95 ~ $279.98 Shipped

1. Click here and add the Blu-Ray Player + 8 Blu-Ray DVDs.
(Many Blu-Ray titles are $16.99)

2. Coupon Price : -$200 | Code : SAMWB2OO

Final Price : $137.55 Shipped
 
Well, not a collection of the greatest movies in the world but I went ahead and purchased the package. I'm thinking ebay will see the majority of my picks.

Good find!
 
Pulled the trigger on this...

I pulled the trigger on this deal, you have to be careful which Blue Ray DVDs you select, as the coupon is good for a straight $200 discount. I choose a few of the more expensive titles (Planet Earth on Blue Ray is $60, for example), but also a few of the lower-priced DVDs (around $18) - most are around $25, so 8 free discs are possible, depending on your preferances.
 
Don't forget

This disc player comes without either an HDMI or Component cable, which you'll need to get maximal benefit with your TV and player. From the Amazon page for this player:

What kind of cables, connections do I need to have to make Blu-ray work?
You will need either a 3-wire analog component (typically labeled Y, Pr and Pb) or an HDMI digital video connection between the BD player and the TV. The HDMI connection is preferable. Not only will it provide better image quality, but it will pass along higher resolution audio and control information, as well. You may get limited up-conversion options with standard DVDs when using the component connection.​

Amazon has a $10 HDMI cable that looks good.
 
Careful...

Only BD 1.1 compliant, 2.0 being fully compliant. From Amazon:

What does Profile 1.0, 1.1, 2.0 mean?
Blu-ray's specifications for video are broken into three profiles, each with its own set of hardware and software requirements. Profile 1.0 gave hardware manufacturers a grace period to create players that were capable of Blu-ray video playback, but didn't need to meet the final standard profile requirements. This grace period ended October 31, 2007. These players, while not able to take advantage of all of Blu-ray's promised extra content, will provide full 1080p video playback.

Profile 1.1, also known as BonusView, makes certain requirements mandatory: picture-in-picture, secondary audio mixing, a minimum of 256MB of memory (built-in or removable), and the incorporation of a virtual file system. Players created and sold after October 31, 2007 are required to meet the Profile 1.1 specification, and therefore will take advantage of 1.1-enabled bonus materials on certain BD discs.

BD-Live (Profile 2.0) makes mandatory all parts of Profile 1.1, but increases the memory requirement to 1GB and adds the hardware requirement of a network connection. This specification enables the even-more interactive web-based bonus material found on discs that provide such content.
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Just jumped in on this as an Xmas gift for my father. He wont know the difference re: 1.1 1.2 2.0 etc. but the 1080p will look awesome on his sony XBR4 52"

Yes you need cables, this has been the case for any video device I have ever purchased - you never want to use the cheap ones that are bundled in the box anyway.

A $10 HDMI cable on Amazon or Ebay will work perfect.
 
I didn't see many inexpensive movies available, but figured I would get movies I wanted instead of "just" going for the least expensive deal possible. Still, ending up at $175 for the player and 8 movies when I would have been willing to pay that for just the player is a deal I'm ok with. Still, I would have liked it if the movie selection had been a bit better.
 
i already have a ps3 so i have no need, but i got a few friends to jump on this. even though the player isn't 2.0 yet, samsung has great customer service and should provide an update in a firmware release. maybe they already have! insane deal for those who have don't have blu ray, and even if you don't like the movies, just pick out a number of duplicates you know u can sell on ebay/amazon/half.com.
 
My order came to $181, but I ordered the movies I wanted and the movies I thought my wife would want. The price alone is better than a ebay price on just the player. I hope I bought a good player. I have not researched them at all, I just "pulled the trigger" because of the price and the fact I just bought my first HD TV last night. Keep up the good work (deals)!
 
n2vip said:
This disc player comes without either an HDMI or Component cable, which you'll need to get maximal benefit with your TV and player. From the Amazon page for this player:

What kind of cables, connections do I need to have to make Blu-ray work?
You will need either a 3-wire analog component (typically labeled Y, Pr and Pb) or an HDMI digital video connection between the BD player and the TV. The HDMI connection is preferable. Not only will it provide better image quality, but it will pass along higher resolution audio and control information, as well. You may get limited up-conversion options with standard DVDs when using the component connection.​

Amazon has a $10 HDMI cable that looks good.
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Thats odd since the HDMI cable provides no better video quality than component video. And most folks with Blue Ray and HDTV aren't gonna play a movie through cheesy TV speakers, so the fact the HDMI has audio is a *dont care*..
 
A few points...

I never said HDMI provides a better picture (the quote is from Amazon/Samsung - I personally believe that an HDMI connection is better than component connection, if only because it removes two conversion steps digital from the BL DVD to analog for the component connection, then analog from the component connection to the digital television. Will most people recognize the difference, probably not), I said you'll need either cable, and that this player doesn't include an HDMI cable.

As for the audio, you are correct, if you run the palyer right in to your TV set, but if you run it through an A/V Receiver, then audio through the HDMI (thus audio into the amplifier) is a good thing.

The point of detailing the HDMI cable issue is that local big-box retailers have been known to charge $100 for the same cable (I'm looking at you Best Buy!).
 
I think this is done as I don't see anymore offered for sale by Amazon. The coupon only works for players and titles sold by Amazon. Or am I missing something? :thinking:
 
Sold Out

It looks like Amazon sold out already. I guess it really was a deal that was too good...
 
I got in first thing the morning on this. Great deal on a decent player. Not top of the line but great as a gift for dad! Decent selection of movies to start his collection with. Mine came to $138.50 delivered. And I have seen free super saver delivieried made 3 days from order date!

Pick up an HDMI from Amazon or eBay - $10-$15 max and you are good to go. I would never use whatever cables are bundled in the box (if any) as they are at best lamp cord quality.
 
Also there will be a firmware update to 2.0 standard in the near future according to Samsung, if there is not one already!
 
Yikes!

n2vip said:
I never said HDMI provides a better picture (the quote is from Amazon/Samsung - I personally believe that an HDMI connection is better than component connection, if only because it removes two conversion steps digital from the BL DVD to analog for the component connection, then analog from the component connection to the digital television.


The point of detailing the HDMI cable issue is that local big-box retailers have been known to charge $100 for the same cable (I'm looking at you Best Buy!).
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DIGITAL conversions are also don't-cares since they are lossless. In some cases that's not true, as in a 24 to 16-bit down-conversion, but I've never read of anything like that in TV signals. The biggest HD loss is the 1080p vs 1080i signals- the public is loosing 1/2 the picture resolution and most don't even know it!

:argh:

As far as the cable costs, I totally agree. BB and CC and others' prices are astronomical. They are the *soft-drink $$-maker* of the hi-tech stores. I've seen 3' USB cables selling for like $30, and even more amazing- people PAYING THAT for them!!

I pick up all sorts of monster and geeksquad hi-quality cables at yardsales for, typically, $1, and toss them in the rubbermaid box. Last January, apparently BB donated a pallet of cables to our Goodwill- I bought firewire, USB, etc etc for like $1 each. I have a nice inventory now.

Then when I or a pal needs one I grab one from the box instead of paying BB prices.
 
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Thanks but

I'll wait a few months when these are $49....
 
sleeper22 said:
$49... what do you mean?
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umm....:suspicious: At one point DVD players were rediculously expensive, so were VCRs before them, etc.

BlewRay crap will come down in price too, as not too many folks are very willing to shell out $30+ for the same movies they already own to get a marginally improved video quality. I personally see no problem with my regular DVD player and do not intend to make Sony richer.

Personally, I couldn't be happier if this format flopped yet again, leaving Sony with yet another "FAIL" item in their legendary catalog of failures.

p.s. Looks like BlewRay may be one step closer to being yet another footnote in a long list of Titanic Technologies: :tongue:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/pos...rs-in-face-of-tough-economy-hd-downloads.html

Nice!

:shot:
 
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