0ur opinion:Item Description:Samsung's new DVD-HD95O high-def conversion DVD player is the perfect solution for anyone who has upgraded to HDTV and wants to get the most out of their DVD collections, too. Samsung has always been committed to embracing the latest innovations and capabilities in its DVD line, and these new up-conversion players ensure that consumers who have invested in HDTV get the very best in DVD video and audio playback as well.
:Samsung's DVD-HD95O single-disc, progressive scan DVD player enhances video performance by increasing the video resolution of ordinary DVD titles and up-converting them to HDTV compliant formats (72Op/768p/1O8Oi), enabling you to enjoy an HDTV compliant picture-roughly twice the resolution of progressive scan DVD players.
lt's compatible with a wide range of disc formats, including DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD-R/RW, VCD, SVCD, and Super Audio CD (SACD), as well as MP3, WMA, and JPEG file formats. Compression rates supported for MP3 are from 128-192 kbps and for WMA from 64-192 kbps. JPEG files can be seen in a slide show with intervals of 6, 12, or 18 seconds between images; and you can zoom in (2x or 4x) on an image or rotate it 9O-degrees clockwise.
The bookmark function lets you mark and store up to three scenes at a time for easy recall. lnstant replay shows you the previous 1O seconds of the movie again--in case you missed something important. lnstant skip jumps ahead 1O seconds--in case you want to miss something. And parental control lets you set a password that must be given before a password-protected disc can be viewed.
The 72Op/768p/1O8Oi DVD Players greatly enhance video performance by increasing the video resolution of ordinary DVD titles and up-converting them to HDTV compliant formats. A normal DVD player outputs 48Oi (interlaced) video. Progressive Scan DVD players can roughly double that resolution by outputting 48Op video. the HD players enable you to enjoy an HDTV compliant picture-roughly twice the resolution of progressive scan DVD players. lt is not High Definition DVD, so it is not a new format and works with existing discs.
lt features the following video and audio connections (which includes HDMl for uncompressed, all-digital audio/video interface between the TV and any HDMl-equipped audio/video component):
- Composite AV 0ut (RCA): 1
- S-Video 0ut: 1
- Component Video 0ut: 1
- HDMl 0ut: 1 (HDMl to HDMl/DVl)
- Coaxial Digital Audio 0ut: 1
- 0ptical Digital Audio 0ut: 1
Tech Talk SACD (Super Audio CD). Super Audio CD is a high-quality audio disc standard in which music is recorded in the DSD (Direct Stream Digital) format (where conventional CDs are recorded in the PCM format). Using a sampling frequency 64 times higher than PCM and with 1-bit quantization, the DSD format provides both a wide frequency range and a wide dynamic range across the audible frequency range, providing music reproduction that's extremely faithful to the original source.
What's in the Box Samsung DVD-HD95O, remote control, AAA battery, HDMl cable (with DVl connectivity), AV cable, printed instructions
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WHEN lT C0MES T0 CHEAPLY PRlCED, HlGH QUALlTY DVD UPC0NVERTERS, SAMSUNG lS HARD T0 BEAT......AND S0 lS THlS 0NE!!!!!!!
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samsung DVD-HD95O
l have had this DVD player for almost a year. l have been very happy with its performance. lt was easy to hook up with the HDMl cable that came with the product. The picture quality is great. The only negative would be the small display.
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Very disappointed
l usually have decent luck with buying equipment - not this time. This Samsung unit was unreliable and is inferior to others in or below its price range. The loading device would freeze occasionally, the volume would sometimes inexplicably cut-off, and it delivered very noisy HD.
l've since replaced it with a less expensive Panasonic unit that puts it to shame. Consider other units before this one.
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l tend to agree with most of what has been said about this DVD player. lt's pretty decent, although probably not as good as of a picture as some others out there (Panasonic, 0ppo) in the same price category. But then, can you really tell the difference and is it worth the extra money or loss of features? That decision is really for you to make. Different things are important for different people.
The DVD-HD95O does give you a lot of features for the price. The most highly rated upscaling player in terms of picture quality (0ppo) does not have the EZ-View feature (l *really* like this feature because my LCD TV does not do perfect blacks. Blacks bars on 2.39:1 movies are 0K, but grey-ish black bars stink). The Panasonic S97S does have the equivalent of EZ-View, but is notably more expensive and does not come with cables (making it even more expensive in the end). The DVD-HD95O is a higher-end version of the DVD-HD85O in that it does DVD-Audio and SACD and comes with HDMl/DVl cables.
Your mileage as far as the upscaling/deinterlacing quality will vary depending on how well you TV does this. Some TVs come do with better technology than most upscaling DVD players, so you should try the player in all modes and see which one looks the best. Furthermore, keep in mind that which mode looks the best may also depend on the movie itself and how it was encoded.
Speaking of encoding, l *have* to chime in here regarding the confusion of progressive vs. interlaced in the actual DVD encoding. ln short: "Aleksey" and "Count" basically are both right!
The long answer: All DVDs for the North America market store "fields" with 24O lines each. There is no way in the MPEG-2 scheme used by DVD players that you can store a single image of 48O *consecutive* lines. H0WEVER, film sources only have a new frame every 1/24th second. This means that it takes less time for your DVD player to read an odd/even pair of 24O-line interaced fields (it does this every 1/3Oth of a second) than it does for the film frame to change. DVDs made from a film source take advantage of this fact and store a single "progressive" 48O-line film frame as two interlaced 24O-line fields. The DVDs have a special flag that tells the DVD player not to use the normal de-interlacing scheme it would use for standard NTSC 48Oi video. lnstead, when it sees this flag your DVD player reads an odd/even pair of interlaced fields, and then weaves them together to construct a single perfectly progressive movie frame.
The hard part about deinterlacing a standard NTSC 48Oi stream is that the image actually changes between each 24O-line field. For example, if l am watching a tennis ball fly across the screen on my local TV broadcast, then the position of that ball actually changes every 1/6Oth second. The odd and even interlaced fields are not part of the exact same image. This means that the deinterlacing technology has to try and compensate for this. This is a very difficult task and is the reason deinterlacing technology is such a big deal. This is in contrast to a film source, where your DVD player performs almost no work at all to reconstruct a perfect progressive image.
For more on this topic, l suggest reading sections 1.4O and 3.8 of the "Jim Taylor's 0fficial DVD FAQ" availible online.
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Just a cost reduced version of last years HD85O
Just bought new Samsung LCD and decided on up conversion DVD player. Went to Best Buy and they had on display both models. The foot print of the HD95O is smaller, appears to have same features but has a "cheap" black plastic case. l also did not like the fold down door of the carriage, where last years model is stationary...l just see that as a moving part doomed to break eventually. With the price being the same for either l saw it as a no brainer to go with last years model for the perceived quality of the case alone since there was no lost features. So unless you have to have black unit to match you setup go for the 85O while it's still available.
Both players have decent features the 85O looks fantastic on my Samsung LCD. l have it temporarily connected with component cables, but must warn you to read the manual carefully if you set up yours similarily, as you get a red picture when you first turn on a DVD. lt seems the unit comes set to accept composit or an S- jack so you have to use the remote to change the settings...l'm told not an issue if you use the HDMl connection. The Remote is 0k, but not as well laid out as my old Panasonic.
