Got my Samsung BD-P1400 last night and boy was I excited!! Before this review, let me start by saying that this is the first and only Blu-ray player that I have owned and that I may not make some of the comparisons you are looking for. If I don't, just lemme know! I also want to say that I have NOT upgraded to the latest firmware yet as my modem is not near a tv.
Picture
Excellent, duh...... inky blacks, great contrast, detail, everything you expect from Blu
Design
Wonderful looking player, the best yet I think. Face is very open, not cluttered, and the piano gloss finish rocks. Good remote too.
Load Times
Wonderful. I have 5 movies so far and they all loaded in approx. 15 seconds. Then there was the new F4 Silver Surfer.... This is a BD+ title from Fox and many have had complaints about its load time. It took my player about 90 seconds to load it, but after that there were no problems. Let me say again that this is right out of the box, no firmware update yet!
Sound
I have not played with the sound much as I don't have my Onkyo TX-SR705 yet. I did notice that there is an option to set the speakers from small to large in analog 5.1 out mode. There are other discussions and reports of people getting full DTS-MA bitstream from this player (after firmware upgrade) on other threads and forums. I'm getting very anxious to try this out!
Others
The rest of the stuff is pretty standard. 128x max forward, unit resumes same position in the movie even after powered off, pretty good response times from remote keys, etc.
All in all, this is a dynamite player for $415 (amazon). With the firmware upgrade, this guy will do just about anything that you can expect from a blu-ray player right now!!
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