Samsung 3D Blu-ray Players Don't Work

[blurayjunkie]

Supposedly Samsung 3D Blu-ray players currently on sale at Best Buy don't work in regards to 3D content.

Consumers ready to jump on the 3D bandwagon may want to wait... at least in regards to Samsung's new 3D Blu-ray players. Reports are beginning to surface that the company's 3D Blu-ray players currently up for sale at Best Buy aren't working. Samsung may be forced to recall the devices and offer a program or firmware to modify current 3D Blu-ray players residing in consumer homes.

Of course, it's hard to test the new technology thanks to a lack of 3D Blu-ray movies on the market. However testing is currently underway with 3D Blu-ray movies--those compliant with industry standards--that are now being prepared for mass distribution. While it seems that the movies play normally on the 3D Blu-ray players, the 3D aspect does not.

The problem is that Samsung's 3D Blu-ray players hit the market before the Blu-ray Disc Association issued its final certification specs. As Hollywood in HiDef reports, products released now by any company not "intimately" engaged in the day-to-day revisions and tweaks of the format will be guessing at the final approved standard. In this case, Samsung guessed incorrectly, leaving the 3D aspect useless.

A Samsung spokesperson told the site that the company is in the process "of finalizing full certification at the authorized testing center." The next step is for the BDA to provide manufacturers with test discs of the new and final 3D specification. Samsung will use these discs to confirm certification. “Samsung is confident that the new 3D Blu-ray player will pass certification once the process is complete," the spokesperson added. Samsung also said that current 3D Blu-ray players on the market should pass certification as well despite previous reports.

Samsung is expected to make a big 3D announcement today, so stay tuned.

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Samsung-...news-6060.html

[Sonny]

Sammy for the win...AGAIN!!! no hard feelings guys.

[steve1971]

Originally Posted by Sonny

Sammy for the win...AGAIN!!! no hard feelings guys.

Samsung for the win....Again????? I wouldnt call it a win when your 3D players dont work.

[42041]

What a surprise, more rushed buggy products from a lousy company.

[P@t_Mtl]

Originally Posted by 42041

What a surprise, more rushed buggy products from a lousy company.

Microsoft?

[quetzalcoatl]

Since I lived through Samsung and their crappy blu-ray players early in the cycle and not gving support for them I swore them off at that time.

[Sonny]

Originally Posted by steve1971

Samsung for the win....Again????? I wouldnt call it a win when your 3D players dont work.

That was my point. I was being sarcastic....

[Chordata]

Dumb question alert:

There are no 3D movies out currently, correct?

Oh, and massive fail by Samsung in their hurry to be the first in market.

[Twitch9]

it's all a big waste of time, 3D won't will fail more miserable than betamax even know betamax was better than VHS, after more studies are done on the effects of 3D to the eyes and the human brain this will eventually be pulled from the market

[Blu-Dog]

Originally Posted by blurayjunkie

Supposedly Samsung 3D Blu-ray players currently on sale at Best Buy don't work in regards to 3D content.
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Samsung-...news-6060.html

Looks like they fixed it, or figured out the problem. It might have been the content.

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Samsung-...news-6119.html

They're stocking these things at a couple of my local Best Buy stores. I would wait before buying into these things, though.