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Great picture, good sound, dreadful build quality
- Good sound
- Great picture
- Buy the extended warranty on this model
- Be wary of Samsung software upgrades
- Dreadful software configuration
We bought a Samsung BD-1250 in November 2009 when they first came out alongside a 40" LED TV and thought the picture quality was fantastic and the sound pretty good. The Samsung TV/Blu-Ray Player integration is a bit clunky as are the controls - scene selection isn't always available and sometimes when paused the player goes back to the start of the disk. However, we then found out that Samsung's software configuration management is awful. In 2010 we purchased Avatar, which didn't wouldn't play and we had to upgrade the software from Samsung's website, this fried the motherboard and it had to be replaced (luckily under warranty). Since then the player was intermittently not playing Blu-Rays, the sound kept going out of sync with the pictures, some Blu-Rays stopped in the middle and wouldn't restart or the sound would go. We took it back to Samsung's repair centre and they had it for 5 weeks while Samsung created new software version (we went from v 13 to v 71). It has now come back and we've had it for 2 weeks and the player just stops intermittently and goes onto standby for no apparent reason. When we switch it back on the machine has pictures but no sound and you have to load another Blu-Ray to get the sound back. All of this seem to be down to very poor software on the Blu-Ray player and I fear having to perform any further upgrades as it may break the machine again. We will purchase a Panasonic, Sony or LG instead. Be warned about this player.
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