When buying a one-box system at this sort of price, you should expect to make sacrifices, and in the case of the HT-BD1252 build quality and sound performance take the biggest hits. However, lower your expectations and you might just be surprised by what it can do – action set pieces are a hoot and there’s a decent amount of sonic detail to be heard.
And there are other reasons why you shouldn’t dismiss the Samsung out of hand – its feature list is impressive even if you don’t go for the wireless options, it’s easy to use (apart from network setup), loads Blu-ray discs in under 30 seconds and displays them with all the panache of a dedicated player. So if your budget is tight and you’re willing to accept its shortcomings go for it – otherwise we suggest you keep saving for a decent separates system.Read full review
Overall
8/10
By Danny Phillips
Reviewed 21 January 2010
Updated 07 February 2011