Samsung: BDP 1500 Blu ray Player and streaming netflix
BDP 1500 Blu ray Player and streaming netflix
by JAZZSAP - 11/30/08 9:16 PMHi I just upgraded the FW on the Blu Ray player BDP-1500. I did this through the ethernet, added in a 4 GB USB drive and apparently all is fine. As expected I now see USB on the DVD player and I can see BD live in the menu. I have selected "all" option.
Now it should be compatible as per the link below and I should have BD live FIrmware 2.0 and should be able to play streaming movies from Netflix.
However not so fast. I can not see any way of getting to internet and stream movies.
Please advise soon
http://www.samsung.com/us/support/guides/howToGuideSearchList.do?group=audiovideo&type=blu_ray&subtype=blu_raydiscplayers&model_nm=BD-P1500&dType=D&mType=UM&vType=R&prd_ia_cd=03020100&acc_ia_fl=&disp_nm=BD-P1500
Netflix
by Samsung_HD_Tech
- 12/1/08 9:52 PM
In reply to: BDP 1500 Blu ray Player and streaming netflix by JAZZSAP
Jazzsap,
While you may have Firmware V.2 installed correctly, Samsung has not announced Netflix support for the BD-P1500 to my knowledge. It will be available in the near future for the BD-P2500/50 models, but I'm not aware of it being available for the BD-P1500.
I will check in the morning with our tech staff.
--HDTech
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by akirasukura - 12/2/08 6:59 PM In reply to: Netflix by Samsung_HD_Tech
It would rock if Samsung would do a firmware update to allow the 1500 to stream Netflix. Would that be possible at all? There were quite a few of those flying of the shelves on black Friday.
netflix streaming on the samsung 1500 BD
by mikehamp100 - 12/2/08 8:33 PM In reply to: Netflix by Samsung_HD_Tech
I would really appreciate Samsung's take on this. The thing has the required connections (presumable just a LAN jack) and the output is already going to the TV.
Also, what difference does the firmware upgrade make, and do you need it with something so recently purchased?
Thanks
i hope netflix on the 1500
by davix123 - 1/10/09 2:54 PM In reply to: BDP 1500 Blu ray Player and streaming netflix by JAZZSAPBut i dont see any comment on the link anyway i hope is true
BDP1500
by Samsung_HD_Tech - 1/12/09 11:43 AM
In reply to: i hope netflix on the 1500 by davix123
There is no planned upgrade for the BD-P1500 to use the Netflix Service. It's an advancement in technology that came after the release of the BD-P1500, and thus the current technology in the unit is limited to its original design to just play movies and DVDs.
--HDTech
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BDP1500
by GiantsJim - 1/23/09 12:23 PM In reply to: BDP1500 by Samsung_HD_Tech
Could you elaborate on that? What is the difference in hardware, as opposed to firmware, that allows Netflix on the 2500 but not the 1500?
Difinitive answer
by Samsung_HD_Tech - 1/23/09 5:41 PM
In reply to: BDP1500 by GiantsJim
I'll get a more difinitive answer on Monday if I can.
I believe it's the storage "cache" for the streaming, but let me double check that for you.
--HDTech
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Any more info
by cut2muz - 2/1/09 1:18 PM In reply to: Difinitive answer by Samsung_HD_Tech
It seemed the "definitive answer" hadn't been given on the BP-1500 being able to stream Netflix. Sure hate to have to buy the Netflix Rocu box and love my Blu Ray player.
Thanks for the time to answer..
Don Wilson
No Netflix on the 1500
by Samsung_HD_Tech - 2/4/09 12:35 PM
In reply to: Any more info by cut2muz
Forum members,
Okay, I have done a bit of research and found that not only is the physical memory insufficient in the BD-P1500 to stream Netflix, but the internal board itself is incapable of running that application. It wasn't part of the original design, so the necessary components to run the features of Netflix are absent, pretty much altogether.
--HDTech
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Thanks
by davix123 - 2/4/09 12:47 PM In reply to: No Netflix on the 1500 by Samsung_HD_Tech
Thanks now i don't have to be searching more new information every 2 or 3 days.
Sounds like a cop out
by blakecaldwell - 2/23/09 9:10 PM In reply to: No Netflix on the 1500 by Samsung_HD_Tech
The machine should be able to stream netflix since it has the video, memory (w/USB), and internet capability. However, there will be no netflix since Samsung has decided that it doesn't want to write a new program, thus, forcing people to buy new devices.
Respectfully disagree...
by Samsung_HD_Tech - 2/25/09 6:48 PM
In reply to: Sounds like a cop out by blakecaldwell
blakecaldwell,
The unit was designed to have memory and functionality for BDLive, as advertised. Netflix requries more memory to reside in the physical player. You can't add physical memory using a firmware update.
That's like saying to a computer manufacturer that because new bigger harddrives are available on newer models than what you purchased that they should give you one, or if the same make and model of car has a higher horsepower engine this year than the one you bought last year that you should be compensated.
In some cases, we are able to do that, and have done that. The 6-Series LCDs were never designed or advertised to run wireless InfoLink, but we found later that it could and that it added value to the consumer. It costs money to develop that (and made the distinction betwen the 6 and 7 Series less defined, actually, so we were even willing to PAY so the customer could have an added value), but we did it anyway because it added value to our customers. So there are cases where it can happen, where it does happen, and some cases where it can't happen.
We move forward with new technology that the older ones weren't designed to have. That's a part of being innovative.
--HDTech
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