Samsung To Stop Making 4K Blu-Ray Players, Report Says (cnet.com)

According to a report from Forbes, Samsung may be exiting the 4K Blu-ray player market. "After launching its first 4K players in 2017, the company didn't add any new players to its lineup in 2018," reports CNET. "A high-end player for 2019 along the lines of its UBD-M9500 was in the works, the report says, but has now been scrapped." From the report: One of the reasons for pulling out could be that the existing players' format support has lagged behind the rest of the industry. For example, instead of supporting Dolby Vision, Samsung created its own version of HDR10, HDR10+, which was designed for use in streaming and physical media. Competitor Oppo was the first company to support both HDR10 and Dolby Vision but announced it was ending production of its 4K Blu-ray players in April 2018. Meanwhile Sony announced the M2 player at CES 2019 with support for Dolby Vision and Panasonic recently released the high-end DP-UB9000 player in Europe and Australia.

Comments

If my Samsung Blu-Ray is an indication - Good

[mykepredko]

Regardless of what Samsung does and does not support, their Blu-Ray players have significant quality and reliability issues along with poor service. Buying one really soured me on buying anything Samsung - I recently broke down and bought a Samsung refrigerator and while it has been fine, it's delivery and setup were a real story.

I know a number of other people with the the same experience (of course, there will be people here who have had a Samsung Blu-Ray players that haven't given them a second's worth of problems even though they left it out in the snow).

Re:If my Samsung Blu-Ray is an indication - Good

[GreatDrok]

"their Blu-Ray players have significant quality and reliability issues along with poor service."

You're not wrong. I bought a Samsung blu ray player and they put out a firmware update that knocked the audio out of sync. I waited for a fix which never came so I returned the player as faulty and they replaced it with another one which was fine until it did the same firmware update. Samsung had moved on to another model and weren't updating their previous player so I was stuck with a 6 month old player that didn't work. I ended up returning it as faulty and replacing it with a Panasonic which has been faultless. My wife works for a white goods repair man and he won't service Samsung gear because their parts availability is atrocious. Samsung just doesn't care it would seem.

Re:35mm

[pezezin]

For a full frame 35mm film (36x24mm) to resolve 90 megapixels, it should have a resolution of 160 lines/mm. Such film exists (Fuji Velvia 50, for example), but only under ideal lighting conditions and high contrast images. Cinema used a film format half as big (24x18 mm), so the resolution would have to be 230 lines/mm. Without getting into a very long winded debate, getting 90 megapixels out of 35 mm film is pure fantasy. From IMAX, sure, but from 35mm, no.