Originally Posted by PFC5

The reason that he stated this about using the Component output is because Bill Hunt of The Digitalbits (seems to be a BD supporter) has taken back his poor review of the Samsung. We can all speculate WHY, but he says it is because most of the problems are with the HDMI output. None of the indepth reviewers/testers that are well know (from Secrets Benchmark, etc) has seen the miraculous improvement using component that Bill Hunt has seen.

But the Samsung can actually it can go as high as 1080i (not p) over Samsung's component output with a BD movie, but it will only do 480p using component with a SD DVD movie. There is no upscaling over component output with SD DVDs per the DVD Forum specs. Some Chinese mfg of SD DVD players have ignored this, but Samsung is following the SD DVD spec.

I think what you are talking about is AACS (not HDCP only used on digital connections), which allows (per the studio's demands) something called ICT, which COULD cut the resolution to 960x540 IF the studio implements it on any movie discs. None have so far but they could without notice.

One of the problems with the Samsung BD player is it was originally a 1080i maximum output device, but when BDA started the "1080p is 'true HD'" campaign to cloud the issue with this proven red herring, Samsung decided to add it into their "after the design fact".

This is causing the Samsung to take the 1080p/24Fps data on the movie discs and the original design converts it to 1080i, then the Mickey Mouse after thought design (using the after thought Faroudja chip) brings it back 1080p.

The Samsung is broken on many levels, but the most noticable problem is the BD movie discs currently released themselves. Samsung is falling on the sword for Sony since Sony delayed their own BD player release AGAIN to "On or about 10/25/06". Funny how the inventor of the technology will not even have a player out until 4 months AFTER the format debuts.