Samsung, a highly recognizable name in electronics known chiefly for televisions, put several new devices on the market in 2005 and 2006, including the television with a massive 82” display. Always innovative in television technology, Samsung had some clunky offerings in the MP3 and media player world during that time. While Samsung MP3 and media players are still available and still take a certain share of the marketplace, despite the higher cost than other similar devices, a notable device they introduced during that time was the YM-P1 Satellite TV.
The Samsung YM-P1 media player was an impressive media player at the time, with a 4” LCD display and 480 x 272 pixel resolution. While similar media players were hardly new, the YM-P1 Satellite TV media player let the user record from satellite and cable TV through AV jacks. So not only could you take your favorite MP3s and certain digital videos with you, but you could record television shows and watch them on the go.
The YM-P1 Satellite TV media player could play almost any format from MP3, WMA, MPEG4 to codecs like DivX, Xvid, AVI and MWV. Jpegs and bitmaps were compatible with it, too and text files could even be stored viewed. Samsung’s PlaysForSure Technology made this, along with its other MP3 offerings, able to play music from any online music service rather than just one or two. You could even convert your Tivo recordings to MPEG4 format to watch on your YM-P1 Satellite TV media player. They didn’t officially endorse or explain how to transfer the file from one format to another, but it wasn’t difficult to search online for information on how to do it.
The YM-P1 Satellite TV media player also featured an FM radio and an SDIO slot for added memory with SD cards. At almost $450 for about 20 gigs of storage, it was a pricey media player. And any online search today won’t find this model 2 years after its release, not even on Ebay. It gave way to other better Samsung media players, like the YP-K5 and the YP-S5, all with smaller sizes, more storage, bluetooth technology and compatibility, and smaller price tags with a focus on MP3 and video playback. Now, many manufacturers make AV and media players similar to the YM-P1 Satellite TV media player Samsung originally released, but they have larger displays and better playability for much less money that the original YM-P1 Satellite TV price tag.
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