 Outstanding player!!!! |
| Review Date: April 7, 2009 |
| Reviewer: JR, East Harlem |
When choosing a blu ray player, the choice can be confusing at times. After months of searching I now believe the best ones are the ones that match your needs most, after price point. Here is my review after a night well spent learning the ins and outs.
Pros-
Wifi-- This year Wifi will be all the rage. Set up with my samsung after a slight learning curve took 20 mins tops and once connected it worked flawlessy. I didn't even need to read the manuel. Superb and blazing fast!
Pandora--what a terrific gem of a music program. And its free! The learning curve is super easy and fun. I was able to program it from my mobile phone, and there it is two seconds later. I am a happy camper!
Netflix-- Great. super simple! Netflix needs more choices, but that is not Samsung's fault.
wifi dongle!- They could have charged for this. They didn't. Great!
cons, if it is one--The player feels flimsy upon first contact so that you almost want to be super gentle with it. As opposed to the sturdier players out there. If that concerns you, i suggest you hold a floor model first and decide for yourself. Also, still no hdmi plugs offered with the majority of players, this one included. Makes no sense at this point. Luckily i have spares.
Overall- a solid player, with wonderful audio and visual clarity. My test for blu ray, The Dark Knight. Looked amazing, sound oustanding. Test for upscale, Wall-E. Looked incredible and rich.
Nice job samsung!!!
UPDATE: Not sure what all the griping is about for a select few, but I watched Punisher Warzone on this player, a hard hitting film if there ever was one and this player did not hiccup. Audio and visual clarity were fantastic!! Also just watched quantum of solace. No issues. A little lag in the load time but I suspect that has to do with the dvd not the player. Sounded and looked great!! Be cautious of those few on here who get one bad lemon and decide the whole basket is rotten.
Three and a half month update: Still no problems to report with this player. I have not had one single issue with any movie I have thrown at it and I have now played over 200 films on it. it's a workhorse. It also plays copies of pretty much any DVD you have burned from a computer hard drive. I'll say it again, great product!
This blu ray player has gone done in price remarkably since it first dropped. It's orginal asking price, for those of you coming to it now, was nearly 400.00 dollars. It is now nearly 50 percent less. This is a real steal folks. |
Better than expected, easy setup, fantastic player
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| Review Date: April 28, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Al Ridolfo, NYC |
I purchased this player yesterday evening at PC Richards ($355), It took me less than 1/2 hour to begin watching a netflix movie. Used HDMI cable, just unhooked the one already in my receiver for the old DVD player (a 5 disk sony upconverter), repluged it in the Samsung, pluged in the included dongle thing, searched for a wi-fi network, found mine, entered password, and away it went.
Viewed a regular DVD, the upconversion is much better than my old sony
Viewed a HD netflix movie - great
Viewed a regular netflix - not as good as the upconverted DVD quality, but better than a regular DVD. I can't beleive how good this works.
Added pandora music, also works fantastic.
only downside, the netflix only come out in Dolby 2 channel. Don't know if its me or netflix.
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Great Wireless Blue-ray Player!
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| Review Date: December 16, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Paul Corrigan, Port Washington, WI USA |
Pros:
*Wireless Connectivity
*Netflix Option
*PC streaming
*Automatic firmware updates
*BD Live 2.0
*It also connects to Pandora Radio, Blockbuster and YouTube.
Cons:
*The remote has small playback buttons
*The remote is not backlit
I had the BD-P3600 for a month and so far I'm very happy with it. I was a little concerned after reading the reviews since a lot of people complained about the network connectivity and the PC streaming setup. In my case it took about 10 minutes to connect to my wireless network (Linksys WRT160N router with WPA2 security). Once connected it was very easy to start using the Netflix stream option, and also stream contents from my desktop computer. I was able to view photos and play music after 10 minutes of setup. All I had to do was a network search and ensure that the folders from the computer were shared. The instructions on the Samsung website are simple and easy to follow, and all you need is the network key.
I purchased this unit because of the wireless connectivity out of the box and the Netflix streaming option, although the wireless is not built in; it comes with a separate Samsung proprietary Wi-Fi dongle that connects to one of the USB ports.
It is connected to my 42" Vizio LCD TV and the quality of the image is very good from DVD's and Netflix, and the Blue-ray movies look amazing with great detail, contrasts ,color and sound. I also used the BD live option with multiple Blue-ray discs and the connectivity only takes a few seconds.
The first time I connected the player I did the automatic firmware update and it worked fine, it took about 20 minutes for the download and the installation.
The load time is very good in my opinion but this is my first Blue-ray player so I can't compare to others, here are a few examples:
*Startup Time: 26 sec (after pressing the power button until ready on main screen)
*Netflix Load Time: 19 sec (after pressing the Netflix button until ready to select movie from instant queue)
*Lost Episode (HD) : 37 sec (from Netflix, started playing after selecting episode)
*Bolt: 35 sec (from Netflix, started playing after selecting movie)
*Underworld: 39 sec (from Netflix, started playing after selecting movie)
*Road to El Dorado (DVD) 12 sec (from the time the tray closed to when it started playing)
*Up (Blue-ray disc) 48 sec (from the time the tray closed to when it started playing)
I will definitely recommend this Blue-ray player to others as it has great options for the price. The image quality is excellent and I really like the Netflix option.
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This is the one to buy!
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| Review Date: June 2, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Sasa, Carson City, NV |
You couldn't beat the deal Amazon had! We got the player (Wi-Fi dongle included)& 4 blu ray movies for a total price of $291.
We just received our player last night and it was very easy for my husband to set up! It only took him a couple of minutes. The dongle connected to our Wi-Fi without a glitch. The player is connected to our Denon 3806 receiver and a Sony 1.3 HDMI cable was used (sales guy at Best Buy said we didn't need to have Monster cable for this connection only from receiver to tv). We have the Samsung 58B650 Plasma to go along it with it and the output is amazing. In addition, the player already came with the recent firmware loaded.
The movie tested with the player was AUSTRALIA. It took less than 30 seconds to load. It did make a little noise initially when it was searching for the disc in the player but it went away once the movie loaded. I had set up the Netflix and Pandora on the player and that was very easy. If you are not familiar with Netflix, this is the way to go to rent blu-ray movies and be able to watch movies or shows instantly on this player! We had Pandora on while we were preparing for dinner and there was never an interruption with the connection on the Wi-Fi. We are very pleased with this player for the quality and options at its price point. You can't beat it!
7/2 It's been over a month now and I would like to do a follow up review. The player has worked flawlessly and there has not been a glitch. I turned on the player yesterday and the player automatically did it's firmware update. That took about half an hour. Afterwards, we watched Inkheart with no problems!
9/21 Still loving this player! Oh it plays my DVD-R & DVD+R. It even upconverts to where these movies look fabulous! The same movie in a regular DVD player does not compare.
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Fantastic player!
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| Review Date: June 8, 2009 |
| Reviewer: kalistoga, CA |
It took me forever to make the move to Bluray..thinking upconverted DVDs would be good enough for me. I finally decided to give Bluray a try, but skeptically thought I'd be returning the unit after comparing it to an Oppo 970 upconverting player.
This player is far better than I expected or even hoped! Bluray picture quality is outstanding, and clearly better than upconverted Standards. I would say 25% better than Standard DVDs. However, upconversion of regular disks is incredible...and some look near Bluray quality (Space Cowboys for example) on our Samsung LN52A650. The upconversion on this player is even better than the Oppo...compared side by side. I doubt you'll find a better picture for your Standard DVD collection. I am very impressed. It is compatible with my older AV Home Theater system and produces improved sound quality to my aging system (although Oppo does do a better job on the audio). Netflix and Pandora are easy to set up and nice features. Note Pandora is free; Netflix you must be a member. Remote is very similar to the Samsung LN52A650 remote, and most functions on TV and DVD player are interchangeable on the two remotes. The two work well together, and when you turn on the DVD player...the TV automatically picks it up, without you having to switch over to it. I highly recommend this player and making the move to Bluray. The picture produced by this Bluray player and on this HDTV is simply breathtaking.
Other great features include: extremely fast loading times, USB memory stick, wireless dongle, sleek design, nice remote. I like the slightly raised buttons on top of the unit, since I can "feel" my way through the buttons when the room is dark. The buttons are far enough in front that you could stack something on top if you needed to (just set whatever is on top slightly back).
I have not tried connecting to my PC to access photos or video, so cannot comment on that aspect.
I have had the player a week now and it has been seemless and flawless in its operation and of top quality. I am very pleased and very happy I chose this model. |
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