Samsung - Refurbished Wi-Fi Built-In Blu-ray Player

I found this Blu-Ray player while researching reviews on CNET's website. It received a excellent rating and had decent reviews. I was skeptical about buying a refurbished item, but it arrived in great condition and no defects have been detected. First the good, the player is thin, light, but has a solid feel to it. The video quality is excellent. On par with players costing much more. The Wi-fi was simple to set-up and I was connected to my home network in minutes. The connection has been stable, and when streaming Netflix I do not get any delays. Viewing videos/pictures via a flash drive is a snap with the front loading USB drive (players with a rear USB port just dont make sense). The quality is excellent via this media also. The touch screen buttons on the face add to the sleek look and are responsive and snappy. I use this player in my bedroom, but I believe it is good enough to be the stand alone player in your main home theatre system. My main uses are BD, Netflix (via wi-fi), and movies via USB port. Now, the bad. Reports of this player having slow boot times are accurate, to a point. Total boot time from 'power on' to 'DVD menu' is about 1min 15 secs. That really isnt a long time, it's just that some other players are faster. I usually put the DVD in and then grab a drink or some other meaningless task. By the time I'm settled in, the movie is ready to play. I mean seriously, it's only about 90-seconds we're talking here. Not enough reason to pass on this player. I think the remote was a bit of a let down as it is not backlit, and the forward/rewind buttons are glow in the dark, but fade very quickly. This makes it tough to navigate the remote when viewing at night. Overall, I have been very pleased with the workmanship of the player, and the output of video quality.

I got this device for a gift for Christmas in 2010. I haven't even had it for a year yet. At first everything worked great. Awesome picture, quick wifi, great for netflix, a bit laggy during movies and when you switched it on which i can deal with. But today I turned the device on it said it had a new update. Awesome, I went through the update steps which took a really long time. Then i went to watch a blu-ray movie (seeing as it is a blu-ray player.) and it would not play the disc. It just made a grinding sound. So I tried a few of my other blu-ray discs none of which worked either. Then I decide to try a dvd. It had no problem playing that. Now what good is the blu-ray player if it doesn't play the blu-rays i spend the money on? I went through all the reset procedures and none of those worked. People I contacted at samsung were "zero" help to me. So no I would not recommend a product to anyone that will stop working after a few months and that would need servicing ever so oftern. At that point you minds well through your money in the trash. I gave it a 2 and that is being nice.

Pros: Great picture and when it is wokring correctly its a very nice player. The wi-fi is great too Cons: SLOW!!! Will not allow me to go right to disc menu. I have owned this for a year now and after many updates its still slow and I am almost ready to throw it out the window. Literally right now voices and actions are out of sink on a new movie. The unit g Summary: I have owned this unit for over a year now & I love samsung, but I wish this unit would work faster and not freeze as much. I own a samsung TV that I am incredibley happy with, but this unit was a big dissapointment.

I bought this same model new. I was so dissatisfied with the set up (repeatedly cycled through set up everytime I installed a BluRay Disc) and the long wait time for the unit to initialize when turned on that I returned it. The picture was beautiful once you actually got it to play the movie.

First I want to say that picture that I got when playing blu-rays was top notch and as good as the next blu-ray player that I purchased. Set-up was relatively easy and initally I could connect to WIFI. The problem was that the WIFI connection was unreliable and it would drop often. After about a week the connection would not work. When I tried setting it up again I would have to go through the whole process of selecting the SSID and entering the WEP Key. I could not get the unit to connect. I kept on having to reenter/set-up the SSID and WEP Key with no luck. I tried moving the unit closer to the access point but that did not work. I know that the WIFI was working since my laptops and phone had no problem connecting to the Netowrk. Also the next Blu-ray player I got has no problem connecting to the WIFI. In the end I returned it to best buy and purchased a Panasonic that had a WIFI adapter that attaches to the back of the unit works great. Samsung is a good brand so maybe it was just a defective unit.

Bought this blue ray player new to go with my led samsung tv and it has been nothing but a pain. It plays blue rays well and that is about the extent of it. It WILL NOT connect to wifi. Samsung customer service said it was my wifi's fault not the players fault. Well my wifi works flawlessly on my laptop, ipad, and xbox 360. I am returning it and am not going to buy another samsung player.

It worked great for the first few days and then my wifi would not register. I sometimes had to reset the bluray player 2-3 times before it would work. Sometimes I would get a great picture but then the volume would not work. I have fiber optic internet and wifi on wii and my computer worked fine so I know it is the player. Best buy return was great and they will ship me another one right away. hopefully, this will solve the problem.

I know it was refurbished, but came with some physical damage that I could deal with considering how our home entertainment center is set up. However, it just stopped working. It will turn on but will not connect to any TV's in our house. While it was working, the wi-fi feature to get Pandora & other online things was awesome. I am returning it this weekend.