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- Full 1080P high definition Blu-ray player with HD TV tuner and 250GB hard drive
- Dolby True HD, DTS HD Master Audio and 7.1 audio output
- Enjoy internet content on your TV including BBC iPlayer
- Wireless connectivity with built-in WiFi
- Enjoy more movie fun with BD live (Profile 2.0) and Bonusview
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Infinite online entertainment with Internet@TV
Watch great services like LOVEFiLM, BBC iPlayer, Twitter, YouTube and many others
Samsung’s Internet@TV feature sets new standards for connected Blu-ray players. The new Internet@TV platform provides viewers with a gateway to a multitude of entertainment ranging from Video, Music, News and Social Networking. Internet@TV offers a diverse range of online content, simply connect your device to the internet via the built-in wireless capability to access great online services such as Lovefilm movie streaming, BBC iPlayer, Muzu.TV music and many others.
Stop waiting with Ultra Fast Play
At Samsung, we believe there’s always room for improvement. We applied this philosophy to reduce the time it takes for a movie to actually start after inserting a disc into a Blu-ray or DVD player. Our Blu-ray players were engineered with Ultra Fast Play to eliminate those annoying load times. It gets you into the entertainment right away. So sitting down to watch your favourite movie no longer entails the drama of slow device booting and clumsy tray openings.Connecting is easy with All Share
Now you can enjoy movies, music and photos from your PC and other mobile devices, right on your Samsung TV screen. With Samsung's Allshare (powered by DLNA) you can wirelessly (Samsung LAN adaptor required) sync your PC and Samsung mobile phone with your Blu-ray player, streaming content and even keeping tabs on who’s calling and texting you with real-time monitoring on your screen. Samsung’s All Share makes staying connected easy.
Transfer your videos, music and photos from your PC or mobile device wirelessly and effortlessly
Fewer distractions. Fuller screen
To maximise your viewing experience, to truly feel the power of the on-screen portrayals, you need all the picture you can get. With the Screen Fit feature, Samsung Blu-ray disc player’s automatically converts 21:9 aspect ratio movies to 16:9 aspect, eliminating those annoying black bands crowding the scenes. Watch movies the way they were meant to be seen—with just one touch of the screen fit button.Experience the pinnacle of picture quality
Blu-ray is the only way you can get full HD 1080p images on your new HD TV. Bring your TV to life with a Samsung Blu-ray player. Experience 5x the quality of standard DVD, the Full HD 1080p quality engulfs you with spectacular detail–rich, eye-popping colours and super-sharp, ultra-realistic images that enhance everything on your screen.Built-in wireless connectivity
Wireless access to the infinite possibilities of next generation entertainment is effortless thanks to the BD-C8200's built in Wifi. Internet@TV and Allshare content can be accessed without wires, so you don't need to position you player in the reach of an ethernet wire to enjoy the additional multimedia features.
Internet@TV and Allshare content can be accessed without wires
Expand your multimedia horizons
Samsung's Blu-ray players can handle more than just Blu-ray discs. They will all play standard DVDs, even upscaling them to near full HD quality. Samsung Blu-ray players also allow you to plug in a wide range of digital devices via USB, so whether it’s in MP3, DivX, Divx HD, JPEG, JPEG HD, MKV, or AVCHD file formats, you’re able to enjoy your favourite files from the comfort of your sofa.
Terrestrial HD tuner included
Invite a whole new world of enhanced entertainment into your home with DVB-T2 broadcasting. Access new free-to-air HD channels with no monthly subscription. This ultra-convenient digital tuner brings the very best channels that you can watch, pause and even record onto the spacious Hard Disk Drive.
Score a goal with 250GB of recording space
Now you don’t have to worry about having enough recording space. The Samsung BD-C8200 has an amazing 250GB of hard disk space with 67 hours of HD recording time. That gives you plenty of time to record half of the matches played at the 2010 world football tournament — in HD. And even with 32 matches, you’ll still have some time left to record your favourite television programmes.
Enjoy free-to-air HD channels and record them directly onto the hard drive
AMG Music Metadata
You’re never listening in the dark with AMG Music Metadata service. It conveniently delivers crucial and updated track information whenever you need it. From song and album title to genre and release date, you’re always in the know when the music’s on.Keep in touch with your system
Samsung’s unique Touch Sensor controls allow you to easily control your home theatre system with the tips of your fingers. Each touch and tap delivers an emotional response which makes navigating your system’s features an intuitive and efficient experience.HD audio format support
Audio quality you can’t forget starts with DTS-HD Master Audio, Dolby true HD and Dolby Digital Plus formats. With technology this innovative, you’ll enjoy an immersive, theatre-quality sound right in your living room.Dolby True HD
Dolby TrueHD delivers high-definition sound that’s just as stunning as your TV’s HD picture. With advanced, lossless, multi-channel audio codec technology, you’ll be immersed in sound that’s identical to the studio master recording.
Experience 5x the quality of standard DVD with Full HD 1080p
DTS HD Master Audio
The new standard for Blu-ray lossless audio codec format, DTS-HD Master Audio, delivers positively all of the information from the original master recording. So, what you’re hearing is identical to what the sound engineers originally laid down.Anynet +
Anynet+ is an AV network system to automatically control Samsung audio-video (AV) devices. There is no need to use different remote controls for different devices. With Anynet+ feature, all you need is one remote control for simple and convenient experience.
BD Live & BonusView
Enjoy more movie fun with Blu-ray thanks to BD live (Profile 2.0) and Bonusview. BonusView feature allows you to watch additional features (commentary, interviews, etc) in a second window while the main movie is playing. BD Live takes movie interactivity one step further allowing you to connect to the internet to access even more content (review, interactive games, interviews) related to the movie you are watching, hosted on servers by the Hollywood studios.Box Contains
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79 of 80 people found the following review helpful
Reviews on this machine are split and I thought long and hard before purchasing. This is what I found;
Setup was quick and easy; the BD-C8200 scanned found and stored the channels (including HD ones), without issue. I was able to establish connection to the internet via wireless router and carry out the software update, again without any problems (just a case of finding your home network and entering the key). With the Internet connection established I downloaded the applications which took a little time as there were 17 of them, however these all installed successfully. It took me a little while to understand that to use some of the applications (i.e. those that normally require a user ID and password such as Facebook) you need, not only to initially 'one off' register them on the Samsung but also to set up a personal profile to log in with every time you access it(similar to logging on to an Xbox 360 using an individual profile.) However, once you get your head around this it is a doddle to log in and out,and the Samsung allows for multiple profiles for different members of the family (including the ability to `lock' access to an application, i.e parental control). I was particularly impressed by the YouTube app which is nicely presented and easy to navigate.
Next I tested the recording to HDD which performed well; including timed and instant record, playback and deletion, the picture quality was superb. The DVD player, being Blu Ray, performed admirably and the picture quality was impressive to say the least. The last test was access to other devices. The Samsung found my PC over the wireless network and I was able to see and play my music and video files and view pictures. The only thing I would say is that the time it took the Samsung to access some of the folders was slightly frustrating but then, I do have a lot of music files and once in, the delay was minimal.
Overall, I cannot really fault the BD C8200. Manage your expectation by understanding it can only access one facility at a time and yes it is a single tuner, and the handset is a little cluttered and not particularly intuitive. However the trade off is the price. For around £300.00 you are getting a lot of technology (including wireless access - a huge benefit), good performance and a quality picture for half the cost of, say the twin tuner Panasonic. The ability to upgrade the device over the Internet, and the HD functionality also make it fairly future-proof and so far, I have not experienced any picture freezing or machine `lock ups'. I would certainly not describe it as `worst consumer device ever'; that would be the Thomson TUTV+ DTI6300!
Setup was quick and easy; the BD-C8200 scanned found and stored the channels (including HD ones), without issue. I was able to establish connection to the internet via wireless router and carry out the software update, again without any problems (just a case of finding your home network and entering the key). With the Internet connection established I downloaded the applications which took a little time as there were 17 of them, however these all installed successfully. It took me a little while to understand that to use some of the applications (i.e. those that normally require a user ID and password such as Facebook) you need, not only to initially 'one off' register them on the Samsung but also to set up a personal profile to log in with every time you access it(similar to logging on to an Xbox 360 using an individual profile.) However, once you get your head around this it is a doddle to log in and out,and the Samsung allows for multiple profiles for different members of the family (including the ability to `lock' access to an application, i.e parental control). I was particularly impressed by the YouTube app which is nicely presented and easy to navigate.
Next I tested the recording to HDD which performed well; including timed and instant record, playback and deletion, the picture quality was superb. The DVD player, being Blu Ray, performed admirably and the picture quality was impressive to say the least. The last test was access to other devices. The Samsung found my PC over the wireless network and I was able to see and play my music and video files and view pictures. The only thing I would say is that the time it took the Samsung to access some of the folders was slightly frustrating but then, I do have a lot of music files and once in, the delay was minimal.
Overall, I cannot really fault the BD C8200. Manage your expectation by understanding it can only access one facility at a time and yes it is a single tuner, and the handset is a little cluttered and not particularly intuitive. However the trade off is the price. For around £300.00 you are getting a lot of technology (including wireless access - a huge benefit), good performance and a quality picture for half the cost of, say the twin tuner Panasonic. The ability to upgrade the device over the Internet, and the HD functionality also make it fairly future-proof and so far, I have not experienced any picture freezing or machine `lock ups'. I would certainly not describe it as `worst consumer device ever'; that would be the Thomson TUTV+ DTI6300!
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
On paper this is an exceptional unit. A blue ray player, a media streamer, a HD Freeview receiver and an internet enabled device all wrapped up in a great looking box. Indeed no one can fault the specs.
However, in reality this unit suffers from poor build quality that is surprising for a unit costing £380 (at time of purchase).
Upon receipt of my first unit I loved the design, it's a fantastic looking bit of kit, all blue lights and cool glowing buttons. This is a very futuristic looking unit. Powering it up it's a real shame the same care hasn't been given to the ugly, unfriendly user interface. This unit has a number of different functions available, unfortunately the software designers haven't fully realised how to bring them all together with an easy to use menu system.
The much vaunted Samsun apps were also limited. Whilst YouTube worked very well I was very disappointed to find the LoveFilm service unavailable (apparently due in May so the app told me...inJuly!). A real pity given I purchased this unit for such access.
In total I have had 3 of these, each one has been returned to Amazon for a different problem.
Unit 1: Everything was fine until I watched a blu ray, then the voice channel (and only the voice channel) was really quiet. Meant you had to strain to hear the talking, which became impossible with any sort of action sequence which had loud noise coming out of the other speakers.
Called Samsung, they confirmed this must be a defective product and requested I contact Amazon, who quickly replaced the first unit for me.
Unit 2: Could now hear the voice channel and was pleased the problems had been so easily resolved. That was until around 3.30 am when I was woken by a peculiar noise coming from my living room. Getting up to investigate I find the unit to be opening and closing the disc drive. No idea why, it just opened and closed, opened and closed. Again called Samsung who attempted to help me do a reset on the unit to see if that would fix the problem, but unfortunately not and so Amazon replaced this second unit for me.
Unit 3: Well I could hear the voice and it's not woken me up in the middle of the night. So it was off to a good start! However, I then attempted to stream media from my NAS box, something the other two units had managed without any problems at all. This third unit took ages to (I assume) buffer the media, to then stop playing after playing all of 20 seconds to re-buffer. As I say, this didn't happen with the other units, I therefore assume there to be an issue with this units wifi as nothing has changed within my set up. I also found the picture (but not the sound) would cut out while watching freeview or a blu ray.
Enough was enough, I've now returned the unit to Amazon for a full refund and have instead purchased the Sony BDPS570B Blu-ray Disc Player with Built-in 3D Technology which has so far been an excellent unit with an easy to use interface and access to LoveFilm.
I contacted Samsung for an opportunity to provide a comment for this review, they failed to respond.
In short, save yourself a lot of bother and disappointment and buy a Sony instead.
However, in reality this unit suffers from poor build quality that is surprising for a unit costing £380 (at time of purchase).
Upon receipt of my first unit I loved the design, it's a fantastic looking bit of kit, all blue lights and cool glowing buttons. This is a very futuristic looking unit. Powering it up it's a real shame the same care hasn't been given to the ugly, unfriendly user interface. This unit has a number of different functions available, unfortunately the software designers haven't fully realised how to bring them all together with an easy to use menu system.
The much vaunted Samsun apps were also limited. Whilst YouTube worked very well I was very disappointed to find the LoveFilm service unavailable (apparently due in May so the app told me...inJuly!). A real pity given I purchased this unit for such access.
In total I have had 3 of these, each one has been returned to Amazon for a different problem.
Unit 1: Everything was fine until I watched a blu ray, then the voice channel (and only the voice channel) was really quiet. Meant you had to strain to hear the talking, which became impossible with any sort of action sequence which had loud noise coming out of the other speakers.
Called Samsung, they confirmed this must be a defective product and requested I contact Amazon, who quickly replaced the first unit for me.
Unit 2: Could now hear the voice channel and was pleased the problems had been so easily resolved. That was until around 3.30 am when I was woken by a peculiar noise coming from my living room. Getting up to investigate I find the unit to be opening and closing the disc drive. No idea why, it just opened and closed, opened and closed. Again called Samsung who attempted to help me do a reset on the unit to see if that would fix the problem, but unfortunately not and so Amazon replaced this second unit for me.
Unit 3: Well I could hear the voice and it's not woken me up in the middle of the night. So it was off to a good start! However, I then attempted to stream media from my NAS box, something the other two units had managed without any problems at all. This third unit took ages to (I assume) buffer the media, to then stop playing after playing all of 20 seconds to re-buffer. As I say, this didn't happen with the other units, I therefore assume there to be an issue with this units wifi as nothing has changed within my set up. I also found the picture (but not the sound) would cut out while watching freeview or a blu ray.
Enough was enough, I've now returned the unit to Amazon for a full refund and have instead purchased the Sony BDPS570B Blu-ray Disc Player with Built-in 3D Technology which has so far been an excellent unit with an easy to use interface and access to LoveFilm.
I contacted Samsung for an opportunity to provide a comment for this review, they failed to respond.
In short, save yourself a lot of bother and disappointment and buy a Sony instead.
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Just got this box over last few days with I have connected to a Series 6 Samsung TV.
Picture quality is excellent. Comparing with my Humax freesat HD box, the HD quality is easy equal if not slightly better on the Samsung, but what surprised me is the SD picture quality is way better than the Humax box AND better the built in tuner on my Series 6.
This box does only have one tuner, but I have not yet seen a twin tuner box with the same functionality for the price of this box. Some twin tuner boxes with blu-ray etc are nearly twice the price. Unless you are heavy into recording two channels at once, a single tuner is not a big problem as many TV now days have a built in tuner which you can use if you want to watch another program while recording a channel.
Setting up to record a program is easy peasy, just go to EPG guide, select program and select schedule and record, job done.
The only reason I did not give five stars is that if you recording you can not use any other function that would use the HDD at the same time for example, watch blu-ray disc (due to BD Live using a small amount of HDD space) or viewing file off the HDD. You can however use functions that don't need the HDD while recording, for example playing a music CD.
When you receive the box there is software update to be done, which is quite easy to do using the wired or wireless lan connection.
I have not had any box lock ups after software update and the box is whisper quiet cooling fan wise.
Picture quality is excellent. Comparing with my Humax freesat HD box, the HD quality is easy equal if not slightly better on the Samsung, but what surprised me is the SD picture quality is way better than the Humax box AND better the built in tuner on my Series 6.
This box does only have one tuner, but I have not yet seen a twin tuner box with the same functionality for the price of this box. Some twin tuner boxes with blu-ray etc are nearly twice the price. Unless you are heavy into recording two channels at once, a single tuner is not a big problem as many TV now days have a built in tuner which you can use if you want to watch another program while recording a channel.
Setting up to record a program is easy peasy, just go to EPG guide, select program and select schedule and record, job done.
The only reason I did not give five stars is that if you recording you can not use any other function that would use the HDD at the same time for example, watch blu-ray disc (due to BD Live using a small amount of HDD space) or viewing file off the HDD. You can however use functions that don't need the HDD while recording, for example playing a music CD.
When you receive the box there is software update to be done, which is quite easy to do using the wired or wireless lan connection.
I have not had any box lock ups after software update and the box is whisper quiet cooling fan wise.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
It does everything that it say's on the tin.
I bought this product with the intention of using it in Spain on a community that uses cable T.V and the DVB-C receiver works great. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Richard I
Set Up Surprise
Basic set up was very easy and quick. Advanced set up for the wireless internet was not so simple but I got there eventually. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Romer
Worst device I ever bought n worst product support
I expected this player/recorder to be good, but quite frankly it's the worst thing I've ever bought it constantly freezes if you try to stream with it, (at first I thought that... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Yorkie
A big mistake
Bought this device and After 10 months the one USB socket became faulty
Contacted Samsung, device sent to repair centre. Read more
Contacted Samsung, device sent to repair centre. Read more
Published 6 months ago by James Laming
Sounds great, but where are the inputs?
After reading other reviews here, and having great experience with Samsung equipment, I was about to buy this machine, when mercifully I looked at the provided image of its rear... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Caspersozza
Problems with internet@TV
There is an issue with the Internet@TV function (which allows you to access Samsung apps) on some of these devices. Read more
Published 8 months ago by GA
BD-C8200 Limitations and Annoying stuff
I've had the product for two months or so and am gradually discovering its strengths and weaknesses. In general it works. What's wrong with it? Read more
Published 10 months ago by Jick
Samsung BD-C8200 - Great Product at a Good Price
I read a number of reviews before buying the Samsung BD-C8200 and while some were good, a few were a bit negative. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Safi
Poor Amazon Admin
The goods were returned due to courier damage. I got a refund. Your system should show this and should NOT be asking me to review a product I have never used.
Published 13 months ago by Ady
Disappointing effort
This device was far less than I hoped it would be. It is a decent (if expensive) Blu-ray player. The PVR / Hard disk recording functionality is passable. Read more
Published 13 months ago by rdj
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