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Samsung Smart Blu-ray players allow you to easily search for movies, TV shows, explore Samsung apps and find many other types of new interactive content. Samsung apps is a growing collection of premium apps specifically built for your TV that connects you to your favorite digital content such as movies from Netflix or Blockbuster, TV shows from Hulu Plus, videos from YouTube, music from Pandora, and social updates from Facebook or Twitter. A search all feature enables you to find videos or files on both apps and other connected devices via AllShare DLNA technology. The your video recommendation engine suggests movies you might like from your video-on-demand services. Samsung smart Blu-ray players lets you discover a new world of web-connected entertainment.
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38 of 39 people found the following review helpful
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I bought this as a replacement to the rather lacklustre Bluray playback provided by my home theatre PC (the available playback software is just rubbish to put it mildly). And boy, did it deliver! Extremely fast loading times, stunningly detailed images with deep colours and black levels, silky-smooth 24p playback, hassle-free 3D, responsive interface, good upscaling of DVDs. And as a bonus, this player can easily be made region-free for DVDs - very handy for those of us with a large multi-region DVD collection
[UPDATE: Later firmware revisions have disabled the remote hack, but players that have already been made region-free will remain region-free. Just a warning for anyone planning on buying this player now...]
Negatives? It doesn't have any wifi capability built-in (you need to purchase a dongle). The remote is a little cumbersome and more annoyingly, it looks far too similar to my Samsung TV remote which is very confusing. The main menu screen looks a little cheesy and unprofessional. The drive mechanism is very noisy when loading menus (but fine when playing). Drive door and tray loading mechanism looks a tad cheap (but hardly surprising at this price point).
I didn't test the "apps" on the player - my Samsung TV already comes with these apps (and more) and has full wifi connectivity whereas this player does not. Quite frankly I bought the player purely to play discs, nothing more. And that it does extremely well...
[UPDATE: Later firmware revisions have disabled the remote hack, but players that have already been made region-free will remain region-free. Just a warning for anyone planning on buying this player now...]
Negatives? It doesn't have any wifi capability built-in (you need to purchase a dongle). The remote is a little cumbersome and more annoyingly, it looks far too similar to my Samsung TV remote which is very confusing. The main menu screen looks a little cheesy and unprofessional. The drive mechanism is very noisy when loading menus (but fine when playing). Drive door and tray loading mechanism looks a tad cheap (but hardly surprising at this price point).
I didn't test the "apps" on the player - my Samsung TV already comes with these apps (and more) and has full wifi connectivity whereas this player does not. Quite frankly I bought the player purely to play discs, nothing more. And that it does extremely well...
32 of 34 people found the following review helpful
Received this Samsung BD-D5500 3D Blu-ray device on Saturday, and is my first stand-alone 3D BD Player. Gone is my 'old' LG DVD Player... Will it be missed?
The design of the Samsung BD-D5500 is very nice, and is a pleasant replacement to my normal player. Both this, and the Samsung C750 3D is my first venture into the wonderful world of 3D at home. Yahoo!
The only bad side of this player so far, is the remote control. It isn't too ergonomically designed. The buttons aren't 'handily' located. BooHoo. Ok, good sides now - I bought a decent 1.4 cable for it. The quality of the movies are fantastic. No complaints so far.
And there is absolutely NO crosstalk seen at all. Very pleasing.
The best 3D movie seen so far here, is Ocean Wonderland - (Blu-ray 3D). It is visually stunning, and exactly what 3D is about. It is a benchmark to compare other movies to. It isn't the most riveting commentary, and it IS better when/if you just lower the volume and enjoy the display. Stunning, and it shows how spectacular 3D can be.
I look forward to there being many more 3D Blu-rays being made available. ;-)
Never having bought Samsung hardware before, I'd be more than likely to buy more, and I'd recommend it now. It's Amazon, so you KNOW it's safe. If you are thinking about 3D, you won't go wrong with this.
Samsung has now got a loyal customer here. Excellent job!
The design of the Samsung BD-D5500 is very nice, and is a pleasant replacement to my normal player. Both this, and the Samsung C750 3D is my first venture into the wonderful world of 3D at home. Yahoo!
The only bad side of this player so far, is the remote control. It isn't too ergonomically designed. The buttons aren't 'handily' located. BooHoo. Ok, good sides now - I bought a decent 1.4 cable for it. The quality of the movies are fantastic. No complaints so far.
And there is absolutely NO crosstalk seen at all. Very pleasing.
The best 3D movie seen so far here, is Ocean Wonderland - (Blu-ray 3D). It is visually stunning, and exactly what 3D is about. It is a benchmark to compare other movies to. It isn't the most riveting commentary, and it IS better when/if you just lower the volume and enjoy the display. Stunning, and it shows how spectacular 3D can be.
I look forward to there being many more 3D Blu-rays being made available. ;-)
Never having bought Samsung hardware before, I'd be more than likely to buy more, and I'd recommend it now. It's Amazon, so you KNOW it's safe. If you are thinking about 3D, you won't go wrong with this.
Samsung has now got a loyal customer here. Excellent job!
21 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Having had a PS3 for over three years I have not needed a bluray player before, and to be honest, still don't. But as I upgraded to a Samsung 3D plasma earlier this month I got this bundled with it. I am surprised at how slow it takes to load up a disc - it seems much slower than my noisy, tired old PS3 (and this is why I am only awarding it 4 stars) - but the results are worth the wait. I was more interested in the Smart Hub feature, though, as I want to be able to stream my video content from my Mac Mini, and it works effortlessly (I have set up TVMOBiLi on the Mac to enable the bluray player to locate the files).
I found the set up a little fiddly to start off with, but now it is, it's easy to use. The only downside is the lack of Apps, but as it's only just out I guess I shouldn't complain too much - as long as we get some more soon! the BBC iPlayer arrived this morning, and is a great feature, especially the HD content. But there is currently no LoveFilm, or any other worthy film/tv apps at the moment. Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are there, but to be honest, I have them on the pc, ipad, iphone and every other device in the house.
I haven't hooked up an external hard drive via the USB port yet (which is annoyingly on the front of the machine - WHY DO THEY DO THAT!) but after streaming HD content already from the Mac I don't envisage any issues there either.
On the whole, I would definitely recommend it - you can pick up a dongle online for about £45, if you really want one, but for me it sits comfortably in the corner of the room next to the router anyway. A great budget 3D player, with some cool features, can't wait to see what other apps come out for it !!
I found the set up a little fiddly to start off with, but now it is, it's easy to use. The only downside is the lack of Apps, but as it's only just out I guess I shouldn't complain too much - as long as we get some more soon! the BBC iPlayer arrived this morning, and is a great feature, especially the HD content. But there is currently no LoveFilm, or any other worthy film/tv apps at the moment. Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are there, but to be honest, I have them on the pc, ipad, iphone and every other device in the house.
I haven't hooked up an external hard drive via the USB port yet (which is annoyingly on the front of the machine - WHY DO THEY DO THAT!) but after streaming HD content already from the Mac I don't envisage any issues there either.
On the whole, I would definitely recommend it - you can pick up a dongle online for about £45, if you really want one, but for me it sits comfortably in the corner of the room next to the router anyway. A great budget 3D player, with some cool features, can't wait to see what other apps come out for it !!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
doesnt do as it advertises & overpriced
purchased and sending back
picture quality is fuzzy
the advertised Skype function doesnt exist
the dongle they expect you to buy to enable wifi is overpriced and... Read more
picture quality is fuzzy
the advertised Skype function doesnt exist
the dongle they expect you to buy to enable wifi is overpriced and... Read more
Published 29 days ago by Mr. Taylor
Samsung BD-D5500, no rewind/fast forward
Great picture, but let down by no rewind / fast forward on DLNA or external HDD playbacks. If you miss something or must stop the play. Read more
Published 2 months ago by jvar
excellent value for money
just plug it in, assign your WiFi dongle, and away you go.
playback discs, blue ray, any media disc, brilliant Sharp image, full surround sound. Read more
playback discs, blue ray, any media disc, brilliant Sharp image, full surround sound. Read more
Published 3 months ago by gadjet
Perfect match
Being new to the 3D concept l was anxious to marry up my Samsung 37in 3D smart TV and Samsung Sound Bar with a Samsung 3D Blue-ray player. Read more
Published 3 months ago by D. Montgomery
marvelous blue ray player
marvelous blue ray player,easy to it set up,worth the price paid for and would use this site again,canink of anythingnot th more to say about this product , buy it
Published 3 months ago by Mr. G. G. Griffin
BD D5500
Quick start up but disc system very noisy when first used. The record facility is very poorly implemented and you can not record two progs at the same time.
Published 3 months ago by CH
Very disappointing
I researched blu ray players and decided to go for this model (I have a Samsung TV so it helped my choice). Read more
Published 4 months ago by A. Thomson
Samsung blu-ray player
I bought this blu ray player for my son for Christmas. He is delighted with it. Works a treat - does everything it says on the box. Would certainly recommend.
Published 4 months ago by WAD1
nice player but audio options are limited
The first thing I have to comment on is the speed in witch this was sent amazing and in time for Xmas thank you. Read more
Published 5 months ago by LuminaryHorizon
Pile of crap
Bought this around 5.30pm and by 11pm I was swearing at it ! It was easy as hell to set up and (initially) layed blu rays very well. Cannot fault the playback UNTIL . . Read more
Published 6 months ago by Mark
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