Samsun-BD-C5500

Samsung BD-C5500 1080p Blu-ray Disc Player

The BD-C5500 is Samsung’s brand new basic level blu-ray participant within the sub$200 marketplace. Even though it’s a good basic level player it will include the most recent functions, media abilities and loading content material on the internet.

Good eco-friendly motion, the Samsung BD-C5500 functions a good environment pleasant eco-design that pulls 13 w throughout make use of along with a simple 0. 1 w standby.

Design

The Samsung BD-C5500 appears trim and smooth inside a polished dark complete. The azor-sharp squarish style and contact delicate regulates provide this a higher technology appear. Hidden nicely at the rear of the decrease lower solar panel on the remaining may be the disk holder. The ability switch on the right is lit upon standby which means you won’t possess any kind of difficulties switching this inside a dim space.

Connectivity

As a fundamental design, the online connectivity choices tend to be restricted. On the back panel, you receive the HDMI away, element movie result, electronic optical sound result, stereo system analog sound result as well as a good Ethernet interface. Wi-fi isn't one of them design, but there's a good enter to have an optionally available cellular LAN adaptor. Furthermore, there's a USB port in front situated underneath the energy switch.

Features

The BD-C5500 has a powerful collection associated with loading choices. As soon as linked on the internet, it is possible to get into Samsung’s latest incarnation associated with Internet@TV.

Here’s a summary of key features:

Internet@TV – Offers loading content and online applications through BLOCKBUSTER, Facebook, Flickr, Netflix, Pandora, Twitter, Youtube and so on.
BD-Live ready – Have more from the Blu-ray disk. BD-Live 2. 0 allows galleries future-proof their Blu-ray game titles, to allow them to include content to BD-Live Ready discs despite they've been delivered. Merely link your Blu-ray player towards the Web to obtain pictures, subtitles and much more. Text-chat with buddies throughout a film, or perform towards other people on the internet trivia video games to uncover unique movie content.
Full 1080p Picture Quality – The C5500 offers video quality associated with 1080p for blu-ray DVDs with movie dependent content without requirement for additional transformation. It will likewise up-convert your assortment of DVD disks to 1080p.
Wireless LAN-ready (Wireless LAN adaptor not included)
Ultra fast play and disc loading
Advanced HD audio support for DTS-HD Master Audio and Dolby Digital TrueHD

Samsung’s brand new players additionally include enhanced power effectiveness by utilizing new systems like loader responsibility manage and reduced voltage spindle engine. The BD-C5500 is compliant using the strict EnergyStar® 4.0 recommendations.

The aBD-C5500 doesn't include 7. 1 analog output. It means you will have to possess a more recent era AV recipient which allows HDMI to savor all of the high res lossless sound codecs upon blu-ray DVDs.

Setup & Performance

Establishing the player is easy and simple to follow while using onscreen GUI. The brand new GUI is really a designated enhancement on the prior Samsung gamers having a much more pictorial strategy. Make sure to perform the firmware revise very first. As soon as that's carried out, you ought to have absolutely no difficulties obtaining Internet@TV installed and operating.

Long disk launching occasions will always be a significant concern with previously era blu-ray players. With one of these brand new harvest associated with gamers, Samsung offers lastly hidden the issue. This is the quickest participant we have examined. The Curse of the Black Pearl, the infamously slow-loading blu-ray disk along with Espresso large functions, within sixteen secs, that is regarding 9 mere seconds quicker compared to Panasonic DMP-BD65 and nearly 20 mere seconds quicker compared to LG BD550. A significant amazing task to have an basic level participant.

Blu-ray playback is for great providing the razor-sharp, sharp image. On the Bucket List blu-ray, an earlier picture offers Jack port Nicholson’s personality taking advantage of the mug associated with java, offered within an stylish gold-and-china demitasse, having very easily noticeable particulars. The color scheme runs in the demure on the extreme with the perfect quantity of color vividness. Skin sculpt is organic and darkish moments tend to be made along with great darkness particulars. It might not really competitor the inky blacks associated with gamers in Oppo’s quality, but this is great overall performance for such type of reasonably listed participant.

Even though blu-ray performance is exceptional, exactly the same can't be stated because of its execution associated with DLNA functions. A few features such as rewind and fast-forward aren't obtainable whenever actively playing the document saved on the DLNA server. Being able to access jpeg pictures could be excruciatingly sluggish sometimes. Hopefully long term firmware improvements can solve these types of problems.

Bottom Line

The Samsung BD-C5500 provides superb affordable for individuals who would like the fairly good-performing participant using the most recent media functions. The simple set up and easy procedure are fantastic for those people who are implementing hd playback at home for the very first time. Nevertheless, Wi-Fi link demands one more expense within price, so select this particular player for those who have a good Ethernet link and need not link wirelessly. Should you need wi-fi capacity, you're much better away opting for the actual BD-C6500 for around $50 much more.

Key Features

Eco-Friendly Design
Supports Internet@TV/Samsung Apps, which will provide content from Blockbuster, Netflix, Pandora, Picasa,Twitter, Vudu
BD-Live 2.0 Ready
Fast disc load
Wi-Fi ready (requires USB dongle, sold separately)
EnergyStar® 4.0 Compliant

Specifications

Full HD 1080p
Playback Media: BD / CD/DVD /USB
Playback Formats: 3GPP, AVCHD, DVXHD, MPEG2, VC-1
Built-in Audio Decoders :Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD decoder
DVD Upconversion : Yes (up to 1080p)
Output Resolution : 720p, 1080i, 1080p
Dimensions: 17.1"W x 1.7"H x 8.1"D
Weight : 3.8 lbs