BD-ES5000 Blu-ray & DVD Player

[Trippedout]

has anyone here tryed this player it says you can wirelessly connect to it from pc and play music and video files and pics from your pc this part interest me alot has anybody review it ? I seen it sold today for sixty quide today would like to see a review of this feature quality so on if the quilty good enuff just the thing I could be doing with .

http://www.samsung.com/uk/consumer/tv-audio-video/blu-ray-players/blu-ray-players/BD-ES5000/XU

[sanlyn]

Generally speaking, Samsung BD players get lukewarm to poor reviews by users, and are seldom the pick-of-the-pack from professional reviewers. Samsung products that perform well have a poor reliability record. Personally, I had so much trouble with several highly-touted Samsung products, I'll never buy Samsung again -- regardless of how many toys and buttons come with it.

Your choice.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B007QQZODO

[jman98]

Not what you are asking about but it's worth mentioning anyway...
If you think that there is any chance at all that in the future you will want your BluRay player to be region free, even if just for DVD playback, do NOT buy Samsung or Sony. Almost none of their models can ever be made region free. You have been warned.

[Trippedout]

sanlyn thnx it seems to get some bad coments wich is a pity as it was the streaming from pc that was interesting to me seems this model needs futher devlopment jman98 region thingy ive never bought any dvd that dosent come from my region and probily never will so thats no prob its useabilty perfomance and relibilty im intrested in and price and maybe price is resson for poor reviews you get what you pay for and its cheep may need to go up market for useabilty perfomance and relibilty thnx guys

[sanlyn]

There are several reasonably priced DVD/BluRay players. Unfortunately almost everything made by manufacturers these days is tin-and-plastic outsourced junk, unless you settle for high end units from Denon, Pioneer, or Oppo -- and even those are no 100% guarantee. The high-end players usually have fewer gadgets; they are designed for image and audio quality first. Still, among budget players it seems Panasonic BluRays offer the most favorably reviewed image/audio performance in both HD and SD, in affordable units. In any case, I wouldn't go for the lowest-tier products from any name brand.

[sas-seb]

This BD player is not compatible with audio files like WMA10 or M4A. I have tested it.
It is the same way with *.TS video files: not compatible.

But one important thing :
Go to its menu, and you will see that this player is animated by a Linux OS containing plugins like ffmpeg, etc!...

So, if someone knows how to hack its firmware (add plugins to Linux, etc), this lil' BD player would rock in FullHD!! It would be more than a simple BD player, it would be a true media box player!

[Trippedout]

Thnx for that review it did look promising like the right idea so on they seem to spend most of there time trying to stop what would make things great there for more sales but who am i to say im looking at this now

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Technisat-HDFS-Freesat-HD-Receiver/dp/B002DPVMXO

[Trippedout]

sas-seb right going to join you at the price cant realy go wrong only draw back is the lack of rca to conect to amp in favor of the slow horid digitial audio but have rca audio out from tv so not to bad play time if I can pickup secondhand digitial to analog converter arcam of cambridge audio should be interesting