Purchase Samsung BD-P3600 1080p Blu-ray Disc Player

A lot of people have been waiting for this player. Well they should wait some more as it is not ready for prime time. There are cheaper better players that work better than this one.

First let me say that most of the problems have to do with media other than Blu-ray disks. Many of us were looking for a nice Blu-ray player that would play media from USB drives and even stream them from you PC. While this unit claims to do that it is riddled with problems. Let me list them.

1. Lets talk about streaming media. First you need to connect the player to your network. I tried and tried and could not get the wireless dongle that comes with the player to work with my network. I'm not even using any security on my network. It just refused to connect to my wireless router. After an hour of messing with settings I gave up and resorted to using a wired connection. I was able to connect to the network but my shared drives are password protected. You have to manually enter the IP address of the PC and the folder name as well as the username and password. All fine and dandy. I did get it to work however. As soon as you power down the player (power switch) it loses the data. This is unacceptable. Ever try to enter all that information with a remote. No way. I resorted to providing guest accounts (Open) so that they could be searched and accessed. This works and you are able to access the DIVX avi files. Power down the machine and you have to search again.


2. No streaming of any other video format from PC/USB or Data DVD. Not even H264 MP4 files as stated in the manual. Only DIVX and XVID avi files are supported. And these have major issues almost every single file played started to stutter once you were about 20-30 minutes into the video. It does not matter if they were streamed form PC/USB or DATA DVD. The DIVX decoder on this machine has major problems and no other codec or format is supported.


3. Cannot fast-forward or rewind faster than X8 when watching DIVX movies. This means if you are resuming a move near the end its going to take you 10-15 minutes to get there.


4. When going from PC to Disk to USB the player gets lost and you have to cycle the power to get back on track.


5. Top buttons are touch sensitive and don't always work the first time you touch them.


6. Manual Stinks. No support on website. In major need of a firmware upgrade.


7. You cannot use a Blu-Ray BD-R or BD-RE as a data disk with media. Does not work.

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OK all that said the player does a great job of up converting standard DVD's. The look great. Bottom line is you are paying a lot to get these other features and they just don't deliver. I could have lived with just about every thing but the stutter problem. This makes the player unsuitable for use other than as standard Blu-Ray or DVD player and there are much cheaper choices for this.

I am returning the player
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