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

I bought this at Best Buy for the fact it was exclusive to them for about 2 months of it's initial release. It looks great in the home theater and offers promising features. I bought this more so for the streaming Pandora, Netflix, and Divx encoded files. There a plenty Blu Ray players out there but not too many offer these features. I am partial to samsung HT products being that I love my TV by them.

Blu Ray:

The Blu Ray seems to take too long to load. I have had issues loading some discs and have found others having the same problems. Wall E from Disney took me about 5 tries to get it to play. It seems slow when trying to do anything with blu ray.

DVD:

I played my first regular DVD the other day and my experience was disappointing. The movie froze about 20 minutes in and i had to stop and hit play again. At another point it skipped a few times. This was brand new DVD out of the case.

Streaming and Networking:

AHH! First off I am pretty tech savvy in all fields of networking and HT. Getting this to connect to my newer Linksys wireless N router is a chore. I do like that a wireless N dongle is included but it is painstaking to get this to work. The pandora works well when you can connect. The streaming from the PC works well for the most part but I usually have to reboot the player a few times to get it find my shared folders. I haven't used the netflix yet because I don't want to pay for a subscription and have my device not work with it. The player offers WPS, or "Wifi Protected Setup". This is nice if you have a networking device that also supports it which mine does. However! It never worked. The only way to get this player to connect to my N or G network is to completely remove all security which I imagine most consumers do not want to do. Lastly, it freezes. It just freezes! I have had to unplug the unit itself about 5 times since ownership from these freezes.

Conclusion. I had high hopes. I am disappointed. I love Samsung products more than any other but i cannot recommend this player. My only hope is that they release updates for which can be done automatically when connected to a network, that is if I can connect in the first place. I would wait to see what happens with this player.Get more detail about Samsung BD-P3600 1080p Blu-ray Disc Player.