Samsung BD-C6500 Bluray Player------ - Page 3

Originally Posted by rdn

I picked up a 5500 at Costco yesterday ($159.95) and was able to stream a few MPEG2 videos via EyeConnect. The quality looked pretty good, but navigating was a pain. I also tried some other formats from a PC running Tversity but wasn't able to get any of them to play successfully. I'll spend more time with it later today.

Originally Posted by bigtim2000

Does your 5500 do netflix and Pandora? Is it exactly the same as the bd-c6500 without wireless. I have a wired connection to my home theater.

Originally Posted by rdn

Well, they show up as available, but I haven't tried either of them yet. There is an external wireless interface available for the BD-C5500. I haven't yet compared the specs with the 6500.

I haven't figured out the problem with Tversity yet. The 5500 doesn't seem to like .mpg files but does when they are served by EyeConnect. I'm not having any luck with photos on either server, but music works with the Mac. The menu navigation is pretty clunky and I was looking for something which worked better than my Directv DVR. So far, it doesn't, but these devices are new and hopefully some updates will show major improvements. I wanted a Blu-Ray player in any case and this one was listed as DLNA compliant at dlna.org.

Originally Posted by rdn

I compared the specs between the 5500 and 6500. The 5500 is slightly wider. Analog output lists the 5500 as 2CH and the 6500 as 7.1CH. The 6500 has 1 GB of local storage which the 5500 lacks. The specs indicate that they are both wireless-ready, but the wireless adapter isn't included with either. Otherwise the specs look identical.

The web site says "coming soon" for both models.

Originally Posted by bigtim2000

The web site state that the bd-c5500 has 1 gb of local storage. The samsung website seems to say the differences are the built in wireles and the 7.1 analog outputs. Also the 5500 has a silver band on it and the 6500 is all black and has a led screen on the front.

I was wondering if the costco 5500c the same as the 5500 except it has an hdmi cable.

Originally Posted by rdn

I picked up a 5500 at Costco yesterday ($159.95) and was able to stream a few MPEG2 videos via EyeConnect. The quality looked pretty good, but navigating was a pain. I also tried some other formats from a PC running Tversity but wasn't able to get any of them to play successfully. I'll spend more time with it later today.

Originally Posted by Scoob

Can you confirm that the 5500 has 1 GB of local storage?

Originally Posted by sdavguy

Pioneer Elite SC-09- Our shop demo system has 4 other players hooked to it and they decode the the formats fine.

Originally Posted by imaginereality

If you are setting the player to bitstream, then it's not doing any decoding PERIOD. It's merely sending the datastream straight through to the receiver. If you want it to decode, then you have to select either of the other two options (I can't remember how they are labeled at the moment).

Originally Posted by livingaboard

I know this is the 6500 thread but I picked up the 5500 from Costco yesterday after returning the Panasonic 605.

It loads much faster than the Panasonic and is less buggy so far.

The user interface is more intuitive and it displays information on the screen such as progress of a title/chapter and so forth while fast forwarding. I don't recall the Panasonic doing that but I may have had to activate that feature or something.

The blue rays look fine to me on my 65 inch Panasonic. I don't believe I have played a regular dvd yet. I set up Netflix and viewed my instant cue on the tv but did not stream them.

I set up Pandora and streamed some music there with no problem. I attempted a few times to use the Accuweather application and it froze twice on me which required a reboot of the player. Accuweather would not allow me past the region select screen. I did not attempt any other applications.

I had my player set up to the internet using my wireless xbox adapter plugged right into the back. I am going to attempt to use the xbox adapter with a 5 port switch so I can hook up the xbox, the Dish receiver and the Blu-ray to the internet. If that fails I will just hardwire cat 5 cable to the 5 port switch.

There doesn't appear to be any onboard storage. I attempted to load one app or something and it came back with an error about not enough storage.

I have the player setup so that the audio comes out in multichannel format and my Denon 1910 displays multi channel in on the display. I am not sure this is correct as my panasonic would cause the Denon to display Dolby.

Originally Posted by bigtim2000

The back port marked for the network is a usb port?
I could use that for local storage

Originally Posted by livingaboard

Actually the usb port is conveniently loaded on the front for just that reason I believe...in addition to being able to update via usb, I think. It can also play some files off of a thumb drive if I am not mistaken.

Originally Posted by imaginereality

^ the 6500 comes with 1 gig of online storage.

I've found that the "jittery" playback of MKVs only happens if you happen to have one with an OGG Vorbis track. It may be that all MKVs with more than one audio track causes this, but so far the ones I've tested have all had OGG secondary tracks (commentary, ect).

Originally Posted by druber

MakeMKV-made files from standard-def DVDs don't work. Zippo. It sure seems like it should work, but it's not listed as compatible in the user manual and it doesn't work in real life. I sent in a support message to Samsung. You should do the same if you want it to be supported. Obviously it can support MPEG-2 playback, just not in that container at the moment.

Originally Posted by livingaboard

Actually the usb port is conveniently loaded on the front for just that reason I believe...in addition to being able to update via usb, I think. It can also play some files off of a thumb drive if I am not mistaken.