Samsung BD-F5900 3D Wi-Fi Blu-ray Disc Player (2013 Model)

Product Description

Samsung BD-F5900 3D Wi-Fi Blu-ray Disc Player S-Recommendation helps you find new things to watch, and Apps offer you new ways to entertain. Enjoy a simple menu, explore the web with built-in browser and Wi-Fi and stream from your other devices with AllShare. Expand your entertainment collection - watch 3D and Blu-ray, stream, or up-convert your favorite DVD to near Blu-ray quality. Smart Hub Smart Hub provides a single location for all of your favorite smart content, giving you easy and instant access to apps, photos, videos, web browsers and much more. It's the simplest way to explore a world of entertainment. 3D Blu-ray Whether you are viewing a premium-quality 2D picture or seeing incredible 3D depth, images are breathtakingly real in Samsung Full HD. Combine with a 3D TV and 3D active shutter glasses to view the latest Hollywood 3D titles. 3D TV, Active glasses and content required. S-Recommendation The S-Recommendation feature will allow you to get Movie and TV recommendations tailored to your taste and preference automatically. Full Web Browser Enjoy all of the benefits of full web browsing right on the big screen. Easily stream your favorite movies and TV shows, download apps, shop online, browse the web, update your status on Facebook and Twitter, and more. Samsung Apps Discover a world of entertainment and access hundreds of Apps* directly through your Smart Bluray Player that let you stream music, movies, TV shows and more. Built-in Wi-Fi Connect to your network wirelessly with Built-in WiFi. What's Included: BD-F5900 3D Wi-Fi Blu-ray Disc Player, Remote Control, 2 AAA Batteries, and DocumentationBD-F5900 Specifications Samsung Disc Player Comparison Chart Series BD-F7500 BD-F5900 BD-E5400 BD-F5100 DVD-E360 DVD-C500 3D 4K Upscaling Smart Blu-ray 5 Content Partners* 3 Content Partners** Full Web Browser Built-in Wi-Fi 7.1 Analog Outputs Quick Start Mode Blu-ray DVD HDMI/USB 2/1 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/0 1/0 *Five content partners: Netflix, CinemaNow, Youtube, Vudu, and Pandora. **Three content partners: Netflix, Pandora, and Youtube






CUSTOMER REVIEW



I bought this from Best Buy, not from Amazon, but I felt compelled to write a mini-review of my experience with this device. As a standalone blu-ray player, its great. Not much to say about it. However half of this device is the Smart Hub. Samsung, in their infinite wisdom, decided to tie every app down to their unreliable servers. If the Samsung servers go down (and they do a LOT) you can't use any apps. The first day I bought it everything worked great and I was very happy with it, it even had a couple apps that I really wanted that non-Samsung smart TVs and BD players do not have (Verizon FiOS app and GLWiz app). Second day at around noon, no app seemed to work. I thought I had an internet problem, but no, Internet was fine and the BD player was connected. I kept trying throughout the day and still nothing. I thought it was a problem with the player so I took it back to Best Buy and exchanged it. Once I set it up, same problem, could not access any apps in the Smart Hub. So I did some searching and found out that this is a common issue with Samsung products, their servers go down regularly, sometimes for a day. Sure enough it was almost down a day as I couldn't access the apps until the next morning. Everything seemed to work fine for about three days until once again Samsung's servers went down. Absolutely ridiculous and unacceptable. I was done with this product and returned it.

No other company making smart products does this, Samsung seems to be the only one that decided to use their own servers. Instead of each app being independent of each other, they are all tied to Samsung's unreliable servers. If you do some research you will find that Samsung servers have a reliability of about 97%, which may seem like a high number but generally companies strive for 99.99% or higher server uptime. 97% is absolutely horrible.