Samsung BD-P1600

Samsung BD-P1600 Blu-ray Disc Player

BD-P1600 Review, by Lincoln Spector, PCWorld December 21, 2009

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• Latest User Reviews 5 reviews
• Reviewed by: kraxberger

  Duration of ownership: 2 Months

  Strengths: Network capabilities with Netflix, Pandora, YouTube; Disc loading speed; USB port for music or photos, price.

  Weaknesses: Grinding sound when starting up - minor annoyance, and pursuing w/ Customer Service.

  Overall: The grinding sound is the only thing that knocks it down from 5 stars. Initial firmware upgrade went extremely smooth (instruction sheet on top of the unit specifically states to do so). Netflix, YouTube, and Pandora work flawlessly (I use a hardwire connection), and was the main motivation to purchasing this player. I do get a small amount of video noise, but I believe it to be due to using a 50-foot HDMI cable - all my A/V equipment is in a remote closet.

• Reviewed by: hlh1953

  Duration of ownership: 1 Month

  Strengths: I bought it because of the low price,I am satisfied with the overall performance.

  Weaknesses: Do not like the front cover.

  Overall: I had trouble with wireless connection,until I remembered to disable my Comodo firewall.

• Reviewed by: sleepysb

  Duration of ownership: 1 Month

  Strengths: This is a much better blueray player than my first, and was half the price. It loads much faster than my sharp blueray player and has many added features that i use more than watching discs themselves. The netflix works fine on my network, i just plugged in the cat6 cable and had no problems connecting to netflix, blockbuster, youtube or pandora and i am wired into a 24 port gigabyte switch. The streaming quality was very good with blockbuster and netflix.

  Weaknesses: The flip down door is a bit annoying

  Overall: very good, went and bought 2 more for myself given the decent price.

• Reviewed by: kittymeatloaf

  Duration of ownership: 8 Months

  Strengths: Blue Ray discs play well

  Weaknesses: Netflix does not work with USB wireless or lan cable connection

  Overall: Samsung techs are unable to resolve my issue with Netflix. Will stream Blockbuster, Pandora and Youtube OK, but Netflix is a bust. They say there are known issues, but their solution is to not use the USB wireless, but connect lan cable directly to the cable modem (disconnecting the rest of my home network). I would not recommend this player.

• Reviewed by: WiredLasVegas

  Duration of ownership: 1 Day

  Strengths: Not a bad price,

  Weaknesses: BE WARNED ABOUT BUYING ANY SAMSUNG PRODUCTS. Upgrading the firmware without a service person telling you to, will voided the warranty.

  Overall: When you hook it up via wireless the unit will find that is has a new firmware update and like most technology you update it. So I did and than the thing indicated it could not read the disk. I called Samsung Canada and they said since I up dated the firmware without a service person telling me to, that voided my warranty. I discuss with his manager and he said the same thing I asked to talk to his manager and he said he did not have one, I said everyone is service has a manager. SO BE WARNED ABOUT BUYING ANY SAMSUNG PRODUCTS. If you follow the on screen upgrades you are on your own. Even page 55 states to update the the product on occasion, I have worked in technology for 25 years and never have I heard of such a policy. I will never buy a Samsung product again.

• Reviewed by: winstong00

  Strengths: Fast disc read upon loading. Picture quality of Netflix HD streaming is decent. Would purchase again.

  Weaknesses: Flipping scenes in Netflix streaming. See comments for details.

  Overall: The forward/rewind/pause buttons on the netflix streaming has a very delayed response, can be very annoying, and needs user experience to adjust to the timing of the remote-to-player response. Granted that the video source is streaming, I am expecting a bit of a delay, but this player somehow extends the delay a bit longer. For instance, when you are rewinding/forwarding scenes, there is a 1-, 2-second or longer delay between pressing STOP or PAUSE before the streaming video actually does(or sometimes it doesn't stop/pause after repeated pressing). However, these are minor glitches that do not in any way negatively impact the solid performance of the player.