Bought the SAMSUNG 3D Smart Blu-Ray Player with Wi-Fi and Smart Hub BDE5900 for 129$ from Myer, Castle Hill store. Couldn't find a better price elsewhere. JBHiFi is selling it for 176$ (http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/home%20theatre/blu-ray%20play…).
It comes with free blu-ray disc pack of ICE AGE 4 - Continental Drift.
Specs: http://www.samsung.com/au/consumer/tv-audio-video/blu-ray-dv…
Looked good until I read the following user reviews:
http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/review/home_entertainment/sams…
OUCH!
But you're not really going to buy a blu ray player to surf the net on are you?
So it doesn't browse the net too good.. Really, who's gonna use it anyway? It still seems like a good value player to me.
Arf @ comment #9 in above link
Mudgie?
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. lol
"all I want to do is smash this ####ing unit"
"I also want to smash the sales guy in jbhifi"
I think its still a good price to stream videos directly from your samsung tablet or smart phone, say, galaxy S3 phone using WiFi Direct feature.
The problem is Samsung have abysmal support, so if it does have issues (and by the sounds of those reviews…) then you're going to be stuck with a turkey.
Yep. I tried to contact them that it was not quite acceptable that the pause function freezes the whole thing. They said "try to reset the unit and flash the firmware", even though I told them I had done that.
Does it work withg iView?
Sounds like good features for the price. I have a Samsung blu-ray, and it is horribly slow, the remote unresponsive, and it fatally freezes if I leave it on pause for more than 5 minutes. On the upside, most Samsung blu-rays can be made region-free for DVD's very easily.