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Thereare few A/V products these days that I really get excited about.When Oppo released the BDP-95, I was pretty eager to get my hands onone. As you can see, the player performed flawlessly in our benchtests. It did everything the venerable BDP-83SE did but added morefeatures such as 3D support, better analog bass management and theability to support more streaming services such as Netflix,Blockbuster, Youtube and now Pandora.
Ipressed the signal info button on my Yamaha remote to confirm I wasdigitally connected via HDMI and it displayed PCM as I anticipated. Ialso took advantage of the excellent analog outputs of my BDP-95 byconnecting it up to a second zone which happens to be my workoutroom. Pandora sounds a lot better now overlayed in PLIIx Music Modewhen digitally connected to my Yammie receiver. The bass is deeperand more pronounced and everything just sounds cleaner overall.
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Black Friday kicked off with $25 Blu-ray discs of Jurassic World going for $10 at Best Buy, launching a Blu-ray buying binge that lasted throughout the holidays. Amazon followed up with 12 Days of Deals, featuring slashed prices for more Blu-ray discs. These holiday sales herald the anticipated release of 4K ultra-HD Blu-ray players and discs early this year. As we kick-off 2016, here is the current state of the Blu-ray market and some trends you can expect to see.
For gaming enthusiasts, CNET recommends the Sony PlayStation 3 Super Slim 250 GB Uncharted 3 Limited Edition Bundle. The Samsung BD-H6500, Simple.TV 2, and Slingbox M1, also rate high among top players.
Many gaming consoles double as excellent Blu-ray and streaming content players. The Xbox One and PlayStation 4 can play the latest games along with Blu-ray discs and DVDs, plus streaming content from video and music services such as Netflix, Hulu Plus and Crackle. For a lower price point, the PlayStation 3 also plays Blu-ray discs and offers some streaming services.
Samsung announced in September that its first 4K Blu-ray player would debut in early 2016. Sony has likewise announced that its first 4K Blu-ray discs will become available in early 2016. The first wave of content will be led by Amazing Spider-Man 2 and other relatively recent releases, to be followed up with older titles such as Ghostbusters.
I have an older model home theatre system model #HTB-C5500 I have the screen come up Please activate Internet@TV Service. When I go to internet tv page I get a prompt to connect to the internet and enjoy variety of contents through Internet TV. That prompt will not go away . I've manually reset my clock and done everything in what helped others with their issues to no avail. Is there any resolution at all or is my player so old and outdated it's just a paper weight?? My goal is to be able to watch Hulu and Disney + for myself and my Grands. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
Due to this being an older unit, Hulu opted not to continue support on legacy devices. Disney+ only opted to have the app available on newer devices. A lot of the streaming applications that used to work, have updated a lot of their interfaces, these updates are not compatible with legacy model televisions, which is why a lot of them have decided to no longer support these platforms.
We apologize for any inconveniences that you're experiencing, some alternative options that you could use would be a Roku, Firestick, or other streaming device to connect to your current Samsung television.
Strangely this is not a TV, but a Blue ray player. As for the issue it's self, it has origins as far back as 2013. There also seems to be a similar problem with the C6500 model as well. Much has been written about it on several forums. Most seem centered around settings on the systems Page an time setting.
Thank you for this information. This forum is for the support of US products and customers. As your product is a non-US model and support for these models is very limited, please seek a support team for your area. You can do so by using this link:
I haver the same issue. I have an older Blu-ray player Home Theater System HT-C5500. It includes 6 speakers and sounds great. It used ti have various internet features like Netflix and Pandora. I accidently changed the screen size yesterday and the only way to reset it was to reset the whole unit back to factory settings. When I did that I lost Netflix and Pandora. I get the same thing as you when I go to Internet@TV. Just a screen with a message to "Connect to the internet...."
I have a Blue Ray player BD-C5500 that is also having the same issue. I am wondering how to activate my Internet@TV service. It used to work about 8 years ago. Has anyone figured out how to active their Internet@TV service? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Over the weekend I picked up the new D-Link MovieNite streaming media player, a $48 box developed in conjunction with Walmart and sold exclusively in their stores and via the Walmart.com website. Of all the streaming media devices I have reviewed and tested, I don't think I've ever told readers not to buy something, until today. For what is suppose to be a very simple player aimed at a non-techie crowd, this player falls far short in just about every category and is not worth the money.
The player supports 1080p video streaming and has 802.11n WiFi, 10/100 ethernet port, HDMI out and composite video connections. The player only supports content from Netflix, Vudu, YouTube and Pandora and has no support to play back local content via USB and no slot for any kind of memory card. While some of those shortcomings would be just fine for someone who only wants to use it to stream movies and TV shows from Netflix and Vudu, I'm afraid even those simple tasks are painful with this player.
The box supports 802.11n, yet no matter what I tried I could not get it to connect to my WiFi network. Another issue is that the name of WiFi networks are cut off, with my network only showing up as two letters in the name, out of seven. Putting in a call to D-Link's tech support number was no help as they couldn't solve the problem. My router sits ten feet from the box, has ten other devices that can connect to it via WiFi, yet the D-Link player kept telling me it could not connect to the network. D-Link support had me reset the box over and over again, with no luck. They then asked me to wait on hold for at least 30 minutes while they "called headquarters", but I declined to wait. On a side note, I know that most companies these days outsource tech support calls to foreign countries to save money, but trying to diagnose a tech issue, with someone who does not speak English fluently, is never a good user experience.
Hoping my WiFi issues were just a software problem that could be resolved with a firmware update, I tried to update the box under the maintenance option, but was given an error message of "Memory space is not enough for upgrade! Do you want to reboot now?" So if you can't download updates for the box, I'm not sure how D-Link expects to ever add fixes and features? For my last option, I actually broke out the printed three page Quick Install Guide in the box, but that was useless. But I did get a good laugh when step three told me not to plug in an ethernet cable if I wanted to use WiFi as the "on-screen setup wizard will allow you to configure your wireless settings". Now I get what they were saying, but if this box is really targeting non-techie's, step four should not be telling you to plug in the power supply when step three is talking about an on-screen setup wizard.
Giving up on trying to connect the box via WiFi I plugged in an ethernet cable which saw my network right away. Since the box only supports four content services, the remote has dedicated buttons for Netflix, Vudu, YouTube and Pandora. The bad news is that the software interface for this box is slow and buggy. Netflix takes nearly twenty seconds to load and videos take much longer to start up when compared with the Roku or WD TV Live player. D-Link does have a note on their website saying that they have released a product software update that resolves issues with streaming content from Netflix, but they don't say what issues they are fixing and there is no way to force download the update.
To get the update on the box D-Link says to "reboot it by powering it off and then back on, wait for the update message to appear, and select ok." Problem is I don't get that message when I reboot it and I have no way to know if that means I already have the update or not. The entire user-experience with this product was not well thought out and it's a really poor interface. I don't know why this box is so slow, but there is a lot of lag time with the software and the box froze on me twice, forcing me to pull the power plug.
Overall, there is nothing to like about this box and consumers would do far better spending $30 more for a Roku HD. And if 1080p isn't required, you can get a Roku LT for the same price as this box, which will also give you hundreds of content channels, instead of only four. The only advantage D-Link's MovieNite box has over Roku is their support for YouTube, something Roku is still missing for some unknown reason.
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