BLU-RAY PLAYER Samsung BD-C7500 3D

The Samsung BD-C7500 is the most eye catching of the new line of blu-ray players from Korean electronics giant Samsung. Samsung touts it as the world’s slimmest blu-ray player garnering a CES 2010 Innovations Honoree in the Video Components product category. Beneath its stunningly beautiful ‘nature inspired’ exterior, the C7500 offers a new multimedia experience that goes well beyond traditional Blu-ray players.

Design

The Samsung BD-C7500 is a beautiful looking player measuring only 1.1 inches in height. This ultra-slim player features an elegant wood-like paneling finished with jewel-like gloss. Designed to be wall-mounted, placed on a 25-degree angle stand or just flat, it is easy to match it with any home decor. The disc tray slides out to the right of the player.
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The new GUI is a marked improvement on the previous Samsung players with a more pictorial approach. You can even select the appearance from a choice of four skins. Samsung has also designed their new players with improved energy efficiency by using new technologies such as loader duty control, low voltage spindle motor, and analog video detect, which contribute to a reduced power consumption of 13W during disc playback, and just 0.1W in stand-by mode. The player is compliant to the more stringent EnergyStar® 4.0 guidelines.

Features

The BD-C7500 comes with built-in Wi-Fi support and Samsung’s latest incarnation of Internet@TV, which puts more widgets on your screen and opens up each app much faster. New for Internet@TV is Samsung Apps which provides you with an expanded, easy to navigate selection of content and applications from leading services such as Accedo Broadband, AccuWeather.com, The Associated Press, Blockbuster, Fashion TV, Netflix, Picasa, Pandora, Rovi, Travel Channel, Twitter, USA TODAY, and Vudu.
The BD-C7500 features improved disc load and boot up times, while the 1080p playback reproduces movie images at 24 fps without need for up-conversion, resulting in a natural on-screen motion. It also comes with 1GB of internal memory to facilitate access to BD-Live content.
On the audio front the BD-C7500 comes with support for all the high-resolution audio codecs including Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio.

Bottom Line

If you are into aesthetics and want a player to jive up your living room this is the player to watch out for. However, if you watch movies in a dedicated home theater room, fork out the extra dough for the 3-D capable BD-C6900 or save some money with the BD-C6500 which has the same specs and features

Key Features

  • World's Thinnest Blu-ray Player
  • Wall Mountable
  • Supports Internet@TV/Samsung Apps, which will provide content from Netflix, Pandora, Vudu, Blockbuster, Picasa, and Twitter
  • Fast disc load
  • Built-in Wi-Fi
  • EnergyStar® 4.0 Compliant

Specifications

  • Full HD 1080p/24
  • Playback Media : BD, BD-R, BD-RE, DVD-V, DVD-R, DVD-RW, CD, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA, MP3, JPEG
  • Built-in Audio Decoders : Dolby TrueHD, Dolby Digital, DTS-HD decoder, Dolby Digital Plus
  • BD profile : BD-Live (2.0)
  • DVD Upconversion : Yes (up to 1080p)
  • Output Resolution : 720p, 1080i, 1080p
  • 1GB Media Storage