Very pleased with the video quality. This is our first Blu-ray player. Thus far, we have only played DVD's from our existing collection and a few Blu-ray discs that have been purchased since receiving the Samsung player. The upscaling when playing the DVD's really increases the enjoyment in watching the movies. The Blu-ray movies have also been enjoyable - especially where there is outdoor scenery such as mountains, canyons, forests, etc. One thing I have noticed is the video quality when playing older movies. We have played the movie "Midway" in both DVD and Blu-ray format since receiving the player. The difference in the video quality seems insignificant. But, newer movies seem to have so much more clarity and perceived depth perception. All in all, a good entertainment investment!

This product was easy to install, had all of the correct audio and Video hookups, easy to program. This DVD play works great on old discs as well as new Blue-ray Discs, delivers ES-Matrix 6.1 sound and video to my Ultra HD TV. Good buy.

Bought about a month ago. Still cant get over how incredible thw picture quality is. It's amazing. We already had a Samsung bluray player with surround sound and it paired up instantly with it and it's an awesome setup.

Purchased the UBD-K8500 at the end of 2016. Easy setup right out of the box using the default settings for viewers that do not like to mess with all of the detail settings. l like to get the best possible picture quality so I wanted to calibrate the picture settings between my new UBD-K8500 HDR 4K with my Samsung JS9000 SUHD TV. There is no UHD configuration disk that I know of at this time so I did the following steps below if you are interested. First I connected the main HDMI output directly to the TV HDMI 1 and the 2nd Audio HDMI directly to my AV receiver. All my other devices go through my A/V receiver first and one HDMI output to the TV HDMI 4 input. I started out with the Disney WOW Blu-Ray as the starting point for the calibration between the Samsung UBD-K8500 and Samsung JS9000 SUHD. Once I was happly with those settings I then did a few fine tune adjustments when watching sections of UHD movies (The Revenant & Suicide Squad) The biggest change was setting Smart LED "On-Standard" to reduce LED light clouding on dark scenes. I ended up with these settings and used the default setting if not listed below. All settings were done in a pitch dark room for movie watching. Samsung UBD-K8500 Settings: TV Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Original BD Wise: On Resolution: BD Wise HDMI Color Format: Auto HDMI Deep Color: Auto Samdung JS9000 Settings : First thing - change the "HDMI UHD Color" to ON for the HDMI input you are using. The TV will power off and on. Also make sure BD Wise is turned "ON" in the General settings. Picture Mode: Movie Blacklight: 18 Contrast: 100 Brightness: 45 - 47 Sharpness: 0 Dynamic Contrast: Off Black Tone: Off Color Space: Auto White Balance: 2 Point Auto Motion Plus: Standard Smart LED: Standard Cinema Black; On (I liked this setting because the black bars at top and bottom were nice and black)

This thing is great. Hooked to my 65js9000 with bd wise. Needed a little adjustment but picture quality is the best I've ever seen. Sound is perfect watched 4K ultra chappie looked amazing and Dolby atmos sounded great. I see people saying the disc is dead but until we can stream better audio codecs I'll stick to discs. I'm a fan of good big speakers not much on soundbar gimmick.

Easy to setup and use, with a good web browser and a variety of pre-installed apps. Outstanding video and sound. With razor sharpness and vivid, bright colors, I did not discern any difference in picture quality between the theatrical version of "The Martian" and my Ultra HD edition. Nice touch with an optional separate HDMI audio output. 4K YouTube videos display at their absolute best on my 60 inch 4K monitor. Prepare for sticker shock for the privilege of being the first owner on your block.

We love this product. The only down side, if I can call it that, is that the “buttons” are just touch buttons. If you badly skim by them, they engage.

The picture and sound are great from this player, but as another reviewer said, there are a couple of BIG flaws with this player. The remote just doesn't let one control enough. Also, we like skipping most of the coming attractions at the beginnings of our videos. Not on this player!!! The pop-up says the disc won't allow it. However, when I use an old player, no problem.

About a week or so ago, I noticed that theres was loud static coming from my TV while discs were loading. Today, I tried to play a disc and couldn't get any picture to display. I can't even get the home screen to appear. When I first start the player, I can see the 4K UHD logo for a couple of seconds but after that nothing. I now seem to have an expensive paperweight. Guess it's time to navigate Samsung's horribly designed site to put in a service request.

The features of this replacement player are way overstated. Although being at least 6 years more in state of the art progress, this new one does not perform any better than my old one. And, I paid a lot more for this one, thinking I would see better picture and sound.