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)

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.

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.

Happy with the quality of the product until remote stopped working. Finding out this is a common problem. Stopped working all of the time and getting worse as time goes on. Also not happy with the size of the remote larger fingers pushed multiple buttons at once.

Videophiles rejoice! Samsung's new Ultra HD Blu-ray player takes 4K viewing to even bigger and better new heights than ever before. My player is connected to a top tier 2015 model Samsung 65 inch 4K UHDTV. Seriously, first time viewing of 4K content via this device is almost like owning a brand new 4K UHDTV all over again. The new 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray disc format is one of a kind in both video and audio quality. So far, I've viewed two 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray discs - The Martian and San Andreas. The picture quality is unrivaled. Yes, it certainly does top any type of online 4K streaming option. I own a Dolby Atmos home theater system. In addition to superior picture quality, the true Dolby Atmos audio is unsurpassed. Also, 4K up-conversion of 1080p Blu-ray discs is superior to any previous up-converting Blu-ray player. When I viewed the movie Straight Outta Compton, it looked as close to 4K as any non-4K source I've ever seen. Viewing 4K content via the player's built-in Smart Hub apps produces visually better quality than directly via the TV's built-in apps, primarily due to the player's excellent processor and the ability to utilize the extra rich UHD Color function on the Samsung TV. YouTube 4K, Netflix 4K and Amazon 4K content looks incredible! The only strike against this new player is its undersized, limited function remote control, which has no backlighting feature and only has chapter skip buttons. To fast forward or rewind, the buttons must be held down for two seconds. Personally, I prefer using an "old school" full function Samsung remote with real backlit buttons. All in all, if you're an enthusiast of top notch 4K picture quality, this player will impress in almost every category.

I've had this Ultra HD 4K Blu-ray player for about 2 weeks, and I've been watching 2 to 3 movies every day since I bought it. I really can't find anything negative to say about it, other than it would've been nice if the remote was backlit. Picture quality is amazing and when you connect it to a home theater receiver the sound quality is amazing as well. It also does an excellent job of upscaling regular Blu-ray discs, and the rest of the other features are very good as well.

Watching movies in UHD HDR is a whole new world of picture quality. It blows away standard 1080P Blu-Ray discs. As long as you have an HDR and WCG TV you are really going to enjoy this product.

With this 4K blu Ray player and my 4K TV movies look amazing. Watching a 4K HDR movie can't be compare with 1080p. You can see the details in the picture and with HDR colors look more vivid and blacks are deep. I have a 65 Samsung SUHD

Works well for DVDs, but using the internet functions leaves much to be desired.

nice and sleek. my husband wanted this blue ray player.