The Gadget: Samsung's startlingly attenuate BD-P4600 "Touch of Color" affiliated Blu-ray player—geared to a style-conscious client who brand blind electronics on walls.
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The Price: $500 for style, connectedness and decent—but not perfect—video book support
The Verdict: It's a crazy, abrupt section of hardware, so attenuate and ablaze that the columnist photos don't absolutely do it justice. Still, aback it basically does the aforementioned affair as Samsung's cheaper BD-P3600, and LG's new active and wireless Blu-ray players, I can't advice but anticipate the $500 sticker amount will be a bit prohibitive for anyone not application it as a adorning wall-hanging piece.
Setup was easy. It comes pre-loaded with Netflix and Pandora, and I aboriginal affiliated it via Ethernet to a sweet Linksys Powerline adapter which ran bench to my router, and was active with HD 30 Rock episodes in no time. Not apathy what Samsung wants us all to remember, that this is a Blu-ray player, I popped in T2, and anon saw Arnold arising naked from a aqueous apple of energy.
Despite its thinness, the rear fan (which you see in the gallery) was not blatant at all. I had a cine arena at a low volume, and could apprehend everything, and couldn't analyze the fan's white babble from the added white babble in the house.
My alone agitation I had was with networking. It says on the box "Wireless" but if you accessible it up, you acquisition it requires a abstracted Wi-Fi dongle. My arch bound did the math: "Consumer-electronics software additional constituent dongle equals alarm to tech support." Sure enough, even admitting it accustomed my SSID and let me ascribe a countersign just fine, it was clumsy to connect. (The solution, it angry out, was to access my arrangement countersign beneath WPA2 instead of WPA.) The added awe-inspiring affair about the wireless dongle is that it acutely wasn't advised for this wall-hanging player—if you accept it acquainted in on the ancillary USB port, you can't columnist the amateur even adjoin the wall.
The affable abruptness was that the video decoder can apprehend XviD and DivX movies, at atomic the ones I tested. It wasn't down with DivX 7 MKV, but it admired some earlier AVIs. It aswell didn't like H.264, but for some acumen that seems to be a harder codec for these off-the-shelf software players to master. MP3s played fine, admitting it was filenames only—no metadata for you.
What's the takeaway? For movies, even ill-gotten ones, it's a acceptable box. Netflix and Pandora are absolutely alone the beginning, too. If Amazon Video on Demand is already on Panasonic, Sony, TiVo and Roku products, it's absolutely a amount of time afore they assurance with Ole Sammy. Ditto for Rhapsody, which seems to acquisition its way into a lot of affiliated devices.
In the end, it makes faculty if you accept a simple bedchamber bureaucracy that you don't wish to blend up with a big "entertainment center." But buck in mind, if you bank mout, you still accept to anguish about the affairs advancing out of the back, and until they accomplish a burnished glassy cable box to go with, you're consistently gonna accept something beefy beneath your TV set. [Product Page]
In Summary
Not alone stylish, but quiet and lightweight—easy abundant to adhere on a wall.
Netflix and Pandora are currently the alone net media alive apps, but we apprehend added to come.
Wi-Fi and added networking appearance are not for amateurs, but if you amount it out, you can watch XviDs streamed from a PC.
Amount is appealing abuse high, and abounding functions can be begin in added products.
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