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Samsung BD-F6500 review

Our Rating :
Price when reviewed : £95
inc VAT

All the features you could want at a great price. You can’t get better for less

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VIDEO QUALITY

As for Blu-ray playback, we were impressed with the BD-F6500’s speed. It loads 2D discs in around six seconds, which is far faster than many other players. However, the BD-F6500 took around 12 seconds to start our Avatar 3D disc.

Even at default settings, the BD-F6500 looks superb, with crisp visuals and plenty of contrast to reveal the shadow detail in darker scenes. Colours were accurate, if a little oversaturated at the default settings, but there are several presets for you to select. Beyond the Standard, Movie and dynamic presets, which make colours look neutral, subdued and overly vibrant respectively, a fourth user mode gives you control over sharpness, noise reduction, contrast, brightness, colour and tint.

If you have a Samsung TV that supports it, you can use the BD Wise setting to calibrate the picture automatically, but we found image quality looked worse than our own custom settings when paired to a 2011-model Samsung D8000 TV. It’s certainly worth experimenting with Blu-ray player and TV to get the best picture. Even though the BD-F6500 provides many image quality settings, its image quality is great at its default factory settings, so you may not even need to alter them.

The detail enhancement settings create a sharper image when playing standard definition DVDs, but we noticed that it also introduced slightly more noise to the picture. The noise is hardly noticeable in motion, however, so this feature’s worth turning on if you have a large DVD collection.

CONCLUSION

It might not have all the advanced image quality features found in either Panasonic or Sony’s Blu-ray decks, but the comprehensive smart TV services, integrated Wi-Fi and understated design more than make up for it, especially if you’re upgrading from a first-generation Blu-ray player. The Samsung BD-F6500 is exceptional value and a Best Buy winner.

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Details

Award Best Buy
Price £95
Rating *****

Buying Information

Price £95
Warranty one year RTB
Supplier http://www.richersounds.com
Details www.samsung.co.uk

Features and Connections

Blu-ray profile 5.0
HDMI outputs 1
HDMI Version 1.4
Component outputs 0
S-video output 0
Composite outputs 0
Stereo phono outputs 0
Coaxial S/PDIF outputs 0
Optical S/PDIF outputs 1
Wired network ports 1x 10/100
Wireless standard 802.11n
USB ports 1
Mass storage support yes
Supported memory cards none

Video, Audio and Photo

Video playback formats DivX HD, MPEG2, MPEG4, MKV, M4V, WMV HD, XviD
Image viewing formats JPEG, BMP, PNG
Audio playback formats MP3, WMA, WAV, AAC, OGG, FLAC
YouTube streaming yes

Audio

Dynamic Range Control yes
Dolby TrueHD support yes
DTS-HD MA support yes

Physical

Power consumption standby 0W
Power consumption on 13W
Size 360x196x40mmmm

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