Samsung BD-F5700 Wi-Fi Blu-Ray Player (2013 Model)

I recently purchased this Samsung Blu-Ray/DVD player at I am quite happy with its performance. I should say that I only use this unit to play Blu-Ray/DVD discs and have not made use of any of its many other features. As a player though I must say it excels! Picture and sound quality are beautiful and bring new life to old DVDs. It will also play anything. I even had some old scratched DVD-Rs that I made years ago that the Samsung played without a hitch. Reading some of the negative reviews my only concern was for the noise level of the unit (which is a pet peeve of mine). Some reviewers complained that it was very loud and could be heard over the TV. Those reviewers must have received a defective unit, my Samsung is extremely quiet. Numerous times while playing a disc I muted the television audio and still couldn’t hear the player! I am very pleased with my Samsung BD-F5700 Wi-Fi Blu-Ray Player and believe you will be too!

Samsung is a great company, their tech support is awesome. I purchased this not only for the blueray player but also it access my home nas to play movies from it since our "smart tv" doesn't read some of the movie formats. So far it has worked wonderful, plug it in and tv saw it right away popped in a blueray it was fast to load up and played great picture was awsome!! Then came the really challange I went into the menu, found the network and there it was my nas that easy. I clicked on several different movies all with different file formats and they all played!!! There is only one little thing that gets me and its the power button on top. Its just a touch button so if i accidently brush over it while dusting or reaching over it to the computer setup next to it, it turns on.

Ok here it is, i read tons of reviews on this before buying it so im going to address some of the negative comments i read and explain: Its noisy: the DVD player part of it is VERY noisy as it gets the disc set up to play after you get out of a disc menu by pressing the play the loud vibrating noise STOPS and it is followed by a very pleasantly mild whir like what you hear in most players when the start up. Its slow: the apps are slow moving because of how you have to select letters one at a time on the keyboard provided on the search menu with the arrow pad. Also menu selections are slightly delayed and the powering up takes several seconds to respond. The app accounts such as netflix dont save your info: this is BULL they absolutely do, even if the plug is pulled most of the time it still remembers. Again there may be a glitch in the machine if it is not saving your info. You have to update the system and its a pain: AGAIN total BULL i think whoever said this may have accidentally done their review on this machine when they actually purchased something else because updating the system takes MAYBE 2 or 3 minutes and is super easy, my six year old was able to do. Now for my view on other aspects. The netflix app seems to glitch out a LOT as in having problems loading or dropping out. I am convinced that it is my internet and/or the netflix server being overworked but i cannot be sure. The majority of the time it works and works well. My six year old are able to easily navigate all the channel apps and do so everyday it is not a difficult system and it plays movies even better. It is a great little system and VERY worth the money.

EDITED 1/30/2015 I just discovered something AMAZING ... I would increase my rating to six stars if I could. THIS PLAYER HAS A MULTI-DISC MEMORY! I was watching a Christmas movie when my brother came for a visit, I paused my movie at 0:55:15. My brother brought Addams Family, so I ejected my Xmas movie and we watched Addams Family, then I ejected it and returned it to him. Two days later, I put my Christmas movie back in, and it resumed playing at 0:55:15, even though the player had been off for the prior 36 hours. Hey, Samsung, this is a great feature. I love it. I wonder how many discs it might remember (but I'm not going to try to test it.) I STILL AGREE WITH MY PRIOR REVIEW: This is a wonderful player. I have it and my Amazon Fire TV box hooked up to my 40" bare bones LCD HD television, so I have a choice of watching movies and shows with streaming, or I can pop in one of my growing collection of discs. Plus, because it's WiFi enabled, I can stream content through the Blu-Ray Player, too, so I can move this to another TV in the house and have streaming content on two different televisions. I have not had any problems with it, except that I need to learn the rather complicated remote control. This is the first disc-player remote control I've ever seen with more than 44 buttons. (It has 45). But I can't cut it down in the ratings for that, because I'm sure that many younger users take to the complicated tech more readily than I do. (I'm 62 and I consider myself to be pretty tech-savvy, but things do require learning.) 2015 UPDATE: I'm now 63. I still haven't learned more than a few buttons on that remote control. I discovered that there is actually an eject button on the player itself. I just hadn't noticed it because I left the plastic circle in place covering the power, eject button, etc. BUT I found a nice trick. I have two monitors hooked up to my computer. I'm currently using my ASUS HDMI monitor in VGA mode with the computer, so I now have the Blu-Ray hooked up to its HDMI port, so I can watch Blu-Ray discs from the side of my right eye while I'm working on the computer with my other one-and-a-half eyes. John

This replaced a Sony unit that was one of the earliest Blu-Ray players. The old unit took well over a minute to boot up, this one does it it in seconds. It's very compact and small. The WiFi works well, we can connect to Netflix and such to view movies with ease. Blu-Ray players have evolved and are better now than when we first bought one, and this unit, which got high ratings by most other user reviews, seems to offer excellent performance at a silly low price. Ask me in a year about durability but Samsung has been very solid with their products. Recommended. Not a 3D or other highly-featured unit, but if you just want to play DVDs, Blu-Ray and regular, this one does the job well, fun to use, low price. A no-brainer….

Its a nice little blu ray looks-wise. I bought it thinking it would do better than my LG blu ray with a built in wi-fi because it kept disconnecting when I was watching Cinema Now...sometimes not at all. However I was never able to truly connect with this one either to where I was trying to connect to. I expected better than this from Samsung. It works fine though otherwise and does the job. I downloaded the updates but it didn't change anything as far as the wifi. I do like the design, however, I wish it had a display that shows it is actually on. There is this teeny tiny little dot on the top far right that does sorta light up in blue when it is on, other than that, you aren't sure it is off or on sometimes. I think they should have had more of a display in the front-would have been nice. That much I miss,. I wanted a Samsung because my TV is a Samsung and both remotes work on each item and that makes it handy. Nonetheless not sure why it won't quite connect. I will try again later. My TV is a Smart Tv and it does connect well with the wifi so now I don't even need the wifi in the blu ray I suppose. EDIT: I cannot recommend this player. For some weird reason, probably at least 4 times a month it just won't play a blurau..there is a blank screen and I can't get it to play and the only solution is to unplug it completely and then plug it in again and that fixes the problem. Makes not sense at all. You can't turn it off you have to unplug. It won't even let you eject..you still have to unplug and replug again.

I love being able to stream Netflix through my dumb TV! This Blu-ray player really does make my dumb tv smart :) I love that it's wireless. I bought a refurbished player and so far so good. I've had it over a month. I did have problems at first getting it to work just cause the previous owners passwords were still in the saved settings and even though I'd reset the unit it wouldn't get rid of them. Finally got it to work by pressing and holding the stop button for 8 sec, that REALLY reset the unit back to factory (even though I was resetting it thought the settings when the unit was on before...just didn't work doing it that way). Works great now! Picture quality is amazing! I love the coaxial audio output. This is my first Blu-ray player so maybe I'm just in awe haha!

This unit does what it's meant to do, but there are a few niggling little issues that make me wish I'd bought something better. Pros: -it's cheap -it's small -it's easy to setup and use -the DVD/BluRay player component is solid -it has a built-in Netflix app (and a few others that I haven't used), the basic functionality of which works well Cons: -it does not come with an HDMI cable. You'll have to buy one if you don't have one lying around. -the eject button is not very responsive. I often have to hit it multiple times. -the disc tray is very shallow. If you aren't very precise when putting the disc into the tray, it won't lay flat in the indentation, and then when you hit the close button, the disc will get jammed and the tray won't close all the way. It doesn't get stuck there -- just press 'open' and you're back in business. But it seems like a disc could easily get scratched in this way, and the tray could break. It's embarrassing to admit, but I've had this problem two or three times in the few months that I've had this player. -The Netflix app is missing some minor functionality. I bought this after selling my PS3, which had a regularly updated Netflix app. Unlike the PS3 app, the one here does not have skip functionality (so you can't skip over the credit sequence of a TV show you're binge-watching), and it takes a second or two to respond when using the pause button (a small thing, but maddening). -You're stuck with the apps it comes with. I didn't think this was going to be a problem for me, but soon found myself wanting the MLB.tv app. No such luck. In retrospect, I wish I'd splurged on a unit with more capability.