Samsung BD-E5400 Wi-Fi Blu-ray Player (Black)

• Wi-Fi Built-In
• AllShare
• Apps for Streaming (Netflix, Pandora, YouTube)

Had bought another Brand and had problems with it and had to return it. Then decided to Buy this one instead and did not have a single problem. works great and very happy with it.

Would recommend this item if you are looking for a smaler blue-ray player. This player does not take up a lot of space at all

Great service and fast shipping. i would buy from them again... 5 stars

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I purchased this Blu-ray to replace a broken PS3; that PS3 was the only Blu-ray player I personally owned and used for years. I purchased this Blu-ray player to play Blu-ray movies and DVDs, so I won't be going deep into detail about the apps.

This player does not come with an HDMI cable, if you're wondering. However, it does come packaged with a remote and batteries. You also get a user manual, which is only in English. There are two insignificant ads included, as well. That is all that is packaged, so it's fairly simple.

The Blu-ray player is very small. I didn't measure it, but it's a lot smaller than my original PS3 and slightly bigger than a Nintendo Wii. The surface/top of the player is glossy, so you can see your reflection and fingerprints. The player looks very sleek, overall. I really liked the small design.

The set-up was very simple, and lasted less than 5 minutes. I'm not sure what type of WiFi this uses, though. I used my Nokia Lumia 710's internet tethering to briefly connect to the internet, but had to turn off my password/security capabilities. There was an update available, but it did not state what it was for. I updated, regardless.

I briefly tested the YouTube app. It took a few seconds to launch and the videos loaded slowly; this is most likely because of the WiFi I was using. Navigating the menus was a bit sluggish, but eventually became a bit smoother. There are 5 apps available: Netflix, Pandora, CinemaNow, Vudu, and YouTube. I can only see myself using the apps on the Blu-ray if my Xbox 360 did not work; but, again, this is not an issue personally because I purchased this for Blu-rays and Dvds.

The Blu-ray player works as expected. I first booted up "28 Days Later", and I could barely hear it; my PS3 was noisy, and I recently heard a Panasonic Blu-ray player that was a lot louder. So, it's an almost silent Blu-ray player. There is very little lag when skipping chapter or navigating menus. I also tested a South Korean Blu-ray, Memories of Murder (also Region A, but wanted to be safe); this blu-ray also worked. However, I couldn't turn on the subtitles through the remote for some reason like I could on the PS3, which meant I couldn't turn on the subtitles at all because of the foreign language menu. I deducted one point from my overall score because of this. Performance-wise, the picture quality and sound quality is the same as the PS3, or any other 1080p Blu-ray player, I'd expect.

Overall, the Blu-ray player gets the job done; it plays the Blu-rays with very few flaws and looks sleek while doing it. I should also mention, the system and the movies boot up quickly without being loud about it, which is a big plus. It does everything I want it to do, and has exceeded my expectations.

I highly recommend this Blu-ray player.

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First off, there are a lot of misinformation about this device. I primarily needed a 2nd BD player that has the capability of web browsing, streaming and playing files from a USB flash memory. At first, it would have seem like this would have fit the bill. Amazon does not have the specs for this model in their Samsung Disc Player Comparison chart.

WiFi

You cannot connect this to a wireless network that has WEP/ WPA/ WPA2 security. It can only connect to WPS. I have an older router that works perfectly fine for my needs, but now I have to change the security (basically remove security and use MAC filtering).

AllShare

This device does not have the Samsung Smart Hub or AllShare Play. I have a NAS, Win 7, Mac and it was able to detect only my Win 7 machine but it cannot play anything from my media server. I tried installing the AllShare program and it still was not able to play anything. Because it does not have SmartHub, it cannot install any other application (Amazon Instant Video for one)

Web Browsing

This device does not have any web browsing capability

Blu-Ray

It performs well enough. It boots fast.

Media from USB flash drive

It works great. Read my MKV and AVI files, although my MKV looked very choppy on screen. The AVI files looked great and it also has a function to reduce sharpness/choppiness of the file. It stretched it to 16:9

I am very disappointed with the product because of the lack of information about this on the product page would have prevented me from buying it in the first place. In addition, the difficulty to setup with existing/older generation WiFi and to my NAS was also a let down.

I am returning the product.

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This is my first Amazon.com product review. I bought this item with a special Holiday Savings price of $67.99. I used $55.00 of Amazon.com gift card codes that I had won from on-line contests, so my out of pocket expense total for the BD-E5400 was only $12.99 delivered to my door! I have used the BD-E5400 Blu-ray player for about a week now to play a half dozen or so Blu-ray movies that I borrowed from the public library they have all run perfectly. I'm not sure if Blu-ray movies/players in general have an issue with allowing you to access the 'top menu' or not, but I have been unable to do this with the BD-E5400 Blu-ray player, so I dropped my rating to 4 stars. This issue also applies to trying to skip promos and ads on the disc once you put a disc in this player you have to watch all the intro stuff before you are able to access the movie menu with the remote controller. Maybe I am just not using the remote controller correctly, but using the 'disc menu' button gave me an error message. I found that the Blu-ray discs load quickly and quietly in the BD-E5400. My last Samsung DVD player (regular DVD only) sounds like it is grinding things up as it loads menus, changes between features, etc. the BD-E5400 player is MUCH quieter. I don't have a Netflix or Pandora account, but I was able to enter my wireless router code and watch You Tube videos using this Blu-ray player on my Panasonic HD 1080 television with no problem my only gripe is it does not seem to store the wireless code and if I turn my computer off, I have to re-enter the wireless code again. This really isn't a big deal for me, because I only bought this Blu-ray player to watch movies on disc (Blu-ray or regular DVD). I found that this product also plays regular DVD movies without any problems. The picture quality for Blu-ray, DVD and You Tube videos has been excellent. I hope you found this review to be helpful cheers! Update: After watching the new Disney film 'Secret of the Wings' on Blu-Ray last night, I changed my rating to five stars. The picture quality was amazing! The Disc Menu button worked fine for this film and also for 'Pirates of the Caribbean Stranger Tides', so the problem (accessing the movie menu easily) I had with the other films must have been the way those discs were coded! Update I have now used this for wireless Netflix and it works perfectly. No streaming issues or delays. This may be the best $12.99 I ever spent.

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I expect more than this from Samsung, When using Netflix I am almost guaranteed to have the movie lockup. I've tried updating the firmware, it can't be the Wi-Fi as it is only 4 foot away. It's just a great disappointment to have such low quality from such a big company.