Samsung Electronics UBD-K8500 3D Wi-Fi 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Player (2016 Model)

This player is inexcusably slow. It takes about a second for a button press on the remote to register and take effect. This makes navigating disc menus very difficult and annoying. Also, the remote does not have a fast foward button. Instead, you have to hold the next scene button, which puts it into fast forward mode. But, if you dont hold the button long enough, then it registers a next scene press taking you to an entirely new section of the movie. Once the disc actually starts playing, the player is fine. But the UI on this thing is just terrible and for that reason, it should be avoided.

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Player is fully functional and does what its supposed to. However, the user interface is unbeliveably bad. Any time you touch a key on the remote, it puts an overlay on the screen, obscuring part of the picture. Plus, apparently for no reason, they decided you dont need a fast forward or fast reverse button. Theyve combined the function with the chapter forward and backward buttons. To make the various functions work, youre supposed to hold down the buttons for just the right amount of time. Its not that the player is incapable of handling these functions. I was able to set a universal remote to send the proper signal for fast forward and reverse in response to its appropriately labeled buttons.

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