Samsung UBD-M9000/XU 4K Blu Ray Smart Hub Disc/DVD Player with Ethernet and Wi-Fi - Black

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Samsung have also given the menu system an update, keeping the easy to setup approach of the K8500 but adding a few new features as well. The basic menu layout is similar and crucially all of the key options default to their auto settings, which means that the player will just optimise the output automatically to match the capabilities of your display. What this means in practice is that the resolution, the frame rate, the HDR and the colour gamut will all be set by the player depending on the EDID information delivered by the display. Although you can select things like resolution and colour format separately we would simply recommended leaving the settings on Auto because the M9500 did an excellent job of optimising itself for all the displays with which we tested the player.

Samsung has wisely switched to the Eden user interface (powered by the Tizen OS) introduced on its 2016 Smart TVs. As a result, the UBD-M9500 is a dream to use, offering greater flexibility and better-looking menus than the UBD-K8500. In terms of actual features the main one is clearly support for 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, with its increased resolution, 10-bit video, wider colour gamut, high dynamic range (specifically HDR 10) and HEVC decoding. The M9500 will optimise Ultra HD content to the native capabilities of your display and also down convert HDR automatically if your TV doesn't support that feature. This year Samsung have added the ability to adjust the SDR to HDR conversion with three options – Low Gamma, Medium Gamma and High Gamma – depending on the actual brightness of your non-HDR display. Whilst the M9500 supports HDR10, it shouldn't come as a surprise to discover that it doesn't support Dolby Vision but then Samsung don't support this version of HDR on their TVs either. The player also supports regular Blu-ray, DVD, both of which can be upscaled to 4K, and CD (which can be ripped) but there's no support for 3D Blu-ray. This is sure to prove controversial but the reality is with no new TVs supporting the feature it was only a matter of time before 3D support was dropped from players as well. Sorry if I have some basic queries but like I say, it's been a long time since I looked at this stuff (early 2000's ?) & it's moved on by miles ! In the box there is a power supply and the remote and an easy-to-follow instruction guide. Less time to set up means more time to enjoy a great picture and sound that comes from this player. SAMSUNG UBD-M9000 Smart 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Player with 4K Ultra HD Upscaling Review: Quality – 93%READ NEXT: The BEST soundbars of 2017: Boost your TV audio Samsung UBD-M9500 review: Performance and image quality Similarly, you don’t need to select the ‘Bitstream (Unprocessed)’ audio setting to make the M9500 output Dolby Atmos or DTS:X – it analyses your audio system and selects the correct mode automatically. Samsung UBD-M9500 – Performance This thread aims at listing all current and coming HDR10+ blu-ray players and discuss and compare their respective implementation. One of my main criticisms of the UBD-K8500 was its lightweight build quality, which compared unfavourably with Panasonic’s more robust players. The UBD-M9500 is slightly improved, but the plastic casing still has the air of a budget player – at this price I’d expect something a little more luxurious. The UBD-M9500 also renders regular Blu-ray discs with a sure hand, making the detailed landscapes in The Martian look remarkably sharp and focused. Here I could see a slight improvement over last year’s model – the M9500’s images looked slightly sharper and more composed. It also streams hi-definition video content like a champ, offering crisp, solid pictures with no buffering problems over Wi-Fi.

The UBD-M9500 serves up sumptuous UHD Blu-ray pictures. Life of Pi explodes from the screen with masses of fine detail and truly life-like colours. Excellent contrast keeps the image rich and punchy as the camera drinks in the epic Indian landscapes. You might rightly wonder why Samsung bothers with apps at all, since all 4K TVs come with their own built-in streaming apps. However, although most modern 4K TVs support the full range of 4K services, some early 4K tellies may not have, and f you’re a 4K projector owner, having apps built into your player is essential since projectors rarely have built-in streaming apps. Audio-wise, the digital-only output means sound quality is determined by the quality of your system, but streaming Bluetooth through the player from a Samsung Galaxy phone proved a novel and convenient feature. A Now Playing screen appears when the music plays, showing the relevant metadata and an animated EQ meter. READ NEXT: Best 4K Blu-ray player: The best Ultra HD Blu-ray players you can buy in 2017 Samsung UBD-M9500 review: What you need to knowThe overall performance of the Samsung UBD-M9500 is fantastic. Much like the Oppo UDP-203, I found the player responsive and speedy to load discs; it’s better in this regard than the Xbox One S. It isn’t noisy either: even at quiet volumes I couldn’t hear the disc spinning, and there’s no fan noise at all. It’s much less distracting than the Xbox One S.

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The Samsung UBDM9000 4K UHD Blu-ray player delivers incredible true-to-life 4K resolution images – at a fraction of the cost I would have expected to pay for the quality. I’ve been using a Blu-ray player since they first came out and was, initially, sceptical about how much better 4K & UHD would make the picture. Any scepticism was soon gone, however, once I’d set up, settled down and pressed the play button! See the most realistic range of stunning shades burst from the screen without compromising on the detail, breathing new life into every scene. The UBD-M9000 offers twice the colour range and 64x greater detail colour expression than conventional Blu-ray players, surpassing the current Digital Cinema Standard. Enjoy realistic picture quality like never before. This 4k player is compatible with 4K UHD movies, Blu-rays and DVDs which is great if you have a collection of films you enjoy watching and you don’t want to part with them. The Samsung UBD-M9000 Blu-ray player will also upscale any non-4K content, making your old collection look better than it ever has before. It offers twice the colour range of existing conventional Blu-ray players and 64 times higher colour expressions, surpassing the digital cinema standard. You’ll enjoy realistic picture quality like never before as this 4K player gives you the Hollywood experience you’ve always wanted to have.

If you leave the M9500 in its default settings it will automatically set its output to match the native resolution of your display. So if your TV has a native resolution of 4K, the player will upscale all lower resolution content to match that resolution. We tested the upscaling of the M9500 with high definition content (both disc and steaming) as well as standard definition content from DVD and the player proved to be a very capable performer. Samsung's scaling has always been excellent and the M9500 handled high definition content extremely well, delivering images that were detailed and free of unwanted artefacts, whilst it also upscaled DVDs very effectively. The most welcome cosmetic difference between this and the K8500 is the addition of an OLED display, placed on the sloping front edge. It’s a little too small to read from the sofa, but the helpful status messages remove the guesswork involved when using the K8500.If it helps ... the TV under consideration is the Samsung QE55Q7F, and the soundbar under consideration is the Samsung HWMS650. I compared the M9500’s pictures to those of the K8500 and there doesn’t appear to be a major step-up in image quality with UHD discs. Thankfully, there are enough feature upgrades elsewhere to justify the higher price. Whilst its debatable that someone investing in an Ultra HD 4K Blu-ray player will be watching many DVDs, the good news is that the M9500 had no problems playing both PAL and NTSC DVDs. The player had very effective deinterlacing and cadence detection, with the interlaced signals being handle well regardless of whether it was film or video based or even a mixture of the two. The motion produced from the test DVDs we used was also very good and free of unwanted judder or other issues. As mentioned in the section on 4K upscaling, the player was also able to take this deinterlaced standard definition signal and upscale it with genuine skill, delivering images that were free of unwanted artefacts and surprisingly watchable when you consider the resolution of the source. This 4k player is compatible with 4K UHD movies, Blu-rays and DVDs which is great if you have a collection of films you enjoy watching and you don’t want to part with them. The Samsung UBD-M9000 Blu-ray player will also upscale any non-4K content, making your old collection look better than it ever has before. It works with UHD discs and even transmits smart content and overlaid menus. I managed to get it working with a Samsung Galaxy S6. It froze a couple of times, but it’s a nifty little feature.