Samsung 4K UHD Blu-ray Player UBD-K8500

[AuburnM5]

Do most use auto or do you like to tinker? Also, is it worth upgrading this player if it's for a 2nd system for a living room?

[RockyIII]

Originally Posted by Conans Rage

You must have alot of 4k BDs.

Heh, I don't plan on buying them that often, at least not at full price.

I watch a good number of both UHD and HD titles, and I would have to constantly access and change picture settings if I wanted to teh TV to do upscaling...That is not practical to be honest. I'd gfive up 0.1% upscaling quality if that means that I can just pop in any disc and just press Play

[RockyIII]

Originally Posted by AuburnM5

Do most use auto or do you like to tinker? Also, is it worth upgrading this player if it's for a 2nd system for a living room?

Auto

[RockyIII]

Any of you guys have experience in using UHD discs on this player while connected to a non-UHD TV or projector?

[dvdwatcher]

Originally Posted by RockyIII

Any of you guys have experience in using UHD discs on this player while connected to a non-UHD TV or projector?

I do works just fine

[hasslein]

Originally Posted by JimShaw

Need your input

I purchase the UBD-K8500 a few months ago. Don't use it that much.

Something happened tonight I have never seen with a player.

I just finished watching a Bly-ray. Everything worked perfectly. I placed another disc in to play and this popped up

Cannot Play This Disc. Ensure The Playback Is Not Damaged and Wipe the Disc With a Soft Cloth

I pulled the disc out. Nothing wrong with it. I placed a new disc in and the same thing happened. Wouldn't play.

I placed a 4K disc in that I played last night. The same thing. Wouldn't play.

I shut the system down. Turned everything back on and one of the discs that the player would not play, is now playing.

Has this happened to you with your Samsung 4k player?

Possibly just a fluke?


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I get that message every time I fast forward thru more than 10 minutes of a movie. Have to eject and start over.

Also an update on my Magnificent Seven (1960) BD issue (disc played in all players but this one, I'd get a disc doesn't meet specifications message and player would spit it out.) I picked up another copy from different retailer and it plays fine. Player must have picked up on a flaw the others didn't..

Can't get Crank 2 to play, even w flash drive inserted.

[eddievanhalen]

I wanted to watch The Forced Awakens yesterday on my Philips non-HDR 40'' 4K set. I play most of my Blu rays on the Samsung player (region 2/B) these days leaving my region 1/A Oppo BDP-93 only for playing SACD's and some region A locked BD's I own. I checked how the Oppo 93 played The Force Awakens on 3D and I liked it much more than the Samsung. Why can be that?

[eddievanhalen]

There's also something I've been trying to find out, asked many times but never got an answer. I have a non-HDR Philips T.V. set with a 10 bit panel and the Samsung UBD-K8500 player linked to it. What video bit depth is the Samsung player outputs to the T.V. set (Deep Color is set to OFF)? 8 or 10 bits? If I switch Deep Color to Auto, is it true that the Samsung player outputs 12 bit video? Or as this set says ''Auto'' it detects via HDMI handshake the native video bit depth of the T.V. set? Does this allow even if my T.V. is not HDR capable to benefit of Wide Color Gamut?
Thanks in advance.

[FilmFreakosaurus]

Originally Posted by eddievanhalen

There's also something I've been trying to find out, asked many times but never got an answer. I have a non-HDR Philips T.V. set with a 10 bit panel and the Samsung UBD-K8500 player linked to it. What video bit depth is the Samsung player outputs to the T.V. set (Deep Color is set to OFF)? 8 or 10 bits? If I switch Deep Color to Auto, is it true that the Samsung player outputs 12 bit video? Or as this set says ''Auto'' it detects via HDMI handshake the native video bit depth of the T.V. set? Does this allow even if my T.V. is not HDR capable to benefit of Wide Color Gamut?
Thanks in advance.

You're getting 10 bits from the player with Deep Color off. As has been mentioned multiple times, Deep Color, as implemented by this player, screws up the native video of UHD discs and should be disabled.

[j_Diz]

Is anyone aware of a method to change what apps show up in 'my apps' section on the main screen (bottom left)? I would really love to have Amazon show up as one of the three quick select options but couldn't figure it out for the life of me.

[danny24]

Originally Posted by eddievanhalen

I wanted to watch The Forced Awakens yesterday on my Philips non-HDR 40'' 4K set. I play most of my Blu rays on the Samsung player (region 2/B) these days leaving my region 1/A Oppo BDP-93 only for playing SACD's and some region A locked BD's I own. I checked how the Oppo 93 played The Force Awakens on 3D and I liked it much more than the Samsung. Why can be that?

The K8500 is the better player, but the Oppo 93 has a Qdeo processor for video, pretty sure it will still hold up well vs the K8500 except when it upscales to 4k or plays 4k.

[datlocolatino]

Originally Posted by RockyIII

Any of you guys have experience in using UHD discs on this player while connected to a non-UHD TV or projector?

I do. The only problem Ive run into is with Netflix. It refuses to play the HD programming. The best answer I could find is that it has something to do with their encoding so if your monitor isnt 4k youll get sound and a blank screen.

[gates70]

Originally Posted by RockyIII

Any of you guys have experience in using UHD discs on this player while connected to a non-UHD TV or projector?

I thought you did since you kept arguing that it was too dark or that the PQ sucked playing it that way ?

[RockyIII]

Originally Posted by gates70

I thought you did since you kept arguing that it was too dark or that the PQ sucked playing it that way ?

Yes it is too dark, but it should not be. Unfortunately some titles have dolby atmos only in the UHD disc otherwise I would just be content playing the regular bluray disc

[gates70]

Originally Posted by RockyIII

Yes it is too dark, but it should not be. Unfortunately some titles have dolby atmos only in the UHD disc otherwise I would just be content playing the regular bluray disc

So why are you asking if you already know ? And this too dark thing is most likely because of your setup because this has never been reported by anyone else but you.

[RockyIII]

Originally Posted by gates70

So why are you asking if you already know ? And this too dark thing is most likely because of your setup because this has never been reported by anyone else but you.

I was hoping thatt some of you might know what it is causing that and how to solve the problem

[Patsfan123]

Originally Posted by RockyIII

I was hoping thatt some of you might know what it is causing that and how to solve the problem

It outputs 0-255 no matter the color setting. Change your black level from low to high on the tv

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[RockyIII]

Originally Posted by Patsfan123

It outputs 0-255 no matter the color setting. Change your black level from low to high on the tv

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I guess low/high black level is what on Sony is labeled as dynamic range limited/full?

[Patsfan123]

Originally Posted by RockyIII

I guess low/high black level is what on Sony is labeled as dynamic range limited/full?

Sounds likely, try full

[RockyIII]

Originally Posted by Patsfan123

Sounds likely, try full

I always keep it on Auto for bluray which actually defaults to Limited. I will try to manually select Full which generally results is grey blacks but in this case it might work given how dark the picture is