About This Product
Elevate your home entertainment viewing with the Samsung UBD-K8500 Ultra HD Blu-ray Player—designed to deliver the ultimate cinematic experience. Enjoy incredible picture quality, a wider color range and dramatic detail with a Blu-ray player capable of upscaling lower resolution media to a stunning ultra-high definition resolution. Plus, this Ultra HD Blu-ray Player features a sleek, curved design—matching seamlessly with your Samsung Curved SUHD TV.
True-to-life Images in Incredible Detail
With stunning UHD 4K resolution, Samsung’s Ultra HD Blu-ray Player gives you 4 times the picture quality of existing Samsung Blu-ray players. It also boasts incredibly life-like images with 4K UHD playback.
Incredible Cinema Quality at Home
With HDR technology, the Ultra HD Blu-ray Player puts the movie set in your living room, delivering dynamic UHD content in exceptional quality. Experience sharp contrasts and brightness with deeper blacks and brighter whites.
Enjoy More Vivid and Breathtaking Color
The Ultra HD Blu-ray Player offers twice the color range of existing conventional Blu-ray players and 64 times higher color expressions, surpassing the digital cinema standard. Enjoy realistic picture quality like never before.
Bring Your TV to Life with UHD Upscaling
Bring Your TV to Life with UHD Upscaling The Ultra HD Blu-ray Player lets you upscale all your content to near UHD, giving you crystal-clear images with 4X the resolution of Full HD. Now you can watch all your favorite movies as if you are in the middle of the scene.
Outstanding 4K Streaming Service
Stream the latest 4K movies to your living room on demand at high speeds*. Access a wide range of content from online providers such as Netflix and Amazon, as well as your favorite offline shows.
The Ultimate Universal Disc Player
The Ultra HD Blu-ray Player has outstanding compatibility, letting you play all the old music CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs that you have collected over the years. Now you can enjoy all your favorite movies in UHD quality.
Elegant and Modern Curved Design
The design now perfectly matches your Samsung SUHD TV. With a unique brushed design, Samsung’s Ultra HD Blu-ray Player gives your living room a modern finishing touch.
Ultra HD Premium
The UHDA's ULTRA HD PREMIUM logo identifies products and services that meet or exceed strict performance levels for resolution, high dynamic range and wide color spectrum, along with recommendations for immersive audio, among others.
Best Buy Top Tech 20
Samsung’s UHD Blu-ray player was named to Best Buy’s “Top Tech of 2016” list of the 20 must-have technology products of the year. The list contains the hottest new and emerging technologies handpicked by Best Buy’s tech experts, from virtual reality and smart home products to drones and hair dryers (yes, hair dryers).
General Specs
Product Weight (lbs.) | 4.19 |
Width (in.) | 15.98 |
Depth (in.) | 9.06 |
Height (in.) | 1.76 |
Disc Capacity | 1 |
Manufacturer Warranty | 1 Year Parts & Labor |
HDMI Outputs | 2 |
Screen Resolution | 4K |
Wifi Connectivity | Yes |
Smart Compatible | Yes |
Wifi Capable | Yes |
General
Color | Black |
Design Concept | Curved with Touch Control Buttons and Front LED Display |
Deck Type | Slide Out Disc Tray |
Features
2D & 3D Playback | Yes |
Anynet+ (HDMI-CEC) | Yes |
BD Wise | Yes |
CD Ripping | Yes |
Multiroom Compatible | Yes |
Apps Platform | Smart Blu-ray with Full Web Browser and Samsung Apps Smart Hub |
Audio Processing
Dolby Digital | 7.1 Channel |
Dolby True HD | Yes |
DTS-HD | Yes |
Video Features
HD Up-Scaling | Yes |
UHD Up-scale | Yes |
OSD Default Language | English |
AV Decoding Format
AVCHD 1.0 | Yes |
WMV | Yes |
JPEG | Yes |
MVK | Yes |
MPO | Yes |
MPEG-2 | Yes |
MPEG-4 | Yes |
TV System | NTSC |
Connectivity
Bluetooth® | Yes |
HDMI Out | 2 |
USB Connectivity | 1 |
Wi-Fi | Yes |
AllShare™ (DLNA) | Yes |
Built-in Wi-Fi | Yes |
Ethernet | Yes |
Screen Mirroring | Yes |
Optical Digital Audio Outputs | 1 |
Power Consumption
Stand-by Power Consumption (Main) | 0.3 |
Operating Power Consumption (Main) | 34 |
Supported Media
Ultra HD Blu-ray | Yes |
Blu-ray | Yes |
CD / CD-R / CD-RW | Yes |
DVD / DVD±R / DVD±RW | Yes |
3D Blu-ray | Yes |
4K Blu-ray | Yes |
Dimensions & Weight
Product Dimensions (W x H x D) | 15.98" x 1.76" x 9.06" |
Product Weight (lb.) | 4.19 lb. |
Shipping Dimensions (W x H x D) | 18.11" x 4.45" x 11.30" |
Shipping Weight (lb.) | 6.17 lb. |
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