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Sunday, December 25, 2011

Samsung HT-BD8200 Blu-Ray Sound Bar Home Theater System (Black)

Blu-Ray Home Theater

Amazon Sales Rank: #35936 in Home Theater Color: Black Brand: Samsung Model: HT-BD8200XAA Dimensions: 7.68" h x 39.37" w x 1.85" l, 28.66 pounds Integrated Blu-ray 300W Output power HDMI out with CEC + 1080p iPod video, audio + iphone support Stream Blockbuster, Netflix, YouTube & Pandora

Expand your entertainment choices to a degree never before possible with Samsung’s HT-BD8200 Blu-ray Home Theater System. In addition to the hi-def pleasures of a Blu-ray Disc Player that also up-converts regular DVDs, it provides the personalized entertainment options of streaming Netflix and the music of Pandora. Enjoy stored music and media favorites using the iPod dock with video, audio and iPhone support. And the WiFi* ready and PC Connected/Streaming features let you wirelessly view pictures, listen to music and more from virtually any PC in the house directly to your Home Theater System. *Samsung WiFi dongle required Key Features 1-disc BD/DVD 2.1 Channel Home Theater Audio System With Virtual Surround 1080p Video Up-Scale Compatibility: DVD/DVD±R/DVD±RW, CD/CD±R/CD±RW, MP3/Jpeg viewer, DivX iPod Video, Audio + iPhone Support Bluetooth: Privately listen to TV with wireless Bluetooth enabled headset. WiFi Ready* (Samsung WiFi dongle required) Anynet Plus (HDMI-CEC): allows peripheral AV devices such as a Home Theater to be controlled by a Samsung TV remote control. Smart Volume Netflix + Pandora PC Connected/Streaming FM Tuner Energy Star Compliant: reduces energy consumption. USB Host Play: you don’t need to burn CDs or DVDs to enjoy music, video clips or photos on your home theater system—just plug a portable digital device into the USB port for instant entertainment. Power Bass Audio Upscaling 400W Output Power Wall Mount Bracket Included                           Terminals   Component video out: 1 Composite video out: 1 HDMI-CEC out: 1 Audio input: 1 Headphone jack Optical in: 1   Image Quality Beyond  Imagination Experience true 1080p high definition – the best picture you can get. Crystal-clear detail and cinematic resolution come home, at last. It’s the state of the high definition art. Your favorite movies are reborn in Blu-ray, when you discover what you've been missing. The HT-BD8200 can also up-convert DVDs to near high definition quality so even your old movies get a renewed lease on life. And we didn't neglect your ears—high definition extends to the audio spectrum courtesy of Dolby True HD Technology.

Most helpful customer reviews 66 of 68 people found the following review helpful. I Really Really Wanted to like it! By J. Sundquist When my 10 year old projection TV finally died recently, it was finally a good enough reason to buy a flat panel TV. I ended up buying the Samsung UN55B6000 55" LED. Of course once I got it home it confirmed to me what I knew would be the case, the sound on flat panels isn't great. It's just hard to make speakers small enough for a flat panel that are big enough to be good. So after all of my hunting, I found the HT-BD8200. I thought it would be perfect. I could get rid of the stack of stereo and AV components and replace them with this. In theory it can replace the Radio tuner, CD player, DVD player, Blu Ray player and receiver. I received it, hooked it up and started admiring it (I discovered rather rudely that Samsung does not put an HDMI cable in the $800 box so had to go buy one). The wireless subwoofer is awesome and I was able to hide it out of view behind the couch. The unit itself looks like it was made for my TV. It's the same glossy black glass look with the red touch of color. I had visions of wall mounting my TV with the HT-BD8200 wall mounted right under it (it comes with a wall mount kit). The controls on the unit are super cool touch controls. No buttons, just symbols on the top of the disc drive area that light up. Just touch the glass over the control and a small beep lets you know it's activated. It comes with a wifi adapter so that you can stream netflix, pandora, blockbuster etc. to it over your wifi network at home. I could babble on forever about the cool things it does which is why it breaks my heart to have to list the bad things and ultimately why I had to return it. Once I got over the thrill of having a new toy, I started to notice buggy behavior that makes me think Samsung rushed this out or cobbled it together without enough QA testing. - "MODE NOT SUPPORTED" Since I connected the unit to my TV with HDMI, it activated the Samsung "Anynet" feature which basically let's the TV and soundbar talk to each other and activate Samsung specific features. For example, when you put a disc in the soundbar, it'll automatically change the TV to the correct input and start playing the disc so that you don't have to go through the "source" menu on the TV. What I found was that from time to time I'd put a disc in the soundbar, it'd change the source on the TV but then the TV would just display "Mode Not Supported". Nothing in the manual said anything about this error and a google search came up with a million unrelated postings about the error on various Samsung products. I was able to get around it by switching the HDMI cable to another port on the TV. When the error would come up again, I'd switch it back to the original port and it would work again. Pretty crappy for an $800 product. - "Misbehaving Night Light" Like my TV, the soundbar has a small accent light at the bottom of the center of the unit. You can set it to be on while the unit is on, off, or all the time. I set to to be on when the unit is on. When I went to bed I turned the unit off and the light went off. The next day when I came home from work the light was on and the unit was off. I checked the setting in the menus and it was still set to be off when the unit was off... but it was on. Annoying - "Ghost in the machine" The soundbar started to turn itself on by itself. The first time it happened I thought maybe I had left it on without realizing it. So I made it a point to verify it was off when I went out the next day and sure enough it was back on when I came back that night. I had to start leaving it set to an unused input before turning it off to make sure it wouldn't come on blasting the radio mid day or mid night. - "Low Volume on TV" The volume when watching movies or listening to CD's can reasonably loud. Don't get me wrong, you cannot ever go deaf listening to this unit on max volume because it just

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