Gadgetlite 360: Samsung BD-C8200 Blu-ray Player

The Samsung 8200 elevates your whole television experience with greater choice and even better visuals. The wide spectrum of media sharing and internet access along with ample data storage ensure that there are very few limits to what fun can be had. Enjoy the freedom.

Infinite online entertainment with Internet@TV.

Samsung’s Internet@TV feature sets new standards for connected Blu-ray players. The new Internet@TV platform provides viewers with a gateway to a multitude of entertainment ranging from Video, Music, News and Social Networking. Internet@TV offers a diverse range of online content, simply content you devise to the internet via ethernet cable or wirelessly via Samsung wireless LAN adaptor to access great online services such as Lovefilm movie streaming, BBC iPlayer, Muzu. TV music and many others.

Connecting is easy with All Share.

Now you can enjoy movies, music and photos from your PC and other mobile devices, right on your Samsung TV screen. With Samsung's Allshare (powered by DLNA) you can wirelessly sync your PC and Samsung mobile phone with your Blu-ray player, streaming content and even keeping tabs on who’s calling and texting you with real-time monitoring on your screen. Samsung’s All Share makes staying connected easy.

Experience the pinnacle of picture quality.

Blu-ray is the only way you can get full HD 1080p images on your new HD TV. Bring your TV to life with a Samsung Blu-ray player. Experience 5x the quality of standard DVD, the Full HD 1080p quality engulfs you with spectacular detail – rich, eye-popping colours and super-sharp, ultra-realistic images that enhance everything on your screen.

Expand your multimedia horizons.

Today’s ultimate home theatre needs to handle more than DVDs, video games and various multimedia formats. It also needs to function as the ultimate multimedia theatre. That’s why a Samsung system allows you to plug in a wide range of digital devices. So whether it’s in MP3, DivX, Divx HD, JPEG, JPEG HD, MKV, or AVCHD file formats, you’re able to enjoy your favourite files from the comfort of your couch.

Keep in touch with your system.

Samsung’s unique Touch Sensor controls allow you to easily control your home theater system with the tips of your fingers. Each touch and tap delivers an emotional response which makes navigating your system’s features and intuitive and efficient experience.

Integrated Terrestrial-HD tuner

Invite a whole new world of enhanced entertainment into your home with DVB-T2 Broadcasting. Access new free-to-air HD channels with no monthly subscription. This ultra-convenient digital tuner brings the very best channels that you can watch, pause and even record onto the spacious Hard Disk Drive

Stop waiting with Ultra Fast Play.

At Samsung, we believe there’s always room for improvement. We applied this philosophy to reduce the time it takes for a movie to actually start after inserting a disc into a Blu-ray or DVD player. Our Blu-ray players were engineered with Ultra Fast Play to eliminate those annoying load times. It gets you into the entertainment right away. So sitting down to watch your favourite movie no longer entails the drama of slow device booting and clumsy tray openings.

Fewer distractions. Fuller screen.

To maximize your viewing experience, to truly feel the power of the on-screen portrayals, you need all the picture you can get. With the Screen Fit feature, Samsung Blu-ray disc player’s automatically converts 21:9 aspect ratio movies to 16:9 aspect, eliminating those annoying black bands crowding the scenes. Watch movies the way they were meant to be seen-with just one touch of the screen fit button.

Built-in Wireless Connectivity

Wireless access to the infinite possibilities of next generation entertainment is as easy thanks to the BD-C8200's built-in wifi. Internet@TV and Allshare content can be accessed without wires, so you don't need position you player in the reach of an ethernet wire to enjoy the additional multimedia features on your Samsung Blu-ray player.

Score a goal with 250GB of recording space.

Now you don’t have to worry about having enough recording space. Samsung BD-C8200 has an amazing 250GB of hard disk space with 67 hours of HD recording time. That gives you plenty of time to record the entire 2010 world football tournament - in HD. And even with 64 matches, you’ll still have eight hours left to record your favourite television programs and movies.