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Happy-Mad-Love
After receiving this item, I was stoked to finally be able to retire my first generation LG Blu-ray player. I connected every thing just fine and this unit detected my WiFi signal without a problem. I updated the software easily in about 5mins. Then I decided to see how it would look visually with my recently purchased 4K 55inch Vizio TV. I inserted my Man of Steel Blu-ray disc, and holy cow, the picture quality was amazing playing the previews and the Man of Steel title screen. Then in came the the problem. It wouldn't let me play the actual movie, saying "This can not be done because of disc restriction". I was puzzled, so I tried a few other of my favorite movies like Dark Knight Rises and Terminator Salvation and the same thing occurred. At this point I am pissed and thinking that Samsung had beat me out of $150. I tried everything I could think of. I went online and found many complaints with people having this same issue. Turns out the movie industry has started applying region codes to their DVD and Blu-ray released to curtail piracy. From the unit's interface, I registered an account with Samsung and was getting ready to scream on them...Then I thought, how would Samsung know what region I'm in? I went to the time setting and saw that it was set on a European time zone. I changed to my USA time zone and wah lah it did the trick...It played all three just fine. Happy now I tell ya!
March 2016 · Electronics · verified purchase