The Samsung BD-H6500 has a simple interface and provides quick access to disk, "your photos, videos, music," sponsored by Samsung Apps, the most frequently accessed by the user apps and the App Store. The AppStore is integrated directly in the system and thus are load times, just to display the user interface of the stores like the Philips BDP7750, avoided. The remote control is for this price range in order. After prolonged use can feel the keys unfavorably in the thumb (but is only in the testing and setting up the case).
The player is not advertised as the previous generation BD-F7500 with a Core Duo processor, but yielded exactly the same speed. Therefore, I assume that the same processor is installed. Despite Core Duo I have when I click through the menu is always a small but noticeable delay. You get used to it though, but is particularly useful when typing on the keyboard a major shortcoming. The Blu-Ray he reads it a very quick and is pleasantly quiet in the volume. Especially I must highlight the start. This BD player will start in 11 sec. (Cold start) !!!
A remote control that I can make all the necessary features for TV, AV receiver and BD player is my wishful thinking. Since I have a Samsung TV with HDMI-CEC recognition (is quite old) can I by I turn on the BD player, let the TV automatically miteinschalten and the HDMI channel will even automatically (properly) selected! After I had programmed the BD player remote control receiver, I can now operate the entire system with a remote control only. The only important feature is the back-and-coils and the Play and Pause button I'm missing here. This is only possible on the original supplied Samsung BD player remote control.
The player I wanted to use in addition to the playing discs mainly to stream from the network and he could about the Samsung internal system via DLNA, much more comfortable, it was the media client Plex or video station, the 1080p .mkv .mp4 and .avi could transcode. Wiggled it only at a very high bit rate (+ MKV DTS 5.1) Since I use a Synology NAS with an activated Plexserver is the comfortable view of movie library with title, cover, actor and Synopsis at all possible. Otherwise it would also move from the PC / Mac by the software easy to install. To me it was important to use the movies watching as little power and with a few watts for the BD player to get better fuel out as a complete state machine.
If you want to use the player as a web browser was warned that the box very slowly are the contents again. Connecting an external keyboard via USB was plug and play and worked immediately.
Conclusion:
The BD-H6500 is in this price range is my favorite because it is easy to understand to use and features / apps often used can be selected directly, without having to search in submenus. I connected via HDMI to my AV Receiver, which I can transmit surround sound to DTS-HD Master the Blu-Ray player.
