Samsung BD-H8500M

63% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

The Samsung BD-H8500M cost around £250 when it launched back in 2014, but it's now available for well under £200, and it's now probably the UK's most popular Blu-Ray player and HDD recorder combo. Asked by Chris from UK on 27th Dec 2017 Is it possible...

It is amazing value for money considering all its features.

Its presentation of recorded programmes is clumsy and not user friendly. Some tasks require too many button clicks to complete, deleting a recorded programme for example.

Appearance is non-obtrusive, sets up quickly and easily

The display panel is very dim and difficult to read in daylight

It works. A Blu-ray player, a twin tuner HD PVR and plays a god range of video files through USB or streaming.

The user interface is a bit cumbersome but it works.

Easy setup, works well

Slightly noisy but not noticeable when viewing programmes

All great points nothing negative good all around

More comprehensive instruction book

It took some getting used too as it had no printed instructions .

The product did not work very well with our series 6 Samsung TV plus the instructions were a waste of time.

Records two things at once, while watching something recorded previously. So far, everything recorded has worked well. There are many feature that I have not explored yet.

If it starts itself to record (rather than beginning to record after being started by the user), it does not communicate with the television, so I can't watch at the same time. Sometimes gives slow response times to the remote controller. The only...