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This thread aims at listing all current and coming HDR10+ blu-ray players and discuss and compare their respective implementation. The UBD-M9500 also renders regular Blu-ray discs with a sure hand, making the detailed landscapes in The Martian look remarkably sharp and focused. Here I could see a slight improvement over last year’s model – the M9500’s images looked slightly sharper and more composed. It also streams hi-definition video content like a champ, offering crisp, solid pictures with no buffering problems over Wi-Fi. The M9500 also lets you watch content taken on Gear 360 or YouTube 360 videos and control them with the player’s remote. You need to convert Gear 360 content on a Galaxy smartphone or PC first, and watch them via the USB port. The overall performance of the Samsung UBD-M9500 is fantastic. Much like the Oppo UDP-203, I found the player responsive and speedy to load discs; it’s better in this regard than the Xbox One S. It isn’t noisy either: even at quiet volumes I couldn’t hear the disc spinning, and there’s no fan noise at all. It’s much less distracting than the Xbox One S. This 4k player is compatible with 4K UHD movies, Blu-rays and DVDs which is great if you have a collection of films you enjoy watching and you don’t want to part with them. The Samsung UBD-M9000 Blu-ray player will also upscale any non-4K content, making your old collection look better than it ever has before.
There's no doubt that the M9500 is a very capable 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray player that can be setup with the minimum of fuss. If you simply leave it in its default auto settings it will optimise its output to suit your display and deliver a flawless performance with UHD Blu-ray discs. If your display can't support HDR (High Dynamic Range) then the player will very effectively convert the image to SDR (Standard Dynamic Range) and you now have three different options depending on the brightness of your display. The M9500 also plays Blu-rays superbly, scaling the images with precision, whilst the deinterlacing and scaling of DVDs was equally as effective. The Samsung is also an excellent source of streaming video content, with the player automatically outputting the correct frame rate. The audio performance was just as good and the M9500 supports both Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio, which means you can also enjoy immersive audio formats like Dolby Atmos, DTS:X and Auro-3D.The UBD-M9500 serves up sumptuous UHD Blu-ray pictures. Life of Pi explodes from the screen with masses of fine detail and truly life-like colours. Excellent contrast keeps the image rich and punchy as the camera drinks in the epic Indian landscapes. It’s fast, stylish and intuitive. I love the way you can access the Home menu as the movie plays and most apps fire up from the Home menu in less than a second – doing so on the K8500 restarted the disc. The Samsung UBDM9000 4k player comes full of great smart apps built-in (Netflix, YouTube, catch up TV and many more besides) so there is no need for endlessly changing between TV and 4k player to get to your smart apps. All the apps are there in one place, accessible through the Tizen operating system, which displays them as tiles at the bottom of the screen. Thank you for taking the time to read our SAMSUNG UBD-M9000 Smart 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Player with 4K Ultra HD Upscaling review from the Blu-Ray Players category. If there’s any products that we have not yet reviewed please leave us a comment and we will do our best to get a review added. About Currys Samsung has wisely switched to the Eden user interface (powered by the Tizen OS) introduced on its 2016 Smart TVs. As a result, the UBD-M9500 is a dream to use, offering greater flexibility and better-looking menus than the UBD-K8500.
Similarly, you don’t need to select the ‘Bitstream (Unprocessed)’ audio setting to make the M9500 output Dolby Atmos or DTS:X – it analyses your audio system and selects the correct mode automatically. Samsung UBD-M9500 – Performance In terms of actual features the main one is clearly support for 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, with its increased resolution, 10-bit video, wider colour gamut, high dynamic range (specifically HDR 10) and HEVC decoding. The M9500 will optimise Ultra HD content to the native capabilities of your display and also down convert HDR automatically if your TV doesn't support that feature. This year Samsung have added the ability to adjust the SDR to HDR conversion with three options – Low Gamma, Medium Gamma and High Gamma – depending on the actual brightness of your non-HDR display. Whilst the M9500 supports HDR10, it shouldn't come as a surprise to discover that it doesn't support Dolby Vision but then Samsung don't support this version of HDR on their TVs either. The player also supports regular Blu-ray, DVD, both of which can be upscaled to 4K, and CD (which can be ripped) but there's no support for 3D Blu-ray. This is sure to prove controversial but the reality is with no new TVs supporting the feature it was only a matter of time before 3D support was dropped from players as well.I compared the M9500’s pictures to those of the K8500 and there doesn’t appear to be a major step-up in image quality with UHD discs. Thankfully, there are enough feature upgrades elsewhere to justify the higher price. The Samsung UBDM9000 4K UHD Blu-ray player delivers incredible true-to-life 4K resolution images – at a fraction of the cost I would have expected to pay for the quality. I’ve been using a Blu-ray player since they first came out and was, initially, sceptical about how much better 4K & UHD would make the picture. Any scepticism was soon gone, however, once I’d set up, settled down and pressed the play button! Audio-wise, the digital-only output means sound quality is determined by the quality of your system, but streaming Bluetooth through the player from a Samsung Galaxy phone proved a novel and convenient feature. A Now Playing screen appears when the music plays, showing the relevant metadata and an animated EQ meter. It works with UHD discs and even transmits smart content and overlaid menus. I managed to get it working with a Samsung Galaxy S6. It froze a couple of times, but it’s a nifty little feature.
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