Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #47227 in Home Theater
- Color: Black
- Brand: Samsung
- Model: HT-C6500
- Released on: 2010-02-22
- Dimensions: 16.93" h x
13.03" w x
2.36" l,
8.38 pounds
Features
- 2 HDMI inputs
- Built-in Wi-Fi
- 1GB Embedded Memory
- Upgraded Speakers
- Crystal Amp Pro
Samsung HT-C6500 Blu-ray Home Theater System
Product Description
Be surrounded by superior sound with the Samsung HT-C6500 Blu-ray home theater system.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
34 of 34 people found the following review helpful.
HTiB Please. Extra Features, Hold The Cheese
By Chris Boylan
Some HTiB (home theater in a box) systems are inflexible, hard to use and offer questionable performance with cheap, flimsy construction. One might even call them "cheesy." The Samsung HT-C6500 Blu-ray/DVD Home Theater System is not one of these systems. It offers solid audio and video performance, a wealth of online streaming features, including Netflix, Pandora and VUDU, built in Blu-ray, CD and DVD playback with pretty nice upconversion, WiFi networking and ample power to drive the 5.1 channel speaker system in a decent-sized room, and all for a reasonable price. Also, unlike many HTiB systems, the unit features two HDMI inputs, so you can add on a cable or satellite set-top box and/or a gaming system with single wire audio/video simplicity.The system includes on-board decoding of the latest surround sound codecs, including DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD so it can take full advantage of the sonic capabilities of Blu-ray Disc. It also features snappy load times, loading a DVD in about 9 seconds, a simple Blu-ray disc in 11 seconds and a BD-Java Blu-ray Disc (the first "Pirates of the Caribbean" film) in about 25 seconds. These times compete with the fastest standalone players currently on the market. The initial boot up is a little slow at 22 seconds, but the player is doing a lot of stuff at start-up, including searching DLNA devices for compatible networked media files, as well as loading the code for streaming providers such as Netflix, VUDU and Samsung's own Internet@TV service.During the review we did notice one disc compatibility issue (the unit can't get past the trailers on "The Incredible Hulk" Blu-ray Disc), but this can be worked around by disabling the BD-Live feature on the player (not ideal, but hopefully Samsung will fix this in a future firmware upgrade). Also, while the audio portion of the iPod dock worked flawlessly for us, if you want to also play video or photos on your iPod or iPhone through the system, you will need to connect an additional composite video cable between the HT-C6500 and your TV or projector (a basic video cable comes in the box). And don't look for anything fancy like album art in the iPod interface, because it just isn't there. However, controlling iPod song access from the unit's remote was very handy.Speaking of the remote, this is probably the weakest link here. The navigational buttons are a little too low and transport buttons are a little too high to comfortably navigate through set-up and disc menus or to easily control playback. We were happy to see an auto-calibration system on-board (with included microphone) which can get the basics of speaker level and distance calibration accomplished without having to revert to test discs and SPL meters.Performance tip for owners: if you feel that the bass lacks some definition or sounds a little "thumpy," try inserting a piece of foam or cloth (or some old socks) into the subwoofer port. This will actually tame the boom without losing a significant amount of sonic heft from the mix.Overall, we were impressed with the HT-C6500 and would recommend it to anyone in the market for a mid-range HTiB system. It's long on features and performance but relatively short on price: a good combination.You can read our complete review at Big Picture Big Sound (dot com).
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful.Good System, Good Extras, Okay Interface
By C. Sieg
First of all, the main capabilities of this HTiB are great. Excellent sound quality and Blu-ray capability.I'm no audiophile, but I think the sound quality is superb. It's something else when you have to turn around to see if a noise behind you is real. It booms when it needs to and is accurate and quiet when required. I also like how it will utilize different speakers depending on what you're doing. Playing a war game with explosions and gunfire going off all around you? The surround speakers are cranked up to put you in the middle of the action. Watching House? Most of the dialog is going through the center speaker for a more casual viewing experience. Listening to music? The front left and right speakers are working hardest to fill the room. I don't select any of this manually, it just seems to know what would be best.The Blu-ray capability seems good. The first one I tried to play was Avatar, and the player needed to update. I thought this was strange as I've only had DVDs before and have never needed an internet connection let alone an update. But, it was a fairly painless five minutes while I made popcorn. The movie looked and sounded great as expected.The main extras like Pandora and Netflix streaming are good. For some reason, Netflix seems to look better on this than my Xbox 360. I have a relatively slow internet connection so I'm impressed with the quality. I don't care for the cheesy web applications that have little use on your TV.The interface is a weak spot. It slow and sometimes painful. They tried to set it up the interface like it's a primary entertainment device but it runs like a strictly DVD/Blu-ray player with extra features. If you have a DVD/Blu-ray in the drive it's constantly trying to load it. You may want to watch some Netflix or play some music but this HTiB ALWAYS wants to play the movie. I really wish there was a way to disable this "feature".I also bought a Samsung plasma TV and this HTiB connects automatically to it through the Anynet+ feature. This is great while using my TV's other inputs. It automatically changes settings for optimal use of the HTiB. But, it's often very wonky when trying to change the TV's input to the HTiB. It has trouble recognizing video settings and I end up having to mess around for a few minutes to get it to work correctly.You may ask why I don't have everything running through the HTiB to the TV, since it does have two HDMI inputs. Well, this unit has a component OUT but not in. I didn't notice that when I purchased so I would have to run the component cables from the Wii to the TV and everything else to the HTiB, this would no doubt utterly confuse the girlfriend and I would be forever running the TV for her.Overall it's a great system that they just need to spend some time updating the software for. If they could fix the interface problems, add an option to turn off the drive auto-start, and add internet connection sharing, this HTiB would be superb.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Can't go wrong with this
By Wolf68k
This is only the second HTIB I've dealt with and both are Samsungs and blu-ray. The first is my dad's that he got about 1-2 years ago, still works great but lacks ...well everything this has, it's just a blu-ray player and speakers nothing special. This on the other hand has a ton of features all a great but to me could use some work too.So far this has played everything I've throw at it be it DVDs and Blu-rays as well as streaming media from my computer and iPhone 3GS and over the internet.So far I've only giving it a few things from a USB drive and nothing from a data disc CD or DVD. No problems with Blu-rays at all they load up much faster that my dad's player.Streaming from the computer is great but is kinda of flawed for my taste. You have to go to Samsung's website and download their software called PC Share Manager which strangely it's on the Support downloads for this but it is for their TVs, which I also do have, but it all works the same.Now this part is mostly about the program. I get that it has to be running for their product to see it but you have to add files to a folder and then hit a button on the program to refresh the files it sees. It would be nicer if you can just run the program, tell it where to look, then drop the files in there and be done with it. If you remove files the player (and their TVs for that matter) will still list them as being there until you go back to the program and refresh again.I haven't tried every single file format and codec there is, I've been meaning to and maybe I will same day, but I haven't had any problems with DviX/Xvid, MP4, and MPEG and since those are 3 of the 4 major ones then do the others really matter. I did have a few issues with some WMVs, while most played fine I had a few that didn't which I suspect might be because they were WMV-HD. I'm not much into MKV files so I didn't try them. MP3s and JPGs where flawless, better still is the fact that you can select a set of music files and then select a set of image files and start a slide show and the music will play in the background. I've had 2 DVD players that wouldn't do that and I really wish they had.With my iPhone 3GS it would only play the music files is a big of a bummer but it did play the mix of AACs and MP3s just fine. But here I would have liked it to view my images as well. It will play movies which is nice, only too pad I don't have any other than the ones I take when the camera which I can't get access to since they are stored in the Camera Roll making them grouped with the rest of the photos.I love that it's linked with my Samsung LN40C550 LCD HDTV as well. When I turn the player on that in turns automatically turns the TV on and sets the TV to player's input. This only works if you're connect via HDMI. Also when I turn off the TV it will also turn off the HTS. I'm sure some of this will work to a point with other TVs that support HDMI-CEC. Word to note, when you connect an iPod/iPhone and try to view movies the HTS will want to turn off HDMI-CEC which breaks that connection the TV and HTS have, so you'll have to go back and manually turn that back on in the HTS's settings. Now with it being 2 Samsung products that has what they call AnyNet+ which is just a fancy way of saying that that either remote can control both products without any need to configure the remotes like you have to with most universal remotes. Which leads me to another point to be careful of and something the manual doesn't tell you. There is a button on the HTS remote that says BD Receiver/TV if you look closely you'll notice that BD Receiver is in orange and TV is green. The first time you hit the button it'll light up either orange or green, hit it again to change to the other. I didn't notice the color change at first and was getting a bit ticked off every time I get the Menu button to want to get to the HTS menus but instead the TV's menus would come up. Yes I feel stupid about it now.Internet stuff. I don't have an account with Netflix, Vudu, or Blockbuster so I haven't been able to test those but they are there. There is also Pandora and Youtube which I do have and work great. One of the things I don't like is that on the main screen before you actually go into the InternetTV section is that there is a 4 or 5 recommended apps to pick from but there's no way to change those. I also don't understand the point of making an app as a favorite when you can't really use that in any useful way. There are a lot of other apps as well; weather, Picasa, Google Maps, and lots of games but the games are pretty lame and there's no sound, unless I'm doing something seriously wrong. I keep waiting for more apps to get added but I haven't seen anything yet only an update for a few of the apps that are already there. I saw at Samsung's website where they say they added an app for Amazon movie streaming but it must only before the Samsung TVs with InternetTV. I'm looking for a lot of other sites to get their own apps added to Samsung's apps list and hope they comes to the HTS and not just the TVs.Sound quality is great and made better with the mic that's included to tune the levels for the best sound. Honestly I have no idea how much if any it made to use that since I'm not really an audiophile but it seems better. Nice deep bass from the sub and good highs and midrange from the satellite speakers. Nice long wires as well. I wasn't too surprised to see that all of the wires has special connection at one end that connects to the back of the HTS. Great that they were colored coded and that each speaker had a label of the matching color so you know which wire went with which speaker and of course where they connected to the HTS. A lot of people will look down on these connectors because that means they can't use whatever speaker they want and if they are too short for their needs they have to tie on to the end of the included wire, but these people are the kind that shouldn't be buying a HTIB but instead a separate HT receiver and speakers or at least one that doesn't include a DVD or Blu-ray player (which Samsung does have that is the exact same model as this minus the player). This is more for people that aren't worried about getting it perfect and just want something that will get the job done which this does and so much more.I don't see many people mentioning the touch controls on the unit itself. I really like these controls although I've had a few times where I was cleaning the top or put my hand down on the top to look at something and swiped the power button on accident even just lightly and having the player power on or off was a bit annoying but not a deal breaker. I do question the reasoning behind the way the volume buttons on the unit are done. There is a bulge on the first that has a plus and minus on it. I don't have a problem with them being there, it's the fact they are on a bulge that interrupts the clean smooth face of the unit that kinda bugs me. Again it's a not a deal breaker.Now I debated for a long time which Samsung HTS to get. It was between this one and the 5500. I went with this because the Wifi was built in where as with the 5500 it's an $80 extra. This also has 1GB of internal memory which is use for BDLive content which for the 5500 you have to supply your own USB thumbstick. This also has 2 HDMI input ports which the 5500 doesn't have any. Now in my case if this had 2 or 3 optical inputs then it would be even better.So if you're trying to figure out which one to get between the 5500 and the 6500 and can afford both, get the 6500. No I'm not using the Wifi but it's nice to have it if I ever do need it. I'm a computer geek so I have a few USB thumbsticks I can dedicate to being used as a BDLive storage but having it internal is so much nicer. And currently I'm not using the 2 HDMI but again it's nice to have them if/when I ever do.
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