Customer Reviews for Samsung HT-EM54C 3D Wifi Blu-ray™ Home Theater System HT-EM54C

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Samsung HT-EM54C 3D Wifi Blu-ray™ Home Theater System HT-EM54C

This item may currently be in stock at your local Costco Warehouse for immediate purchase at the same price.                Everything you love about movies and the web, in one home theater. With the Samsung HT-EM54C, the 3D cinemas come to life in stunning Blu-ray™ picture quality. Samsung’s Smart Blu-ray™ technology with AllShare™ Play makes it possible to share and connect with friends, explore the web and so much more – all through your HTiB. The built-in WiFi feature delivers a solid wireless connection for streaming and browsing. Sit down to watch your favorite 3D films or shows, and Samsung’s Active 3D brings truly immersive cinematic thrills to your living room, with a depth and clarity that’s nothing short of stunning. And the Disc to Digital feature allows you to unlock a digital copy of your favorite DVDs for streaming on your other connected devices. Smart Hub: Samsung Smart Blu-ray™ Home Theater System has retooled its Smart Hub feature to further expand its access to a world of online entertainment. Smart Hub also allows you to search through hundreds of apps for a seamless user experience. Smart Content: With the introduction of new Smart features, you can now enjoy a more fun and entertaining experience at home. The Smart Home Theater System offers an entire suite of easy-to-use and innovative features that entertain your family while instilling a healthy lifestyle. The features are designed to make learning fun again or to enjoy precious family moments by sharing photos and videos. Signature Services Family Story: Share your most precious family moments with Family Story on your new Samsung Smart Blu-ray™ Home Theater System. Family Story provides a quick way to upload photos to a gallery, even from your mobile device. You can also chat in real time, post messages and share important family events so everyone is kept up to date. Signature Services Fitness: Now you can maintain a healthy lifestyle with Samsung Smart Fitness. Exercise at home through the video on- demand service and manage your workout history. You can also track your progress by downloading the Exercise App onto your mobile device. Signature Services Kids Story: Combine home entertainment and education. Through this feature, we can recommend a variety of children friendly programming so you can watch your child enjoy the pleasure of learning. The fun and exciting games will entertain your child and family for hours. Web Browser: Easily stream your favorite movies and TV shows, download apps, shop online, browse the web, update your status on Facebook® and Twitter,™ and enjoy all of the benefits of full web browsing right on the big screen. Disc to Digital Streaming Service: Unlock a digital copy of your DVD collection and access your movies on multiple connected devices. WiFi built-in: With a wireless LAN built-in, it is easier than ever to browse the web right on the big screen. AllShare™ Play: Enables your Blu-ray™ Home Theater System to wirelessly access and then stream content from any compatible device, like a PC. That means you can share movies, photos and music all through a single device — and watch on your TV. Now with the benefits of cloud technology, you can access and even share content when you’re away from home. Crystal Amp Plus: Samsung’s proprietary digitalm amplifier technology, Crystal Amplifier Plus, delivers HD quality sound to your 3D experience. This innovative technology was designed to filter sound sources twice to minimise distortion and produce crystal-clear sound. Now everything you hear sounds exactly the way it was meant to be heard. 3D Sound Plus: Prepare yourself for the world’s first “total 3D” experience with the addition of 3D sound to your 3D viewing environment. 3D Sound Plus, Samsung’s unique sound processing technology, combines its latest advancements in sound, 3D depth Sound, Vertical Surround and Horizontal Surround, to deliver a more realistic 3D experience for a truly heart-pounding, immersive adventure. Features: 5.1 channel, 1000 watts   2nd generation open-type speakers with Phase Plug   Smart Hub    Web Browser   Disc to Digital   WiFi built-in   AllShare™ Play   Wireless rear ready   3D Blu-ray™ Player   iPod® dock   User EQ   Crystal Amp Plus   3D Sound Plus   Playable Disc Type: BD, DVD, DVD±R, DVD±RW, CD-DA, CD-R, CD-RW   Video Format: MPEG-2/4, Xvid, MKV, HD JPEG, WMV (1/2/3/7/9), AVCHD   Audio Format: MP3, AC3, LPCM, WMA, AAC, Dolby® Digital, Dolby® Digital Plus, Dolby® Pro Logic II, Dolby® TrueHD, DTS,™ DTS™ 96/24, DTS-HD™   Includes HDMI® cable   Dimensions: 16.9" W x 13.2" H x 16.4" D; Weight: 29.5 lbs. Smart Content with Signature Services:    Family Story   Fitness   Kids Story Connections: 2 HDMI® inputs   1 audio input   1 optical input Model: HT-EM54C
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148 of 170(87%)customers would recommend this product to a friend.
Customer Reviews for Samsung HT-EM54C 3D Wifi Blu-ray™ Home Theater System HT-EM54C
Review 1 for Samsung HT-EM54C 3D Wifi Blu-ray™ Home Theater System HT-EM54C
Rating
2 out of 5
2 out of 5
PredHead
Location:Mid-South
Date:November 4, 2012

Can't recommend at this time

Pros: middle speakers work well, owners manual is good for installation
Cons: no surround sound for t.v. channels, owners manual is worthless for functionality
Model Number: HT-EM54C
"I cannot recommend this product to anyone who may have previously owned a "true surround sound" system. The surround sound (SS) does not function with television channels, even if broadcast in SS. This renders the product basically useless if downloading movies or watching the tube. SS is only available when using the DVD player.
That said, the 2 speakers that do function when not watching a DVD, work well.
If you want to go wireless for the rear speakers, you will need to purchase a card and receiver (together) for about $150.
My previous Samsung system provided SS regardless of input source and wireless rear speakers without any additional purchases. All of that was done for about the same price as this system."
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.
Review 2 for Samsung HT-EM54C 3D Wifi Blu-ray™ Home Theater System HT-EM54C
Rating
3 out of 5
3 out of 5
lduck
Date:August 19, 2012

Just can't get the surrounding sound effect

Pros: easy set up
"It is an average system. 3D sound effect is good. Just can't seem to get the surround sound effect just right. Perhaps my room is too big for the system. The back ground music can be too loud that you have to strain to hear all dialogues."
Review 3 for Samsung HT-EM54C 3D Wifi Blu-ray™ Home Theater System HT-EM54C
Rating
4 out of 5
4 out of 5
LEFASPAN
Location:Colorado
Date:August 3, 2012

Great Sound - no earphone connection

Pros: great system
Cons: no earphone connection
Model Number: HT-EM54C
"As far as sound and digital features, I agree with most reviewers - the system is very good. However, an essential hardware feature is missing - no earphone connection. There are times when other people in the house would like some quiet. Earphones would allow one to enjoy the systems features without disturbing others. In this age, it is inconceivable that such a simple hardware feature would be missing."
Review 4 for Samsung HT-EM54C 3D Wifi Blu-ray™ Home Theater System HT-EM54C
Rating
2 out of 5
2 out of 5
Anonymous
Date:July 24, 2012

Good for small room only

Pros: compact size, sound quality is good
Cons: limited size room capability
Model Number: HT-EM54C
"Overall reviews are good but make sure you measure your speaker wire distance needs. Samsung does not give you very much wire and it is plugged specifically for each speaker. If you plan to run speaker wire for a relatively long distance, you may be in for a surprise and have splice wire which will take away from your speaker performance."
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.
Review 5 for Samsung HT-EM54C 3D Wifi Blu-ray™ Home Theater System HT-EM54C
Rating
1 out of 5
1 out of 5
Mandarin
Location:Kansas
Date:May 26, 2012

Not Ready for Prime Time System

Pros: great price., impressive sound., easy set up - especially with samsung tv's
Cons: limited blu-ray playablility., zero credible technical support from samsung
Model Number: HT-EM54C_ZA
"Purchased this in mid-May and was attracted by the very reasonable price. Bottom line, however, is that sometimes you get what you pay for. The Blu-Ray player does not currently play many Blu-Ray movies. After spending an hour chatting online with Samsung Technicians via their web site support link and finally calling Samsung to complain, a confession was made that the Blu-Ray player simply does not play many recent movies. In fact, during the call, the Customer Service Representative asked which movies I had attempted to watch because Samsung is currently compiling a list of discs that cannot be viewed in the hopes of eventually providing future firmware/software updates. Typically, if a customer buys something as expensive as this, there is an expectation that it will be a little more usable out of the box. For now, I'm still playing my Blu-Ray rentals off of a laptop. This almost seems like a repeat of the Blu-Ray debacle that resulted in Samsung losing a major lawsuit in 2008 for selling products that did not perform. As the previous reviewer noted - the jury is, indeed, still out."
8 of 8 people found this review helpful.
Review 6 for Samsung HT-EM54C 3D Wifi Blu-ray™ Home Theater System HT-EM54C
Rating
3 out of 5
3 out of 5
24fps
Location:Burlingame, CA
Date:May 8, 2012

Jury is still out

Pros: great blu-ray functionality, great sound for the (little) money
Cons: cool internet features not ready for prime time
Model Number: HT-EM54C
"This is an excellent Blu-ray player with very good home theater sound for the money...but a key reason I bought it is Samsung's Smart Hub feature, which is in all of their new TVs too.
Smart Hub has sophisticated, PC-like internet media applications...which don't really work yet. The Web Browser app (an absolutely key feature) worked when I first fired up the unit, but it's now broken, probably after a software update (this thing is ALWAYS doing s/w updates). This pretty much kills Smart Hub for me and if it doesn't get fixed soon I'll return the unit.
Also: the unit supports a USB keyboard which, in theory, is super cool as with it you can move around the interface with PC smoothness. Problem is...key applications DO NOT support keyboard entry! The YouTube and Vimeo apps make you pick individual characters off a menu; they won't recognize your keyboard's character entry at all.
So far, I'm pretty disappointed but I'll wait a couple more weeks to see if Sammy fixes all this with yet another s/w update."
10 of 10 people found this review helpful.