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Samsung HT-C5500 Blu-ray Home Theater System | 
| Brand: Samsung
Category: CE
List Price: $499.99
Buy New: $397.00
as of 9/10/2010 13:00 CDT details
You Save: $102.99 (21%)
New (9) Used (5) Refurbished (1) from $299.00
Seller: Electronics Expo
Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 9418
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 7.7
Dimensions (in): 2.5 x 12.8 x 16.9
MPN: HT-C5500
Model: HT-C5500
UPC: 036725617148
EAN: 0036725617148
ASIN: B0037QF7LQ
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 1000W Output Power | | • | Crystal Amp Pro | | • | Intelligent Power | | • | Advanced Auto Sound Calibration | | • | Eco Power Management System |
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Product Description
Samsungs 1000W HT-C5500 Blu-ray Home Theater System brings the entertainment home: Internet@TV delivers the best of the web, straight to your HDTV, with downloadable widgets and apps like BLOCKBUSTER, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, Pandora and more. You can shop online, share pictures, catch up with friends and more. Connect to a wide range of streaming digital content at the touch of a button. Your Samsung Home Theater is also wireless-ready, giving you the convenience of less cords, less hassle. Its also part of DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance). Samsungs DLNA Certified Home Theaters have AllShare, which enables content to be seamlessly streamed between DLNA devices, allowing you to play files stored on your PC through your home theater. An earth-friendly Eco Power Management System uses only the energy it needs, and 30% less energy overall compared to 2009 models. And Samsungs new Crystal Amplifier Pro uses sophisticated feedback circuit technology that filters sound distortion and noise to provide pure sound.
FEATURES: - Infinite Entertainment with Internet@TV - Samsung's exclusive Internet@TV technology opens up more worlds than you can possibly imagine. And puts it all on a large and brilliant screen. Effortlessly connecting to the Internet, it lets you enjoy all the brilliant content the Web has to offer. Enhancing, enriching and easy, you can organize, add and delete content via its Samsung Applications library. Many models even allow you to make Internet video calls, so youre not only connected to your videos, youre connected to your friends. Immerse yourself in the infinite options.
- Kill the Noise with Crystal Clarity - Let the Samsung HT-C5500's crystal-clear sea of sound carry you away. Engineered with Noise Compensation technology, the Crystal Amplifier eliminates distracting distortion by quickly sensing
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 Excellent Sound and good value August 20, 2010
Mitch Deerfield (Florida)
I would strongly recommend this Home Theater System, especially if you have a Samsung TV, as the two units "talk" to each other and you can control your HDTV with the Blu-Ray Remote Control.
The best thing besides the sound quality is the fact that you can buy an adapter and stream [...] music at 192 Kbps, and also Netflix or Blockbuster movies. I might subscribe to Netflix in a few months and cancel my Starz subscription, because NetFlix includes it. I love the sounds quality with Pandora and listen to it exclusively.
It only has one HDMI output and one Optical Digital sound input, but that is enough for most people. The back speakers are only wireless if you buy an adapter .. not worth it for me. The Samsung LAN adapter for Netflix and Pandora costs between $45-75 depending where you buy it or if it is refurbished.
 Needs some quality control August 19, 2010
WorkingGuy
I just returned my system after 1 day of use. The console produced a crackling sound out of the left front speaker and within a couple minutes would turn off all sound while playing a Blu-Ray. This error was repeated using different speakers on the same signal. I'm not interested in wasting any time with tech support. It either works straight out of the box or it doesn't. That's what Quality Control gets paid for. I do give the system a couple stars for what it was capable of doing, when it did work.
Overall, not nearly as impressed with the software and usability as I am with the Samsung TV I got at the same time. That TV gets 5 stars.
Nice hardware, terrible software July 27, 2010
Xaprb (Charlottesville, VA USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
It's a nice form factor, looks great, and would be just what I want if it would only work. I had to connect to the internet and let it upgrade itself before it would even play DVDs. I could select chapters in the menu, but not play them! It doesn't actually do half of what it is supposed to do. It detects my iTunes server, but says "unsupported format", even though the user manual says MP3 is supported. So much for that. Then, when it's playing DVDs or Blu-Ray discs, or streaming from Netflix, the sound and picture get way out of sync, like a second to a second-and-a-half. All the movies start to feel like bad Japanese dubbing. And the blank area around the 16:9 is filled with unattractive "video junk" that looks like a buggy video card driver or something.
Overall, even if it actually worked, the interface is extremely tedious and confusing, so it's difficult to switch from DVD to Netflix, for example, if there is a disc in the tray. I never did actually figure out how to use it, even after reading the manual a couple of times. I had to randomly try buttons on the remote until it would get me to the system menu where I could choose the function I wanted.
I returned this unit to exchange it for a Sony BDV-E570. So far, the Sony seems to function much better and has none of the above problems. It also has much better bass, although I was not really looking for a system that would impress me -- just one that would be small and unobtrusive, and function nicely.
OK July 26, 2010
Jarett Pitlock
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The theater system is brand new so samsung obviously has some bugs to work out. It has trouble turning on when pressing power, it turns on its chime when already turned off in settings mode, and a little difficult to operate in general. Price and sound are great though.
 FIRE HAZARD, and a general piece of crap anyway July 17, 2010
G (BALLWIN, MISSOURI, US)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
The first time I received this abomination, I set it up, and with the excitement of a kid on Christmas, I plugged it in. It was at the point that the speakers started making a horrible sound and the receiver CAUGHT ON FIRE! I decided this must be a freak incident and decided I would do an exchange and give it another try. Well, luckily, the next one didn't try to burn my house down. It does, however, have the functionality of a mentally retarded chipmunk. The eject button works sometimes. The menu button works sometimes. Half the time I turn it on my TV says "no signal." The rear speakers will randomly turn off. The front right speaker crackles. When the menu button does work, the menu usually pops up for a whole second, then goes to a black screen. It will not progress the FBI Warning screen on a dvd without manually pressing the dvd menu button. I used the musical room calibration to automatically configure my speakers. Phh, that was a joke! It correctly determined the front left and right speakers to be about 10 feet away, but then it said that the center speaker, which is attached to the same wall as the other 2, was 30 feet away! It said one of the surround speakers (which are equidistant from the reciever) was 8 feet away, and the other 18 feet away! Not that any of this mattered, as it didn't actually save the setting next time i turned it on.
Some other cons that have nothing to do with this thing being the spawn of satan, basically, design failures:
1) 1 hdmi input, 1 optical input. I only needed one of each, but I can see how this would really suck for a lot of people.
2) When ever any button is pressed on the remote, the BD Receiver button flashes bright yellow, very rapidly. I feel like I'm going to have a seizure every time I press a button. It actually gave me a headache, like everything else about this system.
3) The volume knob is very wobbly and just feels cheap.
One last thing, I am not the only one who has experience the fire issue. I read a review of another model from samsung where the person had the same issue with it catching on fire, except he has his for a while. He just happened to be there when it happened. I don't know why these samsung products are apparent death traps, but I will not be purchasing another samsung product until this issue is addressed and dealt with, and I recommend the same to all of you out there reading this who don't want to burn to death.
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