
In their
review of this wall-mountable Samsung blue-ray player Wired points out an annoying trend in home entertainment electronics: they're a pain to install and setup properly because of the huge amount of connections and settings.
Initial installation proved to be a troubling process of trial-and-error steps to get all the features working properly. Like all entertainment electronics today, the bulk of setup and navigational controls falls to the remote, also encased in a shiny black luster. Basic controls are hidden under the front panel with easy-to-miss, touch-sensitive backlit buttons. Discs are inconveniently slot-loaded on the side.
This product seems to be a matter of valuing 'design' over usability. It's kind of hard to make a 1,5 inch thick blue-ray player and also make it comfortable to plug all the cables into it. And touch-sensitive controls definitely
look cool, but 'controls' is actually not such a good word for them; LG
learned that on the Chocolate. No wonder AT&T started offering a
home cinema installation service.
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