Customer reviews from sony.com
Sony - Wi-Fi Ready Blu-ray Player
Average customer rating
2.8
(34 Reviews)
Rating breakdown 34 reviews
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39%of customers recommend this product.
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13 out of
33)
Customer Reviews for Sony - Wi-Fi Ready Blu-ray Player
Customer Rating
4
Watch the Updates
on March 2, 2011
Posted by: StylenandProfilen
Whelp what can I say?
Installation was a breeze. Setup was a breeze also.
After setting up my Netflix account, I found out I had to instant que movies in order to watch movies from Netflix on the unit.
I ran through the menues and noticed Cinema Now (will be coming). It made me excited that this feature was coming since I was told by the sales person it was coming.
A few days after owning the Blu Ray, a firmware update came and sure enough, Cinema Now, is not coming. Actually Cinema Now is MIA. I can only hope that the next firmware upgrade will give us Cinema Now.
In all fairness, there are other content providers to choose purchase or rent from. amazon is one of them.
I don't really have a beef with the unit just that when I purchased it, I was under the impression Cinema Now would be available. Aside of that, the unit WORK Flawlessly. Picture Quality meets and exceeds expecteation. Either via HDMI or Component out puts.
I Hope You Enjoy Yours for the features and benefits.
What's great about it: Easy to use
What's not so great: Content Content Content, what happen?
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting sony.com
Customer Rating
1
Horrible Netflix Interface
on March 3, 2011
Posted by: Davox
If you are planning on using Netflix don’t buy this device or any other Sony Blu-Ray players from what I can tell. Sony Restricts the Netflix search and menu capabilities and only allows you to stream what’s in your queue.
If all you want to do is watch Blu-ray movie on this device you better also buy a USB thumb drive and plug it into the back of the unit because without external memory it will not play Blu-ray movies. Once you do this though you will be impressed with the picture quality.
Thumbs down Sony.
What's great about it: picture quality
What's not so great: Horrible Netflix Interface, No Internal Memory
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
Written by a customer while visiting sony.com
Customer Rating
4
Yellow Blue Red Green bottoms no function
on February 25, 2011
Posted by: thomaslane
I bought this Blue Ray DVD player. It gives clearer picture than regular DVD player even if I use old DVD disc/movie. However, the manual never explains the functions of the bottoms of Yellow, Blue, red and Green on the remote controler. Very confuse. The istruction manual is not for the layman. Read manual p 16 to P 20. You know what I mean.
What's great about it: Clearer than regular DVD player.
What's not so great: confused manual
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting sony.com
Customer Rating
4
Netflix
on February 18, 2011
Posted by: Auggie
It would be nice if Sony has an update for Netflix to be able to access Netflix and choose movies rather than to use the PC first.
What's great about it: Price
What's not so great: Limited Netflix Options
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting sony.com
Customer Rating
1
disapointing experience
on December 23, 2011
Posted by: SamB
I rushed to the NEX to buy this supposedly WiFi Blue-Ray player and got home hoping to watch Netflix. Instead I found out that this Blu-Ray player is not WiFi capable without an extra part that doubles the price of this thing. The packaging and ad should point this out, but it doesn't.
What's great about it: price
What's not so great: not Wifi-Ready without adapter
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
Written by a customer while visiting sony.com
Customer Rating
2
Sony Blu Ray Disc player BDP-BX57
on February 12, 2011
Posted by: AzCactus
This was was purchased for the purpose of watching netflix on our bedroom tv. The netflix application in this device is terrible, you can only access movies that are in the netflix intant cue. You can't seach for movies from this device, you have to do it on a seperate computer, move them to your instant cue and then and only then you can access them with this device. I will be returning this product as soon as I finish writting this review.
What's great about it: Price was reasonable for the advertised features
What's not so great: Sony registration process was not fun. Not good for Netflix.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
Written by a customer while visiting sony.com
Customer Rating
1
Don't Buy if you want to use Netflix
on May 15, 2011
Posted by: awhitinga
I bought this specifically because I have always been a Sony fan and because I had just ordered the Netflix streaming service. Well, I am not a Sony fan anymore as this thing generally manages to play about 2 - 4 minutes of a movie before it just locks up and you have to turn it off and on again and restart the movie if you want another 2 - 4 minutes of the movie.
Its OK as a Blu Ray DVD player but you can get one of those a lot cheaper and as they are everybit as good. With Netflix - this thing is a disaster - so I went out and bought a Roku player and it is unbelievable.
What's great about it: Good Blu-Ray DVD player
What's not so great: Does not play Netflix reliably - EVER
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
Written by a customer while visiting sony.com
Customer Rating
3
major disappointment
on April 12, 2011
Posted by: sunmar
i bought this specifically for viewing movies from netflix - i thought maybe i didn't set this up right and found from other consumers that they had the same issue - upon looking at the complaints, it appears sony responded back on one of them and said they were working on it that an upgrade would be forthcoming - it's been several months and so far, nothing new for the upgrade on netflix - am considering switching to a different brand
What's great about it: easy to operate and set up
What's not so great: netflix
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
Written by a customer while visiting sony.com