I've had nothing but good luck with Sony products in the past, so I thought this would be a good bet, but do not buy this product. Sometimes it won't turn on unless you actually unplug it, then re-plug it in. And even then, sometimes it still won't turn on. And once you finally get it on, it won't always turn off. Very disappointing.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
Response from sony.comBy Dave, SonySupport, December 31, 2014
Hi jthomas349, We're sorry for what happened here. Please perform power reset for your Blu-ray player. Remove from the wall outlet for at-least 1 minute and also remove the any connection such as HDMI from your Blu-ray player then put it back in after 1 minute. Thanks,
compact, easy to use, picture streaming using Netflix, etc is perfect and we bought this unit on sale, Family and friends all say that our set-up is easy to use and picture quality is supurb
Updates firmware easily. Excellent picture and host of choices. I like the dedicated subtitles button on the remote to turn on, turn off subtitles. The slightly raised crisscross pattern on top of player is still flat enough to hold the remote and DVDs.. It may be my fault, but I can't regularly mark a spot to return to, if I pause the player for over 10 minutes or so. I have to start all over about half the time.. (I think using the stop button would cure this.) Half the time there is a resume screen, but that may be built into certain DVDs. So far 12 months of use, the player is very reliable.
Nice size. Just set it up so haven't really used it yet. Most disappointed that Sony no longer makes any Blu-Ray DVD playerstha have RCA audio out jacks. It makes hooking up to an older amp impossible. Such a shame. I was going to return it until I realized that Sony has nothing that meets my need. Oh well, I will just have to depend on the HDTV's speakers!