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Sony BDP-S770 3D Blu-ray Disc Player with Wi-Fi

Sony BDP-S770 3D Blu-ray Disc Player with Wi-Fi

Amazon Sales Rank: #1194 in Home Theater Brand: Sony Model: BPD-S770 Dimensions: 8.00 pounds Built-In Wi-Fi: Connect to your home's wireless broadband network 3D Blu-ray Disc Full HD 1080p playback , 3D Blu-ray Disc movies in Full HD 1080p Also supports standard Blu-ray Disc movies in HD and upscales DVDs to near HD quality USB Input - Simply connect your digital camera, USB-enabled MP3 player, or USB storage device 1GB built-in memory

Most helpful customer reviews 61 of 66 people found the following review helpful. GREAT blu-ray player By Go Terps I've only had this player for about a week or so, but it has exceeded my expectations. I was a little skeptical to buy it from the SonyStyle website before I could read any user reviews or see the rating on Cnet, let alone find it anywhere else for sale. However, it was worth the risk. Here are a few things that stand out: 1) blu-ray content looks amazing 2) looks good, is easy to use (remote and exterior controls) 3) amazing built-in capabilities: built in Wifi is smooth, Netflix, Pandora, and the amazing Berlin Phil Digital Music Hall 4) Set-up of wifi is very easy...you are guided right through After one week, I have zero complaints and give it the highest recommendation. ps--I don't even use the 3D capability and don't care, so I can't comment on that 73 of 82 people found the following review helpful. Great All Around Player, but .... By Jeremy A Edson I have been nothing but impressed with the quality of the BDP-S770. It is a fantastic Blu-ray, Netflix, Amazon, and Qriocity media playing device. It has just about every feature that you could possibly want, with one exception. One of the main reasons I bought this particular player was for its DLNA capabilities. I have a DLNA media server that has around 400 h.264 movies and thousands of AAC songs and I was hoping that the BDP-S770 would be able to play them through DLNA streaming. This is not the case. At first I was just confused, the device showed all my pictures from the media server, but would not show or play any music or movies. After digging though the manual for a little bit I found a few very curious footnotes. The device only supports AAC and H.264 video through a direct connection! It cannot stream these formats from my media server, which is very disappointing. If you want a top of the line Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Blu-ray player .... then this is the device for you. Just dont expect it to live up to the hype when it comes to your DLNA media servers. Hopefully they will address this via a firmware update, which if they do, this would turn into a 5 star review. 45 of 50 people found the following review helpful. BDP-S770 Blu RAy Player Streaming Issues By D. Mcdermott Just got the newest Sony 3D BluRay player, BDP-S770. Really bought it so I could stream internet content to my HDTV. This new player has very quick startup and video quality of my Bluray disks when played on the S770 are much better than my S350. Internet hookup went well, but have one issue. I can not get Dolby 5.1 sound to stream when streaming HD movies that have Dolby 5.1. The test HD movie clip from Amazon video on demand has great video but the sound is PCM. I assumed that the player would stream Dolby 5.1 but it does not according to Sony. I get great Dolby 5.1 when playing disks but not when streaming via internet (ony get PCM sound), and I have a very fast Verizon FIOS 35 Mbps connection and I used Ethernet cable from my router to the Blu Ray S770. My S770 is connected to my surround sound amp via a digital cable (I also tried an optic cable with no luck). I called Sony and they said the S770 was not designed to stream Dolby 5.1 when streaming HD movies. Seems like a dumb design. I am considering returning the player since I bought it to replace my present practise of renting disks at Blockbuster. Without Dolby 5.1 sound, I am missing the surround sound experience unless I use disks. See all 43 customer reviews...

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