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User Submitted Sony BDP-S370 Blu-ray Disc Player Reviews Date: 2010-07-09 Sony stuff just works I recently purchased a Samsung BD-C5500 1080p Blu-ray Disc Player...I loved the feature set and design but unfortunately it wouldn't play most of my SD DVD's and it had an image and sound quality issue (Yes I downloaded all the updates). Amazon let me return the Samsung and I purchased the Sony BDP-S370 instead. I don't care for the design as much as the Samsung and I miss VUDU which the Sony doesn't have but I do love the fact that it simply works. It plays every DVD in my collection and the streaming functionality is great. If you want a product that won't give you any trouble stick with Sony. Date: 2010-07-08 Middle of the road performance at a good price. BluRay playback, audio and video are incredible. I see and hear things I never notice before in my favorite movies... And that's kinda where the hoopla and fanfare ends with this player: Using HDMI the output 'glitches' and the TV re-recognizes the input as active. The player messes up interlacing of the first few frames of a new clip or scene. Upscaling on DVDs scrolling text or frozen pictures show jaggy edges, very ugly. I let my TV do the upscaling, it's waaaay better than the S370. The firmware onboard was old, I upgraded the day I got it. That was a +50Mb download - not for dial-up or users! It was easy enough to burn the CD and the player upgraded. I haven't had a try of streaming or DNLA yet. No interest in 3D, wanted SACD player, intreagued by the DNLA possibilities and I was on a tight budget. It was this or an Oppo. The S370 won out... for now. I might still return it and upgrade. Date: 2010-06-26 Great Picture Quality. Warning on USB drive... This is my first blu-ray disc player, and I am really impressed. The picture quality of DVDs and Blurays discs are excellent. I also have a Sony Bravia M-Series KDL-32M4000 32-Inch 720p LCD HDTVso this could also be a reason for the great results. The video quality on the netflix service is wonderful. And, the other audio and video services are good as well. I downloaded the BD Remote app to my Iphone Touch. Now, I can control the player with my Touch. You're supposed to be able to view special content while connected to the Touch, but I haven't found any disc that uses this feature. I'm pretty disappointed with this. To get the BD-Live special features to work, you have to have at least a 1GB USB flash drive. THE PLAYER DOES NOT RECOGNIZE FLASH DRIVES OVER 2GB. The Flash drive also has to be formated in the FAT32 format. (None of this information is explicitly provided in the manual.) Overall, I am really...really happy with my purchase. UPDATE: 7/17/2010 -------------------- The Flash drive issue was my fault. The flash drive must be placed in the REAR flash connection for it to work. The DLNA is now available and it's pretty awesome. I'm able to play music and video off of my computer on the same network. (They are connected through a router.) I could not find a way to organize the music files though (i.e., no playlists or anything.) Date: 2010-06-15 nice picture BUT This blu ray player does display very nice crisp pictures, but missing is that very desireable feature of "resume from last stop". You are able to pause, and later choose to start from the begining or from where you stopped, but, if you remove the disc and put it back in later you will have lost this choice and it will start from the beginning again. Date: 2010-06-02 Read the specs carefully I bought this player because according to the manufacturers specs it would play the file formats for Divx and MKV. I hooked the player up right away and noticed it wouldn't play the Divx files or even recognize them. I updated the player to the latest software and this didnt help. I contacted Sony support and they told me to look at the fine print on page 32 in the manual and in the fine print it states that Divx is only for the Canadian players. This upset me quite a bit that they can't give that support to US consumers unless they buy a PS3. I don't want to run a PS3 with 300+ watts to be able to watch these file formats and Blu-rays. I would much rather use a blu-ray player with 20-25 watts. I also couldnt get the BDP-s370 to play any MKV files, Sony said it should play them but my player wouldn't so I had to return the player. I ended up buying the LG BD570 and that one will play anything I throw at it. I dont think I'll be buying any Sony products after this. * Price is subject to change. |
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