Sony BDP-S570B 3D Blu-ray Player

I've had this player now for about 48 hours. I like it a lot, its a vast improvement over the Sony S300 which was my old one. The best feature is the start up time which is a few seconds, the S300 took more than a minute. The machine is responsive - no more waiting for ages for a response after pushing a button in the remote. The blu-ray output is simply lovely; I think it may be even sharper than the S300 - which was also very good. The icing on the cake is the internet player features. There is BBC iplayer and the channel 5 one along with some sports channels, a Sony one and a Lovefilm one. To access these, you need to link the machine to your broadband network. It was a pretty painless process to set up for wireless internet; it took me about 2 minutes. The internet players then just work, the BBC even does HD. There was one small niggle, when I tried to link my Lovefilm subscription to the blu-ray player via the Sony account (less complex than it sounds), the Sony website fell over. The website Sony have set up to handle product registration and things like Lovefilm activation is not the best. It's ugly, very basic and it crashed several times as I was trying to register the player and link the Lovefilm account. The site has the look and feel of something that has been cobbled together at short notice and it spoiled an otherwise painless setup experience. I can't comment on the 3D output because I'm still saving up my pennies for a 3D TV. The only other niggle I have with the machine (and its minor) is the size of the power plug. You can't unplug the power lead from the player, and the plug was too large to fit through the hole in the back of my TV unit. So I had to cut off the plug, pass the cable through the hole and rewire a new plug. I know its trivial, but all the other plugs for the TV, DVD and home cinema went through that hole. By the way, there is no earth wire in the player's power lead. In summary, love the player, love the output quality, love the iplayer HD and the Lovefilm streaming. Happy with this purchase and I'd recommend it to anyone.

I bought this to replace a Sharp profile 1 Blu Ray player that was slow to boot up, took ages to load movies, did not like some discs (saying they were incompatible) and often stuttered and stopped during movies. Firmware updates over two years were few and far between and it annoyed me so much I decided to buy the Sony. So far the Sony has been everything I expected living up to its excellent reviews. It starts up from cold in about ten seconds, It loads Blu Ray Avatar in under 30secs (compared with the Sharpe's 9 minutes!) and most Blu Ray movies as quick as a DVD player. Its built in wifi connected to my secure router easily and it streams BBC iplayer well. Some other internet services available on it seem of dubious value to me but may appeal to some. All this and 3d capability as well should I ever decide to get a 3D TV. It detects firmware updates automatically and installed an update from Sony immediately it first connected. Movie images are just amazing (much much better than cinema quality)and sound is great and it plays music cd to a high standard through my Yamaha surround sound system. A great buy and Amazon was the cheapest and in stock. Update Jan 2011. Now bought a Samsung 3D TV (PS50C680G5). This TV automatically detects the Sony Blu Ray and I can access internet tv via the Sony with the Samsung remote. The Blu Ray player is getting noisy and this is most noticible when loading discs but you can hear it buzzing in quiet moments during movie playback.

I bought this a couple of weeks ago to replace a Sharp Aquos model that had recently thrown in the towel. Really impressive player: picture quality is excellent - I've got it connected up to a Sony STR-DH810 receiver (also from Amazon) and a Bravia 40" TV I bought a couple of years ago. Matching kit means fewer remotes :-) Given that the Sharp I had didn't do much (other than *eventually* play a film), this has been an eye-opener. BBC iPlayer, LoveFilm, YouTube... (there are more) are all nice little gizmos that add value to an already well-priced piece of hardware. For the price, it's hard to beat - particularly if you're after a certain brand to match in with what you already have. The only *slight* downside to this player is that - whilst it's advertised as .mp4 .mkv etc compatible, these formats will only work from a USB stick (or, I assume USB hard drive) rather than from a network source, so streaming to it from a PC requires some other approach (I'm about to test iSedora for this). If it did this out of the box, it'd be perfect as I'm currently streaming via the XBOX 360, and that's a little behind the times for this. Anyway, if you're in need of a good player, this is an excellent option.

I bought this before Christmas...great delivery as ever, easy to set up, but I do have a Sony TV.......great picure quality when playing Bluray and DVDs. Be aware though, if you use Tiscali/Talk Talk to get your internet, you will not be able to view Iplayer. Sony are blaming the BBC and Tiscali, but it is basically is their fault as their browser doesn't work. I have never got it working yet, hence the 1 star as it is heavily advertised as having this functionality. So if you are getting it for only Bluray...buy it is good, but if you have Tiscali and want BBC iplayer...avoid like the plague until Sony sort it out.

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While everything else about this player has been quite nice, I bought it explicitly to play US disks ... which it does not :(