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Sony BDP-S300 1080p Tabletop Blu-ray Disc Player - Stereo - Refurbished

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Sony Blu-Ray Disc Player (BDP-S300)

I had to update firmware on this thing every other month yet still half the time it does not want to play a regular DVD Disk. I power on my old (from 2001 or so) $60 Panasonic DVD player and it plays every DVD. This "high end device" from SONY does not. When it works I have no problems with it. Picture quality is good, so is audio. Load times are SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW. Yup. That slow. Normal blue ray watching routine: 1. turn player ON 2. go check email, or create a salad, or whatever else that takes about 5 minutes. 3. come back... player is powered ON 4. load disk.... go back to step 2. Seriously easily 5 min from power ON to watch. Very upsetting if I think about it. But all this would have not brought me here to write this if the damn thing would only work and be backward compatible with regular DVDs but it is often not and that is just unacceptable. DO NOT BUY THIS!

This is the worse purchase I have made. It plays not blue Ray fine, but not blue Ray. Sony rep tells me I need updates every few weeks. 5 to 7 day, and the movie rental is only 5 days. Save your money and get on demand.

This is an awful device. Sometimes it plays a Blu ray disc, then if you try to play it again, it cannot read it, then it plays it the next day - I am quite familiar with washing discs to make them play and this problem is unrelated to the condition of the disc. Second, it takes ages to load and play discs - very very sluggish. Then the firmware updates Sony issues are windows only - they distribute .exe self extracting files which expand to provide a .iso - no idea why the geniuses there haven't worked out that they could just distribute the .iso and save Mac users like me the headache of having to use a windows machine somewhere to update the firmware. Basically, I regret this purchase and recommend that you pass on this device.

After constantly downloading firmware every 24 days (search, locate, follow complicated instructions, download, burn image to disk - not easy to do - load in player, wait 30 minutes for it to work, adjust settings... then you can watch your movie. But you won't know that you need to do this until after you get your movie, make popcorn, put the kids to bed, grab a beer... all of a sudden... you've got problems.) OK, aside from that frustration above, expect to experience SLOW power on, SLOW open disc, SLOW load disc. Expect random senseless errors that make it impossible for you to watch that new $30 DVD you just bought. Then call Sony, sit on hold, talk to India, 3 hours later, it's 2 am and you finally learn that you need to send it in for repair... only $115. That's just to look at it. Get the picture? Google this player. Google SONY DVD Blue Ray. You'll see what I mean. It's not a good brand. Look elsewhere, or you'll hear me (and the massive others) saying "I told you so" in your ear.

Takes a while to load if you dont upgrade the firmware but its still a good unit either way. the sound/video quality is way better then the cheap one i bought from wal-mart.

This is a good blu-ray player from Sony. But some blu-ray movies take 2 to 3 min. to load. But it is one of the low cost blu-ray players out there. So get it today!