An enhancement around the s350 product. Initial factor i noticed when i opened the box was a absence of cables. There was none, in addition to the electric power cord. There are no audio cables, online video cables and so on. The construct high quality is rather very good on the other hand the front buttons on the product experience affordable, as does the remote manage, which feels even less expensive.
There is no blue mild at the entrance of the gadget, and the push is now a tray push that would not open the part of the entrance of the device. Which utilized to be an difficulty with pioneer's or samsungs' to start with batch of blu-ray drives as the usb push was at the front way too, so you experienced to take away the usb unit first, otherwise you'd split the go over. One of the very tooted options apart from the blu-ray is the online characteristics. The dilemma with that is you want to hook up the machine to your hub, there is a lan jack at the back again, but if you want a wireless connection you are looking at a pretty really highly-priced usb dongle, typical dongles wont operate. I have applied two from netgear and berlin and they would not do the job.
A really outstanding, multi-structure player. I've experienced this device for a minimal while and hope to remedy some of the thoughts i had ahead of buying. Blu-ray playback. As you would almost certainly count on from a sony machine, blu-ray playback is flawless. The bdp-s370 is by far the speediest device at loading a disc i have owned, using all around 10-twenty seconds for most discs, regardless of menu complexity.
Video and audio high quality are both equally fantastic on my set up - a marked advancement over a finances device i might picked up at argos very last year for about £100. Bd-dwell is supported, whilst you can expect to need to have a usb push hooked up (at the back again of the unit) to activate this operation. I consider it is really value leaving one plugged in at all times - although be aware a 2gb generate can fill up quickly depending on the motion pictures loadeddvd playback. Although the bdp-s370 is not region-cost-free out of the box, it can be created so rather easily by employing the 1 4 all remote hack (pointed out in other reviews). After unlocked, it will perform discs from any location devoid of dilemma, which include area (location free of charge) discs and rce shielded region 1 discs.
Pros
- Do it yourself region free
- Superb Quality and Value for money for Blu-Ray, DVD Upscaling, iPlayer use and Audio/Video Streaming
- Sony Blu Ray player 370 model
- Blue-Ray just got better.
- Great machine, apart from?
- An excellent buy
Cons
- Not good for iplayer!
- BE CAREFUL!!!!!!!!
- 6 months and it starts skipping
- Loud whining noise during BR playback
- ### DO NOT BUY THIS MACHINE.
- Poor product from giant Sony.
Negative Review of Sony BDPS370 Blu-ray Player
Noisy when playing discs. I was very excited to make my first foray into the world of blu-ray and thought i could trust sony, having 2 of their bravia tvs and 2 good sony dvd players. However, as soon as i put a disc in to play, it made an irritatingly loud noise, ie/ i could hear the disc whirring around in the machine. I hoped that this would only occur whilst the disc was loading and not during playback, but sadly this was not the case. I tried a few discs so it wasn't a particular disc being problematic.
I tried to convince myself i was being pedantic and that i could live with it, but during every quiet moment of the film i could hear the machine chugging away, which spoilt my enjoyment. Shame, as picture and sound quality seemed very good. I returned it to amazon who, as always, were brilliant and have issued a full refund. The trouble is i don't know if i got a faulty one or if they are all like that - i find it hard to believe it could have got so many good reviews if this was a 'feature' of this model. I am tempted to give it another try, especially as it has gone down £25 in price since i bought it.
Features of Sony BDPS370 Blu-ray Player
- Amazon Instant Video Compatible
- Watch and listen to content in full HD 1080P thanks to Blu-ray Disc(TM)
- Watch DVDs in near HD 1080p quality with DVD upscaling
- Access YouTube(TM) and BBC iPlayer: Making the unmissable with the last 7 days of BBC TV and radio via your Blu-ray Disc(TM) Player with no need to connect your TV to your laptop or PC (via firmware update now available)
Very Impressed. I've by no means been one particular for sony's hi-fi gear as i desire the sound of other manufactures' machines, but i had been seeking for a blu-ray player that satisfied my demands for around a yr now. I was waiting around for oppo's bdp-831, which was inexplicably cancelled about a week after obtaining five star opinions in the main dwelling cinema and hello-fi magazines. Then the cambridge audio 650bd arrived out for the about identical selling price as the oppo's srp, but had worse high quality dacs and online video scaler, which put me off. Then the sony arrived out that played most of the disc kinds that the oppo and cambridge audio gamers (all but dvd-audio) for significantly less than half the value of those gamers. Chuck in iplayer help and i was marketed!i am incredibly glad i resolved to get this player. It masses blu-ray films quicker than a playstation 3, dvds more rapidly than my previous denon 1920 dvd player. Dvd up-scaling is strong, with the exception of line drawn animation (like family guy or the simpsons) which at times leads to slim horizontal traces to shake and split up. Blu-ray playback is exceptional and stable, delivered you have a television set that can screen 720p or 1080p at 24 fps. On-line written content was fairly fantastic, but i was not able to play hd material from lovefilm or youtube devoid of buffering challenges on my 'up to 8mb' from tiscali (which was no more rapidly than when i experienced their 'up to 2mb' assistance). Iplayer has no such complications even though as the bbc's servers are significantly quicker than the afore described services. A awesome surprise was getting that the usb playback aspect does aid h. 264/avc online video in a. Mkv container (it can be not talked about in the blurb, but is outlined in the handbook), so you can playback all those (legally acquired) television displays you've got downloaded from the web. Multi-area dvd playback can be realized by using universal remote (e. G. One4all, with the magic button, and logitech harmony) hacks, which are the very same as they were for the bdp-s360 (effortlessly identified by means of a google lookup). There is no such simple hack for multi-location blu-ray playback having said that. On some gamers multi-area blu-ray playback can be obtained by using a components hack, but that would invalidate your guarantee, so for most it truly is not worth the possibility. Even so, area coding on blu-ray discs is optional and a lot of 'region a' blu-ray discs are essentially area cost-free. If i experienced just one niggle with the player it would be that it will not have constructed in wireless networking, and the sony wireless network usb dongle is an pricey include-on which sells for 5 occasions the likely cost of other wireless network usb dongles. This by yourself even though is not plenty of for me to dock a star on an otherwise exemplary player. Dlna update (up-to-date 27-3-2012):------------obtaining not long ago crafted a nas machine (applying freenas), which has upnp/dlna aid, i assumed i'd give the bdp-s370's dlna client function a whirl. The 1st matter i located was that the sony player was rather fussy and i was not able to get it to link to frenas's fuppes upnp support (irrespective of seeking the dlna and playstation 3 profiles). I started off to look for all around for alternatives that i could put in on my key home windows seven sixty four little bit personal computer (with an eye for utilizing windows property server 2011 as a substitute of freenas). I attempted tversity, but no joy, then i tried using the sony encouraged serviio, but the software package didn't perform at all. Last but not least i attempted tvmobili, which was picked up by the bdp-s370 immediately. With tvmobili's transcoding characteristic disabled, i was capable to examination a variety of formats which include mp3, flac, avi (divx), mkv, mpeg-2, mpeg-ts, mpeg-m2ts and mp4. Flac wasn't supported, which is no surprise, but mkv, mp4 and mpeg-m2ts had been also not supported, which is odd taking into consideration that the bdp-s370 is very content participating in these formats on a usb hard drive. (surprisingly mpeg-ts files have the m2ts icon the the xrossbar ui, inspite of mpeg-ts and mpeg-m2ts remaining distinct and the bdp-s370's inability to play mpeg-m2ts by using dlna). I then turned on tvmobili's transcoding aspect and was able to then playback a flac (transcoded to lpcm, sans meta-facts) as nicely as an mkv file, transcoded to mpeg (even though i am doubtful as to which flavour of mpeg). The flac file experienced a pause of about 3-eight seconds ahead of playback commenced, with the mkv file it was much more like 20-40 seconds. When the transcoded mkv started actively playing again it experienced a noticeable judder in it, no question induced by the laptop to do serious-time transcoding of a 720p mkv. I then re-muxed the 720p mkv into a mpeg-ts stream (working with tsmuxer) and tried using playback again. Playback was smooth which implies that the problem was in truth the transcoding (and not the wireless network). A further factor that struck me, when browsing a substantial audio share, was how inadequate the xrossbar ui is when working with a large quantity of files in any given folder. Luckily tvmobili generates numerous pseudo folders which make navigation less complicated (e. G. Artist ->a-c ->allison crowe ->secrets), but even then it is still a alternatively long winded course of action. I not long ago tried out serviio out again with a home windows property server (whs) 2011 personal computer (a hp micro server) as a new serviio plugin for whs has been introduced and it labored effectively, though the computer system was underpowered for transcoding video, so i caught to divx avi, mpeg and mpeg-ts for the online video files. Just lately i found that tsmuxer was no extended operating with some mkvs, but i've a short while ago arrive throughout a new resource referred to as rebox. Internet, which can transform mkvs to mpeg-ts (with no transcoding), and it seems to perform with far more documents than tsmuxer does. Truth of the matter be explained to, the bdp-s370's dlna assistance is not overly valuable due to its weak video container guidance - connecting a usb hdd is a much better (not to mention much easier and less costly) solution. Wireless networking update (new):---------------------------------we all know that the official sony dongle is extortionate at just about 70% as much as the player itself. I was on the sony boards and a person outlined this netgear adaptor: netgear wnce2001 universal wifi online adaptor 802. 11n, which is more affordable (it performs by connecting to the bdp-370's lan socket and works by using its usb socket for energy). You will want a notebook to set it up, but for the conserving it is worthy of the extra inconvenience if you are comfortable with setting up a wi-fi community. This buffalo adaptor need to also perform buffalo airstation nfiniti twin band wi-fi-n ethernet converter, obtain position and bridge - wi-fi bridge - 802. eleven a/b/g/n - desktop. It has two lan sockets, so it would be useful if you have say an internet connected tv as very well as an web related blu-ray player. The draw back is that, compared with the netgear, it occupies a mains electrical power socket. I have not individually tried out both remedy as my bdp-370 is close ample to the router to be related by way of lan cable, but i considered the solution was value mentioning. If you do consider both, remember to write-up a remark to permit me know how you bought on. Seem overview (up to date):-------------------i've now had the opportunity to evaluate the sony bdp-s370's audio vs. My denon 1920 (a dvd/sacd/cd player). When taking part in sacds (super audio cds) the outdated denon conquer the sony arms down, acquiring larger element and clarity, although delivering a much more reasonable seem. I fairly expected this as the denon has a dsd centered dac which is the indigenous structure of a sacd, even though the sony has to transform the dsd sign to a pcm one particular as it has a pcm based mostly dac. I then moved onto an audio cd and a 24/96 dvd, the two of which are pcm primarily based, which usually means the denon need to be at a downside. On the other hand, the denon when again sent greater element and clarity, while once yet again providing a far more reasonable audio. So in summary even though the sony is a very good performer in film sound, it is much less completed as a tunes player and could do with some united kingdom tuning or some part updates. Nonetheless, most likely this is marginally unfair as the denon's cost as new was £100 additional than the sony's new value, on the other hand the denon is also 5 many years aged so things need to have improved considering the fact that then. I consider that sony's next player up sony bdp-570 is meant to have enhanced audio circuitry and 7. 1 analogue outputs, but if other critiques are right, then this update has finished practically nothing to strengthen the musicality. So i guess i am indicating that if you are a lot more of a audio person than a movie particular person, then the sony players may perhaps not be the right fit for you. Further more to my previous remarks, i experimented with using the analogue audio outputs on my samsung television as a substitute of all those on the the sony player. When i did the sound was straight away and significantly improved. I can hence conclude the bdp-s370's weak spot with sound lies with the analogue outputs (opamps/dacs). This indicates thatif you have a household cinema amplifier with hdmi, then you can efficiently sidestep this weakness. World-wide-web movie update:----------------------sony have just additional 'demand five' (five's capture-up assistance) to the internet movie part. I viewed archer and portion of chinese designed uncomplicated, both streamed comfortably with great quality, which was as superior as (if not superior than) freeview (sd)!regrettably i just uncovered that the drama area (i. E. Csi, grey's anatomy, and so forth. ) is not readily available via the bravia internet video variation of demand from customers five, which five informed me is thanks to licensing difficulties. This majorly influences its usefulness as five's primary shows are dramas, but you can still use it to capture up on household and away and neighbours. New: sony have additional their own video clip on desire provider, qriocity, which has a meagre choice of movies in sd and hd. Pricing for the qriocity movies ranges from four. ninety nine (for a new launch in hd) down to around 2. forty nine (for an aged movie in sd). Mkv support update:-------------------the mkv assistance is a little bit patchy. If a mkv incorporates avc/h. 264 video with a profile 'high @ amount five. 1' then the video will not engage in and you are going to be revealed an on display screen information indicating 'file corrupt or unsupported'. This is real of lots of hardware mkv gamers and as these types of most new mkvs are developed at 'high @ degree three. 1' or 'high @ degree four. 1' now times. The bizarre issue is that the profile degree is a suggestion, relatively than an absolute, so if you can improve the profile from amount 5. 1 to level 4. one then most media documents participate in fantastic. I utilised a instrument referred to as tsmuxer to convert (not transcode) from a mkv (amount 5. 1) to a m2ts (amount 4. one), which took about 8 seconds, and the resulting file performed good on the bdp-s370. This should really work on the bulk of files, having said that you may perhaps have to conclusion up re-encoding some documents which normally takes an age. Usb push support update:-------------------------i also attempted using the player with an external 500gb usb two. tough push. This labored good, but the file process has to be fat32, which windows appears not to guidance fat32 on substantial volumes, home windows 7 only makes it possible for exfat formatting, which is unsupported by the bdp-s370. The solution is to use a third bash fat32 formatter (i utilised fat32format) to structure the generate. The draw back of fat32 is that it only makes it possible for a one file sizing of 4gb, meaning that bigger video clips might have to be split into various parts. A different cool factor is that my usb sdhc memory card reader labored just like any other usb memory adhere and i was able to watch the avchd lite video clip and pictures taken on my panasonic tz7 digital camera. The images in certain seemed fantastic in 1080p, a great deal better than the tz7's 720p hdmi. One other detail i have recognized is that if you plug in a thumb generate or external really hard drive, then you are going to obtain the player produces a folder referred to as buda, which the player uses for blu-ray live facts. If you want to delete the knowledge you can do so from the gamers menu. .
Sony Blu Ray Player 370 Product. Just bought this nowadays for a relatives birthday current. Exceptionally speedy and slick but was at first dissatisfied that the bbc iplayer wasnt readily available this afternoon when i looked for it. Just acquired an update this night (31/three/2010) and now bbc iplayer functions perfectly, and of course, bbc high definition operates like a dream on iplayer. Experienced no problem streaming lovefilm videos to my television whilst i take into account myself fortunate as our sky broadband is around 13 meg pace in genuine phrases. A further thing is that it appears to be like lovefilm will go high definition with their provider on this player as you can check out high definition trailers of the latest movies streamed from the web. Youtube hd movies also get the job done listed here as opposed to the lg370 we have which just streams sd at the moment. Hope this will help you makin up your brain about this player. We bought it for the on line and catchup television facility. One last detail is the hd streaming to the player appears to be like the very same high-quality as blu ray discs although our television is 720p only. Lovefilm sd films are the exact high quality as normal dvds (or in close proximity to dvd at minimum).
Sony Bdps370. Got this sent saturday. Soon after unpacking, was surprised how significantly smaller sized this is peak intelligent as opposed with my s350. The player is now in gloss black, which i do want, apart from the inescapable dusting. Quite, really straightforward to setup and load instances are also very rapidly, even from a cold commence in all probability at least seventy five% quicker than the s350. 1 great update is the elimination of that vivid blue 24 fps led indicator and also the eject button is now on the remote. The drawer mechansim is now a normal tray loading, so the fall down flap has gone. Performance is fairly simply fantastic with no difficulties. Future firmware updates guarantee bbc iplayer among other issues. .
Product Info
- Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 43 x 3.6 cm ; 2 Kg
- Boxed-product Weight: 2.9 Kg
- Item model number: BDPS370B.CEK
- ASIN: B0038M1UTW
Conclusion of Sony BDPS370 Blu-ray Player
Use the distant that arrived with the player to bring the player out of standby, make positive there isn't a disc in it. Place the player back into standby with the sony distant. Up coming time you switch on the player it will be region free for dvd playback. Length:: 5:twenty five minsi purchased this to go with my sony kdl-40w4500 - 40' widescreen 100hz / 1080p full high definition bravia liquid crystal display tv set - with dlna technological innovation & freeview as i knew it would not only join up simply but also be flawlessly connected up on the bravia's menu's and i could put apart my key remote or use both the tv or blu-ray one particular for most capabilities. The blu-ray a person even has a handy off button for the television set as well as 1 for the blu-ray player.
Connecting up to the tv set: using a hdmi cable, i made use of the a single i had currently for my dvd player, experienced it for ages and is awesome and stable. Snakebyte mamba quality 3d audio/video hdmi cable (ps3/xbox 360) and then plugged the player into the mains. We have one plug one particular subsequent to the router upstairs and the other downstairs in the nearest plug to the blu-ray player. Used a couple distinct information now through a usb stick heading into the slot on the front of the player and all look to perform fantastic, divx data files for flicks, so much they have all been avi data files and audio data files in mp3. Update 18th january 2011: after reading a evaluate posted in this article titled sony bdps370 blu-ray player on 14 jan 2011 it appears exterior challenging drives can be connected following getting formatted fat32, it may possibly be a little bit technical for the normal person, together with me, but i'm eager to to give it a attempt, but not on my buffalo as which is my primary ipod backup, will attempt with one more a single and update when i can verify.
Photo and audio good quality: on blu-ray's, i only have a few so significantly but i can say it is incredible, i guess it does all rely what display screen you have as well and your speakers but with the sony tv it seems and seems wonderful. On the dvd's i have applied i can see a recognizable big difference in the top quality and i am absolutely sure the seem has enhanced also. Update fifth january 2011: soon after a handful of individuals asking about no matter whether the player tends to make a significant pitched wirring sound, according to other reviews it is even though taking part in blu-rays and noticeable when in tranquil times in movies and some say it will get quieter continiously and dissapears about 50 percent way as a result of the motion picture. Really like the remote and the fwd button as it just skips you fwd at 15sec jumps, which is terrific for box sets like 24 wherever the 2mins of each episode are updates from the very last, getting you to the action in just a couple clicksupdate 18th january 2011: right after making an attempt 4 types of information by using the usb stick in the usb port i can validate that for me avi and mp4 files did do the job and mov and mkv files did not function. Update 20th january 2011: anyone asked me about lan setup, so i have just copied the setup guidelines from the guide here:***connecting to the community***wired setupuse a lan cable to join to the lan (100)terminal on the player.
Usb wireless setupturn off the player, then connect the usbwireless lan adapter (uwa-br100 only out there as of january 2010) to the usb jack on the front or rear of the player. If you uncover this helpful, why not give me a thumbs up :) thank youupdate twenty first jan: just examine an announcement that the opera web browser will be accessible in the future for use with the sony bravia tv's and blu-ray gamers. I have in no way been one particular for sony's hello-fi gear as i desire the audio of other manufactures' products, but i had been on the lookout for a blu-ray player that achieved my demands for above a year now. Then the sony arrived out that played most of the disc kinds that the oppo and cambridge audio gamers (all but dvd-audio) for considerably less than half the price of people players. Chuck in iplayer guidance and i was soldi'm pretty happy i made a decision to get this player.
It masses blu-ray movies more quickly than a playstation 3, dvds a lot quicker than my previous denon 1920 dvd player. On some players multi-area blu-ray playback can be accomplished via a components hack, but that would invalidate your warranty, so for most it truly is not worthy of the danger. Nevertheless, location coding on blu-ray discs is optional and many 'region a' blu-ray discs are essentially region free. If i experienced just one niggle with the player it would be that it would not have crafted in wireless networking, and the sony wireless network usb dongle is an high-priced add-on which sells for 5 situations the likely cost of other wi-fi community usb dongles. This by itself however is not adequate for me to dock a star on an normally exemplary player.
The first matter i found was that the sony player was quite fussy and i was not able to get it to join to frenas's fuppes upnp services (inspite of hoping the dlna and playstation three profiles). Wi-fi networking update (new):---------------------------------we all know that the official sony dongle is extortionate at almost 70% as significantly as the player alone. It has two lan sockets, so it would be useful if you have say an world-wide-web related tv set as well as an world-wide-web linked blu-ray player. When actively playing sacds (super audio cds) the previous denon defeat the sony hands down, attaining larger element and clarity, when delivering a extra practical seem. So in summary whilst the sony is a great performer in movie sound, it is much less achieved as a audio player and could do with some british isles tuning or some element upgrades.
I consider that sony's up coming player up sony bdp-570 is intended to have improved audio circuitry and 7. So i guess i am expressing that if you are extra of a tunes human being than a film individual, then the sony players may perhaps not be the right in shape for you. Further more to my prior reviews, i tried using utilizing the analogue audio outputs on my samsung television in its place of individuals on the the sony player. Net video update:----------------------sony have just added 'demand five' (five's capture-up service) to the world-wide-web movie portion. This is real of several components mkv gamers and as these most new mkvs are established at 'high @ degree 3.
Usb travel aid update:-------------------------i also tried out working with the player with an external 500gb usb two. A further neat matter is that my usb sdhc memory card reader worked just like any other usb memory stick and i was in a position to view the avchd lite video clip and shots taken on my panasonic tz7 digital camera. 1 other factor i've discovered is that if you plug in a thumb travel or external difficult travel, then you can find the player results in a folder known as buda, which the player makes use of for blu-ray reside info. If you want to delete the information you can do so from the gamers menu. An additional matter is that it appears to be like lovefilm will go hd with their provider on this player as you can enjoy high definition trailers of the most recent films streamed from the net.
Hope this can help you makin up your head about this player. Just one final issue is the high definition streaming to the player appears to be like the same good quality as blu ray discs while our television is 720p only. Lovefilm sd movies are the same good quality as standard dvds (or around dvd at least). Acquired this shipped saturday. The player is now in gloss black, which i do prefer, apart from the inevitable dusting. I procured the sony sony bdps350 blu-ray (b.
)disc player 1080p complete hd just about two a long time ago. Player, but while the photograph good quality was a1, minimal points about my earlier model would have me pulling my hair out. (significantly a lot quicker on par with your ordinary dvd player)two) the similar with accessing the disc via ff or rw3) the tray closes when i press enjoy. Perfectly seeing as i've experienced a br player since sept 2008, i considered the picture excellent could not be overwhelmed. The picture is sharper (if that is possible) the colors are substantially more vibrant and the sound (i use a yamaha sound bar) is a broad advancement on the dvd variation.
Brilliant, No Better Player For the Price. The rest of the reviews pretty much sum up this blu-ray player. I usually buy panasonic or sony products, for tv's i think panasonic usually have the edge, but in dvd / blu-ray players, sony hold the crown in my opinion. It's quick, looks smart, neat and moder, the picture quality is outstanding, the ease of use, the menu interface is superb), sound is great. I cannot think of any bad points, im sure someone will be on here soon saying how it doesn't make their tea for them or that it does not display a certain tone of colour with pinpoint definition (that 99. 9% of people would never need nor notice). The extras are just bonus's, built in youtube, built in iplayer (which is far better quality than using iplayer on a pc/laptop) online video rental downloads. The list goes on. If you are looking for a very reasonably priced blu-ray player that will do everything you need plus more, i highly recommend the sony bdps-370. .
An Excellent Buy. Purchased this a couple of weeks ago. After connecting it to the internet and updating it, it works brilliantly. Set up is easy. Picture and sound quality are top notch. Start-up time is about 3 seconds, which is about 5 times faster than my old player. Feature list is great - i'm especially pleased that it plays sacds. The quality of upscaled dvds is impressive - i'll be replacing some of my favourite dvds with blu rays, but for a lot of them the quality is just fine. It is a bit of a drag that it doesn't come with wireless out of the box. I found the sony dongle a bit too expensive, so i picked up a belkin 802. 11g wireless g gaming adapter which works well and is a lot cheaper than the sony thing. So if you have an hd tv and are looking for a brilliant blu ray player at a fair price, this is the one. .
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