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I bought this machine secondhand for 35.00 without knowing the troubles she had. I went ahead and burned the Latest firmware (5.20) into a disk and as soon as I took her out of the box I updated it before use.Now she operates very smooth and with no frills and issues.I really recommend to use the 5.20 Firmware to get the best out of the player
Don't buy You have to update it constantly by disk. Had this device for one year. In shop 4 times, now warrantee is up. Now it won't work at all.
Now it sticks on the 2nd command you give it. Can't pull up the system menu.Verdict: boat anchor. This machine has always been slow the start and the BD loading time is endless. Tried a hard reset (power/stop) and firmware update, just to jog it back into reality.
This product has made me very skeptical of Sony's direction in quality, and moving forward, will think twice before buying anything else made by Sony My wife now jokes how lucky we are if we happen to watch an entire movie without going through this process.When it is funtioning normally - the picture and sound quality is what you would expect Blu-Ray to be. Then wait 3-5 minutes for the thing to boot up again, another 3-5 minutes for the disc to load, cross your fingers the thing wont lock up again when you try to select the scene you were last viewing, cross fingers again as you fast forward through the scene to the point where it locked up.all in all, takes roughly 10 minutes to get back to the point in the film where it seized. I cannot reccomend this Blu-Ray player to anyone - its an embarrasment. Even with current firmware update this product is very poor.
Once upon a time I would buy Sony electronics without a second thought. Keep in mind you might have to do this more than once during the course of a movie. The unit takes an unacceptably long time to power up, is very slow to respond to simple things like ejecting a disc, and you must cross your fingers every time you use the remote to pause, fast forward, etc in hopes that it wont hard freeze.and even then, hard freeze happens fairly regularly. This product does not live up to the usual quality standards one would expect by Sony. Its frustrating to have it lock up during a movie - you have to unplug the device power cable.
But the fact the thing is so slow and locks up so frequently offsets anything good you can say about this product.
I thought I would take a chance and buy a Blu-Ray. I can get a new one for about that and it won't be a Sony. Every Sony DVD player I have ever owned has stopped working as soon as the 1 year warranty is up. I just spent the last hour on the phone with customer support and all said and done they want $112 to ship it to Texas and fix it.
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