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- 4K Upscaling provides up to four times higher resolution than Full HD 1080p
- 3D Blu-ray Disc Full HD 1080p playback
- Built-in Wi-Fi
- Skype capability with optional camera
- Power Requirements (frequency) : 60Hz ; Power Requirements (voltage) : 120V ; Power Consumption (in Operation): 22W
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3D Blu-ray Disc Full HD 1080p playback. Built-in Wi-Fi. Sony Entertainment Network: Netflix, YouTube, Pandora, Hulu Plus& more . Skype capability with optional camera. Super Bit Mapping and 4K upscaling for amazing picture quality
Brand: Sony
Media Type: Blu-Ray Disc, CD, DVD
Special Feature: 3D Streaming, 4K Upscaling
Resolution: 3840 x 2160 pixels
Connector Type: HDMI
Connectivity Technology: wi-fi_built_in
Model Name: BDPS790
Color: Black
Item Weight: 4.4 pounds
Audio Output Mode: Surround
Media Type: Blu-Ray Disc, CD, DVD
Other Special Features of the Product: 3D Streaming, 4K Upscaling
Resolution: 3840 x 2160 pixels
Connector Type: HDMI
Connectivity Technology: wi-fi_built_in
Audio Output Mode: Surround
Power Consumption: 21 watts
Supported Audio Format: Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD master audio
Surround Sound Channel Configuration: 5.1
Total Number of HDMI Ports: 2
Video Encoding: H.264
Compatible Devices: Projector, Smartphone, Speaker, Tablet, Television
Video Output Resolution: 3840 x 2160 pixels (4K)
Controller Type: Remote Control
File Format: JPEG, MP3, MP4
Item Weight: 4.4 pounds
Item Dimensions L x W x H: 16.93"L x 7.6"W x 1.65"H
Brand: Sony
Model Name: BDPS790
Built-In Media: Sony 4K Upscaling 3D Streaming Blu-Ray Disc Player (Black), Remote Control, 2 x AAA Batteries, Customer Registration Card, Instruction Manual, Warranty Card
Unit Count: 1 Count
UPC: 027242845336 845251044812
Number of Items: 1
Manufacturer: Sony
Model Number: BDPS790
Mfr Part Number: BDPS790
Color: Black
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I bought this player a few weeks back, having also tried players by Panasonic (their 220 and top of the line 500) as well as Philips, and the quite highly regarded SONY 1030 network ready receiver. And, in my opinion, this one beats them all. (But if you want to save a few bucks and don't need 3D, the Sony 590 and 390 are very similar - I just installed a SONY 390 in a different location, and most of what I say here also applies to it) 1) Does very well with Blu-Ray, reasonable load times (although the Panasonic 500 was a bit faster I think). Compared to the lower level SONY Blu-Ray players, this one also supports 3D, which I haven't tested, and has a dual core CPU, which makes operation somewhat snappier. 2) Really nice GUI. Simple and intuitive to use, very tasteful, understated but elegant appearance. Nicer than the Panasonic GUI, and generations beyond that of the low-to-mid SONY network ready receivers like their 1030 that I tried a few days back. 3) Perhaps even more important than 1, at least for me: Great network features for playing both external content - does really well with Amazon Prime which I have - as well as stuff on your network. Allows "Play to" with audio files from Windows Media Player, including playlists etc, as well as mobile phones (I use a Nokia running Symbian and their DLNA streamer, but I suppose it works just as well with Android and IOS). Allows pause, skip, positioning in file (expected, but I mention it because the SONY 1030 network player does NOT support this, unbelievably). Unfortunately, it does NOT support volume control when remotely playing music! This is a disappointment I have, and I would appreciate any comments on mid-price Blu-Ray players that do support this feature. I have a whole-house AV system with four sets of surround-sound speakers in four rooms, for a total of 20 speakers driven from one location. I now use the SONY 790 as my audio hub, and using DLNA, I can easily get sound everywhere. And I know what I am playing, remote control the player from Windows or smartphone ... all this is way better than with any remote, but NOT having volume control is a really unfortunate limitation) 4) And now, perhaps, the most important feature: It plays ANY VIDEO FORMAT I HAVE - including mp4, mkv, avi (DivX and Xvid), vob, ... But as various other reviews point out, it does NOT do that out of the box, but ONLY with the SONY Homestream server software. So now about the Hidden Treasure, SONY Homestream. The problem with the many formats out there is that there are license fees required to provide their support. Especially regarding avi, DivX, Xvid, since these formats are on their way out, mostly because they don't work efficiently for HD content and lead to files that are larger then necessary, it seems the newer makers try to save a few bucks by not supporting them. Interesting because a (rather nice) DVD player from Philips that I have supports avi streaming but not mp4, so there it's the other way around. But now to the solution. There is some DLNA server software from SONY that specifically works with their Blu-Ray players and supports all these formats. It's called SONY Homestream, you can google it and will find a site in the UK (? why not US?) where you download it. It runs in the background, totally unobtrusively for your server PC, and shows up as one more media server on the Blu-Ray player. Well, and if I use it, all my avi's that I tried played fine, even those that don't play otherwise. The trick is that Homestream knows all details what formats the SONY devices support, and those that aren't supported are transcoded on the fly whenever needed into something that works. First I was a little concerned whether this is an extra hassle, but it is nearly totally transparent (except it eats some CPU cycles on your server while it's doing live transcoding of non-directly supported types), and it leaves all your old movies in their original format, with no pain or degradation due to conversion on your end. I suppose the trick is that by doing that, the decoding of DIVX actually happens on your machine, for which they don't need a license because DIVX provides free PC players, and SONY can save their few bucks. Overall it works great, and from what I hear it covers way more movie formats then just DIVX. For the techies, the software is actually based on the more general server software Serviio, but the Homestream tool ties it all up in a nicer looking interface, and it provides all the potentially rather technical configurations in Serviio automatically and custom tailored for the SONY Blu-Ray players. Overall, I am very happy with this solution! I just wish SONY were more clear about its existence, it took me forever to find it. Some more details about the installation: 1) When running for the first time, you have to open the "Homestream" server software and find your player among the various IP addresses listed. If it's not immediately clear which one it is, you can go into the setup - network part of the SONY and find its IP under status. Then in Homestream, under the main "status" tab, for this IP address you click profile and select "Sony Bravia" instead of the default generic profile (there is also an entry for "Sony Blu-Ray", but the Bravia version works better somehow - would be good if SONY pointed that out) 2) You also have to tell it where to find Music, Videos and Photos in "Library". The more specific the paths the less searching, but if need be just put the drive letter there. The other tabs also have useful things to tweak, including what data will be shown under "info" when playing file types. 3) After installation and setup, it takes a few minutes to an hour or so for Homestream to index your hard disk to identify which files it needs to transcode if requested. During that time, selecting the Homestream server on the Blu-Ray player does not show all the files or even directories in which they are. Altogether, the package of player/software so far has been able to play ANY video container and encoder that I have thrown at it - just great!
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Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2012 by Leo
I received my player a short time ago, and so far I'm very pleased with the device. Setup wasn't totally painless, however. I currently own four optical-disk-playing devices (not counting computer drives). I have a five-disk Sony DVD carousel, a Samsung BD player(with wireless but with minimal features, mainly Pandora, Netflix, Blockbuster, and some news headlines), a slightly older Sony BD player(BDP-570) which has, up until now, been the main unit in my entertainment center, and now this. I'm reasonably pleased that the user interface is essentially unaltered from my earlier Sony BD device. The interface is still very easy to use, and very intuitive. It DOES, however, have the annoyance of lacking some configurability (I'd sure like to be able to remove the "Michael Jackson channel" from my list of video channels, for example, as I'll never... EVER... watch that.) It does have a few new features accessed from that media-resources screen... the Opera web browser, a pretty decent Skype client, and a few other items. But if you've owned a Sony BD device before, the UI will be totally familiar to you, as will most of the main configuration options. The remote control is also very similar to the older Sony remote, except that some of the special functions are now in a secondary, concentric ring around the nav-select pad... which is actually a BAD thing as far as I'm concerned, as I have found myself frequently accidentally hitting the outside ring when I'm trying to hit the inside ring, or vice-versa. Fortunately for me, I seldom use the provided remote, instead using my Logitech Harmony programmable remote... so this is not really an issue. But if you plan to use this remote as your primary control, I suspect you'll experience the same thing from time to time. Sony could have done better in this regard. Picture quality is gorgeous, of course, as played on my 240hz Samsung 3D LEDTV. I wasn't sure that there would be any visible difference, but the image quality is notable improved, especially on upscaled DVD images. It seems that the two fast processor cores in the machine are getting a pretty robust workout... they're not being wasted! 3D is impressive, too... though I suspect this is more related to the TV than the player. (Samsung's 3D TVs are the best on the market IMHO, right now, though Sony's BD players are the best, I think!) That said, the machine never so much as "hesitates a frame" in even the most action-packed 3D scenes... which is something you'll occasionally note on lower-end 3D units, as the data streaming through them can briefly get backed up in fast, moving scenes, being rendered twice-over for each frame (once per eye, in other words). I do not have access to a 4K display, so I have no idea if that's good or not. I suspect that 4K will tax the resources of this machine... then again, so few people have 4K displays right now, it's not worth quibbling about. Now... if you buy one of the first units (ie, the current batch, I think!), you'll likely have a few issues when you first obtain it. The machine is designed to be network-connected, and wants to be connected. But, at least in my case, and in the case of many others, the network functionality seems somewhat hobbled under the "release firmware." You need to update the machine's firmware... after which, my machine has worked perfectly. But the device, by default, will try to "web update" itself anytime connected. Which means that you need to manually update the device, using either downloaded media (from the vendor's website), media obtained from the vendor (for a fee), or at the very least, a hard-wired network connection, in order to do your first update. Prior to the first update, I had significant difficulties maintaining a connection... which could lead to an improper update, and a "bricked" device. Lots of other folks had the same problem. Post-update, my device works perfectly. Also pre-update, I couldn't manually enter my wireless networking info (the UI was there, but it didn't allow me to finish my setup). Post-update, that's no longer an issue. The receiver in this device isn't tremendously powerful, and a better antenna/receiver set would be a major boon. It's basically on-par with devices built into laptops and so forth, and (post-update) works about the same as any of those. But it would be well-served by having some improved reception, since it's going to be tasked with streaming a lot of data. The reception is better than you'll get with a Roku or the like, but not as good as it ought to be for the price, and if you're not near your router, you may have some connectivity issues from time to time. It does seem to be on-par with my prior Sony device, or the built-in wireless in any of my TVs. That's about all I can say about it right now. It's a terrific device, plays back flawlessly for any media I have access to, and just generally is the best device of its type out there right now, as far as I'm concerned. Just be careful about updating the device when you first receive it. I recommend downloading the update files and installing them without the network at all (see Sony's support site). After doing this, my network has worked flawlessly so far, and the device is separated from my router by a floor and four walls, and about fifty feet... and we have power lines nearby. I'm very satisfied with the device so far. If that ever changes, I'll be sure to update this review, though. ************* Edit: Well, I've had this for a while now and have fully put it through its paces. There's one thing I thought I ought to mention. This has the best DLNA interface I've yet to see on a consumer device. It's easy to use, functions well... but there's a problem. It only recognizes a tiny subset of my media, including very, very few of my video files... very few. And while it will recognize any MP3 file, most of my media is in WMA format, which the player won't recognize, either. So, the DLNA functionality is pretty hobbled, as far as I'm concerned. I'd love to hear the experiences of others in this regard. No support for windows media audio and video? No support for MKV containers? These are things that really should be present in ANY contemporary media-streaming solution. Hopefully Sony can implement something (it's not a hardware issue so it MUST be a legal-rights issue!) to manage file types better in the future. Right now, the only device I have which can make full use of my media server, with the exception of actual PCs, is my little Archos portable media player. I sure wish my Sony BD player had support for as many file times as my Archos does... ************* Another edit: I've now had two more firmware updates since posting the above. And yesterday, I decided to play around with the network DLNA mode again. I don't know which firmware fixed this, but as of yesterday, I can now play WMA audio files with no problems. I still can't see any of my WMV, DIVX, MOV, or other video files. The only things I CAN see, really, are the transport stream files taken directly from DVD rips, and I only have a handful of those, created off of disks I own, so that I could put those files onto my portable player (Archos 5IT, 500GB). So... it does seem that Sony is "fixing" the DLNA issues, but a step at a time. I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of my stuff... video files, etc... someday soon.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2012 by Cary L. Brown
Let me start this review by saying I'm VERY picky when it comes to video quality. Almost impossible to please I suppose. My last Blu-Ray player was the Samsung BD-P2500. It has a special HQV video chip in it that made ordinary DVD's look spotless and almost 3 dimensional. Unfortunately, it's slow and has almost no features that newer players have. I have tried other players but have never found anything that could compete with the video quality of the Samsung until the S-790. Now I know there are players out there that would look better but the price goes up substantially. Probably most blu-ray players playing Blu-Ray's will look pretty good. A lot of what I watch are TV series, and most of them are simply only available on DVD. This player will make those DVD's look just a tick or so below the quality of the same show on broadcast HDTV. A lot of blu-ray players will show all kinds of graininess or artifacts, but this player really cleans them up. Blu-Rays really look spectacular. The USB ports are pretty handy (it has 2), and I had no trouble playing HD content off of them. I did have issues getting subtitles to play off those ports- they wouldn't no matter what I tried. This is a big disappointment, as a lot of movies have brief periods where a foreign language is spoken and subtitles are used. If it's on an original disk in the drive though, you're ok. The wifi is rather poor also. I could not stream a blu-ray off of my router without it getting very choppy, and it wasn't my routers fault. I bought a wireless bridge and plugged it into that LAN port of the player, and THEN it was able to stream HD flawlessly. With my wireless bridge, Netflix and VUDU looked incredible. As a matter of fact, Netflix looked even better than my Samsung (which could do Netflix). I have never seen Netflix look that good actually. The remote I thought was pretty clumsy, and I kept hitting wrong buttons on it. I added it to my Harmony remote, and it is much better. If you use a universal remote like I do, know that it does have discrete on & off commands which is nice. Anice feature this player has is a quick startup mode. It seems to remember the disks you put in it, and you don't have to sit through FBI warnings every time you turn it on. This is really nice and takes the hassel out of disks with multiple episodes on it. Despite it's flaws with mediocre wifi and subtitle issues, I still rate this player very high due to the great picture quality, and presence of Netflix and other apps. Vudu HD and Amazon instant video both looked very good also. If it helps, my download speed is around 13mb/sec which deternines the video quality for Netflix, Amazon and Vudu, so if you have slow download speeds, you streaming video quality won't be as high.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2012 by Chocolate Addict
This player does almost everything right. For its primary function - blu-ray and dvd playback - it works very well. The built in wireless is nearly perfect at getting and holding a signal capable of 13-15 mb/sec, and that is good enough for AVCHD and bluray. The network features are very good - it has every service you can imagine and then some. Its weak feature is DLNA support. I use Serviio on a windows server as my primary DLNA provider. It has profiles for this player as well as every Sony TV in the last 4 years. Because of Sony's brain-damaged decision to cripple MKV via network stream, Serviio remuxes the MKV's contents into a transport stream, and it plays just fine. The problem with this is that I have to change profiles in Serviio from the BDP-Sx90 to various TV models to get certain files to play. Now I know that in the purest sense, this isn't a problem with the blu-ray player, but with Serviio's profiles. The point I make is that none of this transcoding/remuxing would be necessary if Sony didn't intentionally cripple the device by disabling streaming support of MKV. In a strange twist, almost as a sort of mockery, Sony supports MKV playback via USB. So I can hook up a USB hard drive with the MKVs on it, and they will play just fine where the very same files will not play via native DLNA. Another big annoyance (for me) is the missing features of music playback: a) Although playlists are supported, you can't create them via the blu-ray player. b) You cannot select multiple folders for playback. c) You cannot shuffle or repeat. This is the real killer for me. I initially hoped that firmware updates would iron out some of these issues, but I've had two firmware updates since I bought this player, and both actually took features away. MKV playback has gotten more convoluted after each update, so now I have to switch profiles often enough that is not worth the hassle. My previous Samsung and the Panny before that had no issues here. If I had room, I would have just kept the Samsung and used it in addition, or maybe even return the Sony. EDIT 1: -- I gave it 3 stars because it does some things right. ++ I've had this thing for 5 months now and have pretty much come to consider it a waste. I have more and more cases where AVCHD files cause the player to lock up and require unplugging. No firmware updates since May. So 2 stars. IF it would play network files, and IF it had usable playlist features, it would be an easy 5 stars. Other people may not care about these features, and for those people, this may be a very good buy. I'm really throwing caution to the wind here because I've experienced the wrath of the sony fanboys a few times in the past - but this item follows the sony pattern of having a nearly perfect product with some seemingly insignificant design flaws that eventually cause enough frustration that I can't wait to save up, sell it, and move on to something that works more within my expectation. I will put this thing on the marketplace pretty soon. EDIT 2: After switching my Serviio profile for this player to Sony Bravia 2011, I can play every format and the player no longer locks up. It is somewhat of a disappointment that virtually everything has to be transcoded, but it still works well enough that I am changing the rating to 4 stars. I've accepted the playlist/shuffle limitation - not really happy about it but there are other ways to stream music.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2013 by Clay Porter
I use the player mostly for streaming movies from Netflix and Amazon using the built-in WiFi, and also a little for DVDs and Blu Rays. It works well for all four of those purposes. I'm happy with the usability and speed of response to commands from the remote. It seems to stream a little more reliably than the old PlayStation 3 (may she rest in peace) which sometimes had a little trouble with the variability of my internet connection speed. Before ordering this BDP-S790, I had ordered the Panasonic DMP-BBT01. I found the Panasonic unacceptable and returned it to Amazon (see my review on that product). The Sony BDP-S790 is a far better product from a user interface perspective, and seems much more reliable at streaming, too. One problem I encountered was some initial difficulty with the network connectivity of the BDP-S790. It reported success at WiFi connection but failure regarding internet connection. That report turned out to be not quite true -- I did have internet connectivity and could stream, etc., even though it reported failure, but it was flaky and would drop off the network in the middle of streaming. I also could not perform software updates over the network, and the error message had to do with failure to contact the DHCP server (in my Cisco Linksys E4200). So I quit using DHCP, assigned a static IP address to the device, and haven't had a bit of trouble since. (By the way, I've not had any other WiFi device in my household, out of a dozen or more, that failed on DHCP with my router.) Anyway, it now reports success on internet connectivity, and I can stream uninterrupted movies, and I can perform firmware updates over the network. It was a relief to have solved that problem so I could keep this player, and not have to return it and make a third attempt at selecting a decent player.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2013 by R Behrens
What is it with these lame manufacturers these days? My router supports the AC band which is non-existent yet in today's devices. On top of that, you have manufacturers such as Sony who doe not even provide support for the 5GHZ band in their top of the line Blu-ray player in 2013?!?! What are they thinking?!?! This is like a 1990s player. This player is supposed to stream yet they cripple it with only the 2.4GHZ Wi-Fi band which is highly susceptible to Bluetooth, wireless phone and neighborhood interference due to the densely used 2.4GHZ band. That is one good thing I can say about the high end Samsung; at least they were intelligent enough to provide both bands in their player. It suffers from a multitude of its own issues though. Namely, a lame remote and remote app, and an extremely minimalistic approach to the player's settings. Additionally, the Samsung BD-F7500 will not play any Blu-Ray discs except for the originals and that is even with BD Live turned off and purged of data. I make iso copies for the grand-kids so the originals do not get damaged. This Sony plays them just fine but the Samsung freezes throughout and will not output audio. 2 Nov 13 Update: Sony obviously does not have a flipping clue what they are doing. Every time they send out an update my player goes haywire. Currently, it is making me login to Netflix over and over again. Their remote phone app is incompatible with being able to enter your logins and passwords so it is also useless. Also, the player regularly freezes and locks up. I have a 30mbps broadband service with absolute top of the line modem, router. The player constantly buffers. Steer clear of Sony. They are releasing junk and are not supporting it. I just tried to get tech support through my Sony Essentials access and after thoroughly describing all of the player's shortcomings I got a message saying that they were sorry but they were not accepting technical assistance messages at this time. It was a complete and utter waste of my time. Sony sucks, period. They took $250 for this piece of junk and now I am basically stuck with a paper weight since it is useless for anything else. Update 14 Dec 13: Player completely failed after a firmware update at only two months old. The player completely locked up and continuously blinked OFF on the display. It took 2 weeks and multiple calls to get Sony to send me the return shipping documents; then, took over about 5 weeks to get my replacement. I had to buy a Roku in the meantime just to watch TV. Sony is a joke. It's obvious after multiple conversations with their numerous tiers of customer service/tech support that they do not have a clue what they are doing. My advice, stay away from their goods unless you enjoy misery. Update 22 Mar 14: Although I have been afraid to update the firmware of the replacement unit, I can say that it has performed admirably. It has played nearly everything I have thrown at it, and Sony Homestream is a jewel of a home media server. Also, I absolutely love the remote control compared to the Samsung or Roku. Also, I might add that my Roku will not connect to a media server which is very lame for a $100+ device. Update 8 Apr 14: I have now found out that this player will not play .MKV files even though that manual says that it will. Also, the Sony Homestream server is useless since it constantly stutters (I only use extremely high end router, modem, etc.), and it intermittently does not update new folders/files. Additionally, it will not play most of my files on my new Western Digital Cloud media server or any other server for that matter. The best I have found is Mezzmo but it still cannot correct any of Sony's shortcomings. All of my other devices stream all of my media from all of my servers to include my Samsung Galaxy Note 2 cell phone. Maybe Sony needs to take some lessons from Samsung. Stay away from this player. It pretty much does nothing the specs say that it does. Oh, and it will not play any copied discs either. A cinavia banner appears on the screen which disables the audio during the movie. Goodbye Sony. This player will more than likely be in the trash soon, and it will be my LAST! Sony product. I stopped purchasing Sony products years ago for these very same reasons. I should have known better.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2013 by AJ
This is probably a fine blu-ray player but that was only half the reason I purchased this as a gift. The other reason was its built in WiFi and DLNA compatibility. The Sony site shows this player as capable of playing a variety of formats such as .mp4 and .mkv. What they don't tell you is that it will not stream these formats from a DLNA server. It will only play those formats from a USB drive. This is on page 44 of the manual but nowhere in the detailed product description, even on the Sony site. The only video formats supported from your home media server are MPEG-2 (no higher than 480P) and Xvid .avi (not even DivX?). This makes it fairly useless for home media use. Since this player supports Netflix and most other streaming video providers which use MP4 this would seem to be a marketing decision. Equivalent players from Samsung and LG do not have this issue. The unit is being returned for one of those. The low rating is only for the misleading product description which caused several days of grief for the recipient of this gift. It may perform it's other functions quite well. However, I question the point for 4K upscaling other than increasing the price. I may be mistaken but I have not seen a 4K TV that doesn't upscale making the addition in any other device moot.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2013 by TV's Frank
I bought this at roughly the same time as the Samsung equivalent, the BD-F7500 4K Upscaling 3D Wi-Fi Blu-ray Disc Player . The day after, a firmware update was installed and it has been reliable ever since. As the price of that Samsung has been volatile, but is currently selling at close to M.S.R.P , I assume the Gremlins met an appropriate fate. I retract the unreliable portion, but have not figured out how to bypass Amazon's carved in stone review rule. I hope this Sony Player will be supported by firmware installations for years to come. It supports Super Audio CDs as well as all functional Blu Ray and regular DVDs. It has a good buffer and can ride most waves in your high speed Broad Band ISP. I have seen it say that it is receiving HD Streams as high as 48 MB/S and as low as 0.3 MB/S. The ISP never lowers the price even to reflect their service. However if the low bit rate last more than a minute in HD, this Sony bookmarks where you are and politely brings up the Menu at Play a DVD! Nice touch considering it is an Excellent Blu Ray player. If there was one item to be added, it would be voice control. In general, Remote Controls for DVDs has shrunk in Size in direct proportion to their start up times. I tend to watch movies in low light, and even though Sony makes excellent L.E.D.s they are not to be found on this remote. I guess I could download an App, but speech is more civilized in First Class.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2014 by BMW Adventure-Aprilia Scooter