Apt Pupil Maybe once a week I

Apt Pupil

Maybe once a week I have a minor glitch with Netflix that easily corrected by restarting the video. I have a wired lan with another computer and a printer that I set up myself with an older router that still does 1000 megs/sec, and I have Time Warner Cable with roadrunner turbo boost that downloads 6 megs/sec. The picture in HD and even DVD is great. You tube runs perfectly, and I like the fact that there s USB port in the back that I can load a flash drive with videos or pics and see them on a BIG screen. Blu Ray Discs look breathtaking and the upgraded DVD picture is very good as well. It s changed my viewing habits that s for certain, and I thought for all this the price was very good. I ve had this player for just about a Apt Pupil and have nothing but good things to say about it. Loading of DVD s seems fast enough for me, and the video quality of Blu-rays and the upscaling of regular DVDs is very good and the various control features via the remote control work fine particularly being able to start up where you left off if you have to stopand even shut things down in the middle of a movie. I have also had perfect performance of Netflix streaming thus far. I am also very happy that this is one of the few players that supports both Netflix and Amazon On Demand streaming. I have no issues with the fact that the unit does not have wireless internet access I actually prefer hard wiring for something Apt Pupil streaming is involved because I believe it is generally more consistentdependable than wireless in my experience. Also, the player does a fine job playing both factory and burned music CD s. I have read other reviews where people are not happy that you cannot open the disk tray with the remote control frankly I don t see that as being much of an issue. If you are needing to open the tray, then you are probably about to insert or remove a disk from it so you have to be standing right next to the player anyway in order to do that so what s the big deal? Plus, as in my case, if you have an entertainment center with glass doors, the last thing I would want to have happen is to accidentally hit an eject button on the remote and have the drawer open and potentially break the glass in the door so I am perfectly happy with only being able to open the tray from the front of the unit. All and all, this unit meets all of my needs very well. works like it, and it does Apt Pupil they claim. What i had to find out the hard way is it has no browser. it has a net flix channel and more but you cannot type in a web address and go anywhere. I also had to register it with sony before it would allow me to register with netflix. i dont know why. To upgrade the firmware requires a Windows computer unless the player is connected to the Internet. If this kind of thing matters to you or if you re Sony read on. Once cabled up, we tried to watch a Neflix movie. The screen said Netflix wouldn t work because the software was out of date. Further checking showed the machine, bought 12 March 2010, was at version 0 We needed a firmware update. Directions to correct that were neither on the screen nor in the manual, but a separate sheet of pink paper. It directed us to. On selecting our model, we had to choose an operating system. In true Henry Ford style, we could have any color we wanted, as long as it was Windows. Re-reading the support page now, it seems the player, if connected to the Internet, can update itself via the system menu. If so, it was not obvious to us at the time. The on-screen menus took us to a dead end, rather than to the firmware update feature, if indeed there was one. The instructions on the esupport site emphasize the operating systems supported. The other option having the player update itself is called network update. In fact there are three ways to update the player: directly, by creating a CD/DVD, or by having Sony mail an update disc.