Sony BDP S570 Tests (Blu-ray Players)

I am a big fan of Sony products but will replace this and it will be the ONLY non-Sony product in my home theater electronics rack.

Blu-ray and DVD functions very good

Frequenty buffers during Netflix streaming. It is NOT my network as the same player does well with Amazon, and all other players in my house do well with netflix. It is HARD wired to my router. The problem is with the Netflix portion of the player

I do like this player, but am very disappointed about the way they handle Netflix streams. I realize that Sony is a studio first, so they take DRM very seriously, but I wish they wouldn't do it at the expense of usability.

Boots and loads disks quickly. Nice look. Excellent picture. Multiple streaming options

Sony requires you to route Netflix streams through Sony (via SonyStyle) to ensure DRM support. Their (Sony's) are almost always overloaded, and 99% of the time you will get a "The network is down" error when attempting to watch DRM protected content from

I spent several hours reviewing Blu-ray players before deciding on the Sony BDP-S570. Even though Sony has the BDP-S580 new line to replace this one, the former model is much better in terms of build quality and performance. One of my concerns was...

Picture (Superb!) ; Audio ; Upconverting ; Startup time

Lack of an illuminated keyboard on the remote control