Sony BDP-S3700 Blu-Ray Disc Player with Built-in Wi-Fi + Remote Control + Xtech High-Speed HDMI Cable w/Ethernet + HeroFiber Gentle Cleaning Cloth

I purchased this Blu Ray player in July in hopes of replacing one that had stopped working. Unfortunately, I let the return window slip by. Not the cheapest Blu Ray player sold on Amazon, not the most expensive by a long shot. The Sony BDP-S3700 player offered me hope - offering features I liked at a price point I could afford. The packaging is nice, the player small, compact, and included the HDMI cable. The player was easy to setup/install and the apps are easy to use with the remote and relatively intuitive, but this player does not deliver. The disks rattle and roars while being spun to the point you can hear it from across the room, and streaming from the Amazon Prime app over my 5G WiFi and 60Mb Internet subscription, yielded a very disappointing experience. The video stopped, and started, stopped and started so many times that we finally stopped, fired the video up on my childs Wii-U and watched the balance of the movie with no interruption. Shorter video experiences were ok, but movie length streams from Amazon all sucked. Very disappointed with Sony.

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This player was not the easiest to set up due to poorly written instructions in small print. However, it was finally accomplished and put into use in July of 2018. The unit is so small and light weight that pushing the buttons manually is annoying because it causes the unit to scoot around on the shelf. The remote seems to be more useful for this purpose. However, the remote has tiny buttons that are difficult to find easily. It was used mostly for access to Netflix and Amazon Prime viewing, occasional bluray disc or cd listening. It mostly worked well for the above. But there would be occasional miscommunication with the wifi connection causing us to go thru a lengthy resetting process. We also had some difficulty turning the unit off without having to unplug it, which is difficult because it must be unplugged from the socket not the back of the unit. Today in trying to play a rental bluray disk this unit refused to recognize its communication with the TV. No amount of changing cables, resetting TV, Wifi modem or the Sony player would solve the issue. We continued to recieve "no connection recognized" message. Trying with an older disk player showed no problems with the TV, Wifi modem or the cables in use. Therefore, this Sony Bluray Player was determine DEAD. Not happy with only 8 months of use. Dont buy this thing.

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The bells and whistles on a BluRay player are hard to overstate. I liked this one, but the lower right quadrant of the screen flickered.

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