Kelvin Ma
This is a nice little unit for playing Bluray and DVD. There are some minor things I did not care for the system; but overall, it is a great unit. It also seems to be able to play most video files off the USB or DVD. Some of the things I didnt care for it this system are the remote and how the system fast forward and rewind. The main control buttons for navigation seems to have the center enter button raised a slight bit higher than the surrounding arrow buttons. This is a problem because as I move my fingers around the arrow buttons for navigation, I would inadvertently hit the enter button by mistake. The other thing I also didnt care for is when I press fast forward or rewind while watching the video, the display does not provide the time line position of where I am relative to the entire video. These are really minor issues as I could simply use my TVs remote as a substitute for using this units remote navigation. As for the fast forward and rewind display issue, it can be resolved through future software update, although it did surprise me how these issues could have arisen in the first place with a company like Sony with years of experience developing electronic entertainment systems. I never had any issues with any of their remotes for other systems in the past. These mistakes they made are completely rookie mistakes that a company like Sony never should have made. One final thought on this purchase is that this is a certified refurbished unit. While I was playing a video file, the entire system locked up to a point where I could not even power the system off with the power button. I ended up having to unplug the system from the power outlet; but after powering the system back up, everything seems to work fine and it even play through the entire same video file I had prior to the lock-up. So far this only happened once. But I dont know if this is just a random glitch or a sign of something worst to come. Only time will tell. So far, I am very happy with the purchase considering the price; but a bit concern with the reliability for the long term with a refurbished unit.