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Customer Reviews for Sony 3D Wi-Fi Ready Blu-ray Player

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Sony 3D Wi-Fi Ready Blu-ray Player

Model: BDPS480
SKU: 1666033
UPC: 027242815407
This Blu-ray player features 3D playback for a high-quality dimension of entertainment and is Internet connectable for access to Instant Content. To build a complete 3D home theater system, you'll need to purchase a 3D TV, active shutter 3D glasses designed for the TV and high-speed HDMI cable. We also recommend an A/V receiver that is compatible with 3D products. Smart Blu-ray Player Get a world of instant entertainment with this smart Blu-ray player. Connect to the Internet and stream movies, listen to music and access a wide variety of other content on your HDTV. Learn more about smart products.CinemaNow Netflix Pandora YouTube Twitter
Average Customer Rating:
3.797 out of 5
3.8
 out of 
5
(59 Reviews) 59
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Rating Snapshot 59 reviews
5 stars
27
4 stars
14
3 stars
6
2 stars
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1 star
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73% of customers would recommend this product to a friend 
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43 out of 59
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Customer Reviews for Sony 3D Wi-Fi Ready Blu-ray Player
Review 1 for Sony 3D Wi-Fi Ready Blu-ray Player

Very good wifi blu-ray...great to have widgets

Customer Rating
5.0 out of 5
5.0
Posted by: chogan
from ontario, CA
on 04/26/2012
Value for Price
5.0 out of 5
5.0
Picture Quality
5.0 out of 5
5.0
Ease of Use
4.0 out of 5
4.0
Ease of Set Up
5.0 out of 5
5.0
What's great about it: The widgets...Netflix, I cant get enough of it...also the picture quality of the Blu-ray, so awesome.
What's not so great: Nothing at the present time.
I got this on a great deal from bestbuy...this was my first blu-ray player, I never knew how great your picture quality will improve with blu-ray....Why I waited so long is a mystery to me.
This product has... Great DVD upconversion, Good connection options, Easy to use controls
About me... Parent with movie watching kids, Avid movie watcher, Love to stream movies
I would recommend this to a friend!
0points
0out of 0found this review helpful.
Review 2 for Sony 3D Wi-Fi Ready Blu-ray Player

Great for the money

Customer Rating
4.0 out of 5
4.0
Posted by: Richsound
from MA
on 04/02/2012
Value for Price
4.0 out of 5
4.0
Picture Quality
4.0 out of 5
4.0
Ease of Use
4.0 out of 5
4.0
Ease of Set Up
4.0 out of 5
4.0
Great 3D Blueray slim so it doesn't take up a lot of space. Load time is ok not slow. Better than the Samsung I had.
This product has... Great DVD upconversion, Slow load time, Useful Internet-enabled features, Good connection options, Easy to use controls
I would recommend this to a friend!
0points
0out of 0found this review helpful.
Review 3 for Sony 3D Wi-Fi Ready Blu-ray Player

Great purchase for price and quality

Customer Rating
5.0 out of 5
5.0
Posted by: OTCMike
from Miami
on 03/14/2012
I will recommend this product to my friends, specially if they like to watch blue rays DVD and neflix
This product has... Useful Internet-enabled features, Easy to use controls
About me... Budget Conscious, Avid movie watcher
I would recommend this to a friend!
+1point
1out of 1found this review helpful.
Review 4 for Sony 3D Wi-Fi Ready Blu-ray Player

Great Player, upconvert is extremely good.

Customer Rating
5.0 out of 5
5.0
Posted by: DrLove1
from Columbus,OH
on 03/08/2012
Value for Price
5.0 out of 5
5.0
Picture Quality
5.0 out of 5
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0 out of 5
5.0
Ease of Set Up
5.0 out of 5
5.0
What's great about it: Picture quality.
What's not so great: Nothing so far.
Very easy to use and easy to set up. Great value for the price.
This product has... Great DVD upconversion, Good connection options, Easy to use controls
About me... Avid movie watcher
I would recommend this to a friend!
+1point
1out of 1found this review helpful.
Review 5 for Sony 3D Wi-Fi Ready Blu-ray Player

average blu ray

Customer Rating
3.0 out of 5
3.0
Posted by: unknownbuyer
from 323
on 03/08/2012
Value for Price
4.0 out of 5
4.0
Picture Quality
4.0 out of 5
4.0
Ease of Use
2.0 out of 5
2.0
Ease of Set Up
3.0 out of 5
3.0
What's great about it: blu ray wifi and apps
What's not so great: slow response time
bought this wifi blu ray and was not satasfied at all.
For me it was just too slow to repond and the text input was a hassle.
the picture was great and apps were good tho. It just lagged. I just spent a few more bucks and got the sony google tv =)
This product has... Slow load time, Useful Internet-enabled features, Good connection options
About me... Budget Conscious, Casual movie watcher, Avid movie watcher, Love to stream movies
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
0points
0out of 0found this review helpful.
Review 6 for Sony 3D Wi-Fi Ready Blu-ray Player

works as it should.

Customer Rating
4.0 out of 5
4.0
Posted by: dilligafty
from Medford, MA
on 03/05/2012
Blue ray is terrific. Love that I can stream online video content. Just wish I didn't have to shell out the additional $70ish to give it the w-fi access. (It's wi-fi ready, but doesn't have the component built in to pick up the signal.) Otherwise I would have rated 5 stars.
This product has... Useful Internet-enabled features, Easy to use controls
About me... Avid movie watcher, Love to stream movies
I would recommend this to a friend!
-1point
0out of 1found this review helpful.
Review 7 for Sony 3D Wi-Fi Ready Blu-ray Player

Good bang for buck

Customer Rating
4.0 out of 5
4.0
Posted by: JBest1414
on 02/15/2012
Value for Price
4.0 out of 5
4.0
Picture Quality
4.0 out of 5
4.0
Ease of Use
3.0 out of 5
3.0
Ease of Set Up
3.0 out of 5
3.0
The player overall is great for the price. I wasn't able to get the iphone remote control app feature to work, but otherwise it was a pretty simple setup.
This product has... Useful Internet-enabled features, Good connection options
About me... Avid movie watcher
I would recommend this to a friend!
0points
0out of 0found this review helpful.
Review 8 for Sony 3D Wi-Fi Ready Blu-ray Player

So so... failed within a day or so.

Customer Rating
2.0 out of 5
2.0
Posted by: FriscoBBFan
from Frisco, TX
on 02/09/2012
Value for Price
2.0 out of 5
2.0
Picture Quality
3.0 out of 5
3.0
Ease of Use
3.0 out of 5
3.0
Ease of Set Up
3.0 out of 5
3.0
What's great about it: Its a Sony....
What's not so great: Stopped working after about a day... Internet function is VERY slow.
OK DVD player. Slow on internet connection, especially trying to stream Netflix. Would stop streaming or fail to launch Netflix several times. Stopped reading DVDs after a day or so. Returned it for a refund...
This product has... Slow load time, Easy to use controls
About me... Budget Conscious, Avid movie watcher, Love to stream movies
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
0points
0out of 0found this review helpful.
Review 9 for Sony 3D Wi-Fi Ready Blu-ray Player

Failed completely after 6 months!

Customer Rating
1.0 out of 5
1.0
Posted by: Anonymous
from Salem, OR
on 02/03/2012
Value for Price
1.0 out of 5
1.0
Picture Quality
1.0 out of 5
1.0
Ease of Use
1.0 out of 5
1.0
Ease of Set Up
1.0 out of 5
1.0
What's great about it: nothing
What's not so great: everything
Very angry with this device. it played Tron once and then I could not play rented Blu-Rays from any source. Called the help line and they told me it was the discs. 5 discs from 2 sources, hard to believe all of the discs were bad.Now it has decided not to play standard dvds, even some from my collection that played a month ago. I am certain that the firmware upgrades are the cause. I can't say enough how disappointed I am with this player!
This product has... does not work
About me... Avid movie watcher
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
-2points
0out of 2found this review helpful.
Review 10 for Sony 3D Wi-Fi Ready Blu-ray Player

Great easy to use DVD Player

Customer Rating
5.0 out of 5
5.0
Posted by: Amway1
from Omaha, NE
on 01/28/2012
Value for Price
5.0 out of 5
5.0
Picture Quality
5.0 out of 5
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0 out of 5
5.0
Ease of Set Up
5.0 out of 5
5.0
What's great about it: Easy set up, great price!
What's not so great: Nothing
Love the DVD player. I got a great buy on it and love the internet connection. I use it all the time for Netflix and it does very well.
Great Buy!
This product has... Great DVD upconversion, Useful Internet-enabled features, Good connection options, Easy to use controls
About me... Parent with movie watching kids, Love to stream movies
I would recommend this to a friend!
0points
0out of 0found this review helpful.
Review 11 for Sony 3D Wi-Fi Ready Blu-ray Player

Love it for the price

Customer Rating
5.0 out of 5
5.0
Posted by: AlanM
from Charlotte, NC
on 01/27/2012
Value for Price
5.0 out of 5
5.0
Picture Quality
5.0 out of 5
5.0
Ease of Use
4.0 out of 5
4.0
Ease of Set Up
4.0 out of 5
4.0
What's great about it: Price, number of apps
What's not so great: Netflix not in 5.1, audio setup for SACD was confusing
For my a bit older 720p HDTV, this works great. Love the networking features and Netflix. Picture quality is excellent, and I can stream 1080p mkv files using Mediamonkey as my DLNA server. Blu-rays load quickly. A minor issue I have is that if you stop a blu-ray or a media file, it doesn't remember where you left off (not sure if there is a way to put chapters into a mkv file and whether or not this unit would see them). This is a bigger problem with streaming movies from my PC as I have to fast forward to find were I last was. Not sure why windows media player won't stream mkv (it plays them on the PC) and that's a pain because I have to make sure mediamonkey is running on the PC, while media player's DLNA server is always on, well, as long as the PC is running of course. Plays SACD files and outputs over HDMI. Other minor issues: won't stream FLAC; no 5.1 surround with Netflix; no Blockbuster steaming app. Getting the audio to work exactly how I needed (have an older receiver) was tricky, but there are plenty of forums out there to help you out, like AVS forum. Manual wasn't much help in this situation and a call to Sony tech was pointless (they were clueless and wouldn't offer assistance as I didn't have a Sony receiver).
Also note: this unit DOES NOT have wifi. You must hard wire either to a remote access point or to your wired network. There are solutions out there, but this unit is mainly for people who don't need wireless. Spend a few bucks more on the similar 580 if you need wifi (note the wireless N on the 580 is on the 2.4 Ghz frequency, not the 5 Ghz).
This product has... Great DVD upconversion, Useful Internet-enabled features, Good connection options, Easy to use controls
About me... Budget Conscious, Casual movie watcher, Love to stream movies
I would recommend this to a friend!
+3points
3out of 3found this review helpful.
Review 12 for Sony 3D Wi-Fi Ready Blu-ray Player

I promise, it will work...

Customer Rating
1.0 out of 5
1.0
Posted by: Anonymous
from Littleton, CO
on 01/26/2012
Value for Price
1.0 out of 5
1.0
Picture Quality
1.0 out of 5
1.0
Ease of Use
1.0 out of 5
1.0
Ease of Set Up
1.0 out of 5
1.0
What's great about it: I'm sure it works great
What's not so great: as long as you use HDMI only...
This was the second DVD /Blue Ray player we tried (search for my other post) and the very helpful sales assistant SWORE this one would work with our current installations. Wrong again.
About me... Budget Conscious, Love to stream movies
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
-7points
0out of 7found this review helpful.
Review 13 for Sony 3D Wi-Fi Ready Blu-ray Player

Get the other one with the built in WIFI!

Customer Rating
1.0 out of 5
1.0
Posted by: raygun101
from Floyds Knobs, Indiana
on 01/26/2012
Value for Price
2.0 out of 5
2.0
Picture Quality
3.0 out of 5
3.0
Ease of Use
2.0 out of 5
2.0
Ease of Set Up
1.0 out of 5
1.0
What's not so great: No WIFI device. It is "WIFI ready". YOu still have to buy the Sony WIFI external adapter for $70.00 plus. Yuk!
I am a Sony fanatic. So when I bought this one nd got it home, I was so ready to watch me some movies. To my surprise, this one is "WIFI READY", not "WIFI BUILT IN". So after investigating that it would cost me another $70.00 + for the external WIFI addapter, I boxed it up and hauled it back to the best buy store. There I bought the other model, BDPS580, (VERY confusing why Best Buy even sells this WIFI ready model) and could not be happier. Sony rocks! But they sure missed the boat with this "WIFI ready" concept!
About me... Budget Conscious, Parent with movie watching kids, Avid movie watcher, Love to stream movies
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
-6points
0out of 6found this review helpful.
Review 14 for Sony 3D Wi-Fi Ready Blu-ray Player

Great price..Replaces your DVD in smaller space

Customer Rating
4.0 out of 5
4.0
Posted by: BestBuyEver777
from Jupiter, FL
on 01/25/2012
Value for Price
4.0 out of 5
4.0
Picture Quality
5.0 out of 5
5.0
Ease of Use
4.0 out of 5
4.0
Ease of Set Up
5.0 out of 5
5.0
What's great about it: About the same price as just the media player. Was able to trash my DVD which was twice the size.
A few months ago I was searching for Internet TV capabilty and paid $79 for the Sony Media Player. I saw this one which had the same functionality but included a DVD\blueray player for $89. It is WI-FI ready, but not built in. The built-in was on sale for $129. I ordered a USB Zoom adapter on the Internet, plug it in and it worked without any fuss. The last I saw the price had increased but still worth a look.
This product has... Great DVD upconversion, Useful Internet-enabled features, Good connection options, Easy to use controls
I would recommend this to a friend!
0points
0out of 0found this review helpful.
Review 15 for Sony 3D Wi-Fi Ready Blu-ray Player

Infrared remote doesn't work well

Customer Rating
3.0 out of 5
3.0
Posted by: CandymanSD
from South Dakota
on 01/25/2012
Value for Price
3.0 out of 5
3.0
Picture Quality
5.0 out of 5
5.0
Ease of Use
2.0 out of 5
2.0
Ease of Set Up
4.0 out of 5
4.0
What's great about it: Excellent picture and sound quality
What's not so great: Remote doesn't work and loading is slow.
This is a fine Bluray player, however the infrared remote only works about half the time. Fortunately I have the remote app for my iPhone which works very well.
This product has... Great DVD upconversion, Slow load time, Useful Internet-enabled features, Good connection options
About me... Budget Conscious, Casual movie watcher
I would recommend this to a friend!
0points
0out of 0found this review helpful.
Review 16 for Sony 3D Wi-Fi Ready Blu-ray Player

Nice uint by byer beware...

Customer Rating
3.0 out of 5
3.0
Posted by: Cthomas888
from Colorado
on 01/25/2012
Value for Price
4.0 out of 5
4.0
Picture Quality
4.0 out of 5
4.0
Ease of Use
3.0 out of 5
3.0
Ease of Set Up
1.0 out of 5
1.0
What's great about it: Great picture for the price
What's not so great: MUST have internet connection to complete setup.
I gave this unit to another family member as a gift then discovered that it's IMPOSSIBLE to watch a movie before completing the setup on the unit...which is IMPOSSIBLE without an internet connection. Unfortunately, my cousin doesn't have one. We took the unit to a neighbor who let us connect it to get it registered. It now plays movies fine, but what a pain to get it started. It's frustrating with manufacturers give you no way out.
This product has... Great DVD upconversion, Easy to use controls
About me... Parent with movie watching kids, Avid movie watcher
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
-2points
0out of 2found this review helpful.
Review 17 for Sony 3D Wi-Fi Ready Blu-ray Player

Great blu ray for the price.

Customer Rating
5.0 out of 5
5.0
Posted by: BMart
from Washington, MO
on 01/23/2012
Value for Price
5.0 out of 5
5.0
Picture Quality
5.0 out of 5
5.0
Ease of Use
4.0 out of 5
4.0
Ease of Set Up
4.0 out of 5
4.0
What's great about it: Everything!
What's not so great: Doesn't have an internal wifi.
Great. Arrived on time and work so well. Easy to use.
This product has... Great DVD upconversion, Good connection options, Easy to use controls
About me... Avid movie watcher
I would recommend this to a friend!
-2points
0out of 2found this review helpful.
Review 18 for Sony 3D Wi-Fi Ready Blu-ray Player

Basic Smart 3D player

Customer Rating
4.0 out of 5
4.0
Posted by: 2trip
from St. George, UT
on 01/21/2012
Value for Price
5.0 out of 5
5.0
Picture Quality
5.0 out of 5
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0 out of 5
5.0
Ease of Set Up
5.0 out of 5
5.0
What's great about it: Bravia sync features, 3Dcapability
What's not so great: No 3D stream from Vudu, No NHL Game Center Live, Remote shortcomings
Tried a few other 3D players before sticking with this one. To the best of my knowledge this is the same as the sony s-580 without the wi-fi. Couple knocks, no 3D stream from VUDU, no NHL Game Center Live. The Netflix interface is different than other smart devices still mixed on this one. Would be nice if the remote was back-lit and able to control TV and receiver(both sony products) more completely. A good value for the price.
This product has... Useful Internet-enabled features, Good connection options, Easy to use controls
About me... Budget Conscious, Avid movie watcher, Love to stream movies
I would recommend this to a friend!
0points
0out of 0found this review helpful.
Review 19 for Sony 3D Wi-Fi Ready Blu-ray Player

Great Blu-Ray Player from Black Friday Sales

Customer Rating
4.0 out of 5
4.0
Posted by: Casualty
from Burlington, NC
on 01/20/2012
Value for Price
5.0 out of 5
5.0
Picture Quality
4.0 out of 5
4.0
Ease of Use
3.0 out of 5
3.0
Ease of Set Up
2.0 out of 5
2.0
Got a great price on this player for Black Friday. My only problem was that I did not read everything clearly on the package to know that I had to buy a USB Wireless adapter to use with the unit...and not only that, I had to purchase a specific model...but that was all my fault, not the players...
This product has... Great DVD upconversion, Useful Internet-enabled features
About me... Budget Conscious, Parent with movie watching kids, Avid movie watcher, Love to stream movies
I would recommend this to a friend!
0points
0out of 0found this review helpful.
Review 20 for Sony 3D Wi-Fi Ready Blu-ray Player

Good Player, But missing one thing

Customer Rating
4.0 out of 5
4.0
Posted by: Avvi
from Elgin, IL
on 01/20/2012
Value for Price
4.0 out of 5
4.0
Picture Quality
5.0 out of 5
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0 out of 5
5.0
Ease of Set Up
5.0 out of 5
5.0
What's great about it: Great Video Quality
What's not so great: Expensive WiFi Adapter
I liked this Blu-Ray a lot. I was extremely excited to open it and when I finally did and hooked it all up the screen lit up and everything worked fine. The only thing I mark this product down on is the fact that Sony requires that their users to go out and by a WiFi device driver to use the wifi that is on the player, which btw is $60-80. So yes, It's a great DvD/Blu-Ray player, and I would definitely recommend it to anyone who is just simply looking to buy it for that reason. If you're looking for one that comes with WiFi drivers / devices pre-installed, I'd look elsewhere, as you'll save money that way.
I would recommend this to a friend!
+2points
2out of 2found this review helpful.
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