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Sony 3D Wi-Fi Built-In Blu-ray Player
Model: BDPS780
SKU: 2173117
UPC: 027242817722
Learn more about Magnolia Premium Installation This Blu-ray Disc player features 3D playback for a high-quality dimension of entertainment and is Internet connectable for access to Instant Content. 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. Netflix Pandora Skype YouTube
Average Customer Rating:
4.5
out of 5
(6 Reviews) 6
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83% of customers would recommend this product to a friend
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Customer Reviews for Sony 3D Wi-Fi Built-In Blu-ray Player
Review 1 for Sony 3D Wi-Fi Built-In Blu-ray Player
Does What It's Supposed To Do
Customer Rating
5.0
What's great about it: Excellent picture quality for DVDs and internet TV
What's not so great: Slightly more pricey that other models
I used this model to replace one of the first Sony Blu-Ray players that was agonizingly slow to load and play. This new model loads much faster and we also enjoy its ability to make our TV "smart" by watching high-quality streamed NETFLIX movies. We have not experienced any problems with low signal strength or choppy pictures. It simply works as advertised and we couldn't be happier with its performance.
This product has... 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!
+8points
8out of 8found this review helpful.
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Review 2 for Sony 3D Wi-Fi Built-In Blu-ray Player
Ok but....
Customer Rating
2.0
Posted by: remotecontrol
from boston
on 10/12/2011
What's great about it: comes with an app
What's not so great: the app is exrtemely limited
so it does the basics, and if you are stuck you can call tech support, after dealing with someone in a foreign country for quite some time I realized my call would get no where when he asked what i was using for a remote, I replied an Ipad, and after a long pause he said "that is the small one right?"
This product has... Slow load time
About me... Avid movie watcher
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
-18points
2out of 22found this review helpful.
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Review 3 for Sony 3D Wi-Fi Built-In Blu-ray Player
Awesome DVD Player
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: Slider2828
from San Francisco, CA
on 09/21/2011
What's great about it: 3D is amazing the best
What's not so great: It is a little loud during loading, but all BD players are.
Ok guys, if you are watching 2D stuff, the S580 is probably just as good as any, but if you are watching 3D stuffm you have to go with the S780. The 16 Bit Super Bit Stream is basically as close as you will get to a pro-sumer dvd player without going ES level. The main picture is the same, but what you will notice is the clarity of the 3D images that are outside of the main focal area. Such as the 3d backgrounds, the sky the grass; its noticeably clear when in 3D.
Also do yourself a favor and do not buy the sony 3d glasses. They are terrible. Buy Xpand glasses. They are sharper, lighter, and more compfortable to wear compared to the Sony 250 glasses.
Oh also this does play DLNA avi's but only in certain formats....
This product has... Useful Internet-enabled features, Good connection options, Easy to use controls
About me... Avid movie watcher, Love to stream movies
I would recommend this to a friend!
+13points
16out of 19found this review helpful.
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Review 4 for Sony 3D Wi-Fi Built-In Blu-ray Player
Great DVD player
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: Akmaj
from Anchorage, AK
on 08/24/2011
What's great about it: Great price for all the features.
What's not so great: Nothing
Very easy to set- up and use. A lot of great features.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Review 5 for Sony 3D Wi-Fi Built-In Blu-ray Player
what I was looking for
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: doc1man
from denver
on 08/11/2011
I like the netflix search function. it loads dvds and blu rays quickly.
I would recommend this to a friend!
+8points
11out of 14found this review helpful.
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Review 6 for Sony 3D Wi-Fi Built-In Blu-ray Player
This player is fantastic!
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: bb66
from Erie, PA
on 05/08/2011
Value for Price
5.0
Features
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Ease of Set Up
3.0
What's great about it: Features and performance
What's not so great: Ease of setup
I was a little apprehensive about buying this player because I had read some reviews that were critical of the setup and configuration for this device. While that did turn out to be the weakest part of the package, I decided to take a chance because I have always been partial to Sony products. I am sure glad I did. I was so impressed with this player that I decided to write a review.
First it is extremely compact. You can check the specs for the dimensions. It fit perfectly in the spot I had for it with plenty of room to spare. One nice design feature is that the vent holes are in the rear so I was not concerned about setting my cable box on top of it.
The setup presented a few challenges but if you are reasonably tech savvy you won't have any problems. If you aren't, then get a friend to help you. The interface is much better than I was led to believe. If you are familiar with the PS3 it uses the same award winning crossbar navigation. One review I read called it confusing but I am very pleased with it. Basically this little device does nearly everything a PS3 does except play games. (BTW, I bought this for a bedroom. I already have a PS3. If I was buying my first blu-ray player I would recommend buying a PS3 instead.)
Here are a few tips for setup. First, the main feature I wanted, Netflix support, did not appear on the menu initially. You have to drill down the menus to select something like "add bonus features." It also helps to have someone help you because I had to run back and forth to my computer and router to press buttons and enter configuration codes, etc. This would likely be the case with any similar device, however. I also recommend that the first thing you do once you get connected to the internet is to update the system software. (This is a nice feature because just like a PS3 or Xbox you can get updates to the system as improvements are made. Sony recommends checking for updates every 2 months.)
Another tip is that it supports an iPhone app called "Media Remote". That appears on the box but I did not see it in the manual. Just go to the App Store and search for "Media Remote" and you can get an app for no added cost that allows your iPhone (or Android based phone)to act as a remote from anywhere on your network. This is most useful for entering text using the iPhone's software keyboard.
Now why do I like it so much? Besides performing flawlessly, there are a lot of extras that aren't marketed much if any. First surprise - there was a 3D Blu-Ray Disc in the box! (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader 3D.) I didn't see anything in the ads or on the box advertising this so this was an unexpected bonus. (I bought my player direct from Sony because I had a large number of points built up from my Sony credit card, so I don't know if players purchased from other sources include the disc but I guess that they would.)
It is probably in the specs but there are USB ports on both the front and the back. If you leave a flash drive in the rear port it acts like a disk drive for BD Live content, although so far I have not been that impressed with BD live. I don't know if it will help performance in other ways, but flash drives are cheap so I put a 4GB drive in the rear port.
Another pleasant surprise is that it plays Super Audio CDs. Although this is pretty much a dead format (as is just about everything with the great quality of internet streaming today) it is still nice to be able to play the few discs that I have.
I was also pleasantly surprised at the amount of free content available, such as movies from Crackle. It also supports YouTube, Skype, Facebook, Hulu and many others. Actually I think this would be a great device even if it didn't have the blu-ray disc player. It also supports a DLNA home network allowing you to stream content from a DLNA enabled comptuer. I was mostly interested in the wi-fi capabilities, but it also has an ethernet jack. (In addition to HDMI it has standard RCA type outputs as well as a coaxial and optical digital output.)
The internet browser is rather weak and it doesn't support streaming video direct from web sites (at least the ones that I looked at), but that's not why I bought it. The performance with Netflix and the other video services I have tried is fantastic. (At first I thought you had to go to the Netflix website through the browser, but when that didn't work I realized that's when you had to jump through all the hoops to enable the bonus features.)
I already mentioned the Media Remote app for iPhone which works really great. It is also available for Android.
So in summary the instructions are not very clear but this is a great BD player and so much more with the built-in wi-fi. (I know I might sound like a Sony fan boy, and I have always been impressed with the engineering of their products. But given the fact that when I write this the Playstation Network has now been down 2.5 weeks, I have nothing nice to say about Sony when it comes to that issue! With PSN being currently down I was not able to try out Sony's Qriocity which this device of course supports.)
You will not be disappointed with this player!
I would recommend this to a friend!
+98points
99out of 100found this review helpful.
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