Sony BDP-S590 3D Blu-ray Disc Player with Wi-Fi (Black)

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1. Adrian

   March 6, 2013 at 10:50 am

   320 of 329 people found the following review helpful

   
   This is a great Streamer / Bluray and DVD player, March 20, 2012

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   This review is from: Sony BDP-S590 3D Blu-ray Disc Player with Wi-Fi (Black) (Electronics)

   This is a awesome Streamer/Bluray/DVD player. I haven’t experienced any issues whatsoever playing back Bluray disks. Boot times are very good with the disks I tested. Everything played back perfectly with stunning picture quality. However, I really purchased this player for its streaming abilities. Sony players were dinged in the past for a poor Netflix experience. Sony have fixed this with a updated Netflix interface that supports 1080p and Dolby Digital+ streams. Similarly Amazon VOD supports Dolby Digital bitstream audio, and VUDU and HULU+ are unchanged from the 2011 players, but work fine. Its also nice to have “crackle” on there so you can watch the odd Seinfeld episode when you fancy.

   I also tested the player with a DNLA server. Sony seem to recommend Serviio (free) so I think they must test the DLNA features of the player with this software. I tested photos, music and video and everything played back perfectly.

   Anyway, a great streamer/disk player. Highly recommended !!

   ** update **

   Had a need to play a Disney BD disk on this player the other day. A comment here suggests that Disney BDs won’t play. Complete nonsense. They playback perfectly.

   ** Update (8/27/12) **

   Sony added support for watch lists with the amazon Vod app.

   Cinema NOW is now supported.

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2. 6er

   March 6, 2013 at 10:03 am

   912 of 941 people found the following review helpful

   
   Great all around player(review with light “test” info, and 6 month update), March 31, 2012

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   6er –

   This review is from: Sony BDP-S590 3D Blu-ray Disc Player with Wi-Fi (Black) (Electronics)

   [added a “6 moths later update at the end]
   This isn’t a super in depth review, but will give you more info that most will in a fairly brief summary:

   First off, I am a Sony TV guy who bought TWO Panasonic Blu-Ray players last year due to their seeming superiority(reviews, pro and online stores).

   First step for any modern electronic device, update your firmware. My initial update took over 5 minutes. I also recommend registering at internet.sony.tv as in the past some Sony products won’t connect to certain services until you do. I connected to AmazonVideo on Demand and Netflix, BEFORE I registered it, so they may have responded to complaints and dropped the requirement, but incase there is a service that require it get it out of the way, it only takes a minute if you have a Sony account already

   Netflix app(they upgraded! Sony fans rejoice!):
   One glaring fault with (past/pre-2012?) Sony visual products is their Netflix app, as for years Sony decided to have a proprietary interface, and if you have researched it, a LOT of people had Netflix streaming issues. I guess Sony finally took note, as the new interface is like a across between the Wii interface and the Panasonic interface, as in it looks like you avgerage Netflix app now. I watched the Norwegian film TrollHunters, and it took about 15-20 seconds to load the movie, 10 seconds for the Netflix stream to stabilize to the bandwidth( this is mostly on Netflix’s end I believe), with the unit 10 feet from my router. For the entire movie, it never reloaded or refreshed, or froze, and was in 1080 with 5.1 sound. I also paused the movie and rewound several times with no reload or delay. Truly the smoothest Netflix experience I have had yet on any of my devices. If your getting the S590 I assume this will be important to you. And yes, it has a dedicated Netflix button, and the app loads faster than my Wii or Panasonic Blu Ray players, and my Sony TV’s, so I assume they have “fixed” it, but I haven’t done a lot of viewing yet.

   Blu Ray performance:
   Another reviewer said it won’t play Disney movies, but I didn’t have a problem, more later. First I put in the Star Trek (2009) Blu Ray, which has great visual beginning. I didn’t have any performance issues that I could tell, and the menus are VERY fast and responsive, almost to a fault as there was a bit of shutter on the pop up menu, but unless you watch the movie with the pop up constantly going up and down I don’t see this as a big issue. It was roughly 30 seconds from hitting the eject button to close the tray to the Paramount intro screen going, not bad.

   I then tried a 3D Disney Blu Ray (Tangeled, a true Disney made film), as one reviewer had said Disney BR does not work. Seeing as how this player is VERY new( a few weeks to a month on market), My guess is there was a firmware issue, disc issue, or user issue. That said, Tangeled played flawlessly in 3D as I skipped around chapters trying to cause an issue, but it all worked great.

   Also, this player, in my opinion, works very fast when skipping chapters or loading a scene from menu, where some playera seem to pause or lag. It was also quick to fast foward and “rewind”, with little to no pause when hitting the button. A noticeable leap over my 2011 model panasonic bdt-220.

   Network set-up:
   As usual for modern Sony products, if you have a WPS router, took roughly 2 minutes, from the time I started the set up on the TV, walked to my router in the next room and hit the WPS button, and then walked backed to tell the TV to begin connecting.

   The Media Remote app for Android worked very well, but you must first go to the settings menu on the TV and scroll down to the Media remote section, and “register”(aka activate, a button push) the feature(an unnecessary step IMO but I guess they are worried about people with an unprotected router have their TV taken over by pranksters?).

   Now some people are complaining about build quality. It’s true it doesn’t feel as sturdy at the Panasonic Players I bought last year, but is by no means flimsy. Unless you are planning on dropping it regularly, or letting your dog chew on it, I don’t see a problem with this. It does look nice, with a brushed metal “look” on the case.

   As with seemlingly EVERY Blu Ray player, it does not come with an HDMI(which baffles me, it isnt expensive to make a high quality HDMI cable, don’t get fooled by the HDMI cable prices).

   6-Month Update
   I have now owned this product for 6 months. If I were to again compare it to the Panasonic’s , although they are a generation older, the Sony absolutely blows them away. It loads movies faster, it streams Hulu and Netflix faster, it updates firmware MUCH faster, and I have not had any streaming or Blu Ray video problems at all.

   I have encountered one issue, but won’t change my rating. On Fast Boot mode,…

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