Amazon.com: Customer reviews: Sony BDP-S6700 4K Upscaling 3D Home Theater Streaming Blu-Ray DVD Player with Wi-Fi, Dolby Digital TrueHD/DTS, and upscaling

Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2023

This - Sony BDP-S6700, is really something else, honestly. I was a bit sceptical, how much do you improve on a Blu Ray outside 4 or 8k?, well one of the first things watched was the first 6 Star Wars movies, was like seeing them again for the first time, picture quality was honestly almost too good/clean looking, really. (There is absolutely No need for 4k or upcoming 8k movie disks with this if you have an HDR monitor or 4k tv your hooking up to.(tried both) Like I said almost too clean. Then watched The Cure's 40th Anniversary as well as Curation 25 concerts, darn, was like we were actually their, Really! On the note of the concert viewing, I decided to try the Bluetooth on this player, to an external portable speaker for better sound, easy connectivity and worked flawlessly no sound lag! The main menus were easily navigated as well. Extremely compact and lightweight, you can literally take anywhere. Comes with remote control, power cord, HDMI cable and two batteries for remote. Looked at and compared so so many, honestly, even way more expensive ones, decided to just try this and so glad I did.

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Softsong

Easy to Use, Great Picture! Very Happy

Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2018

Style: SingleVerified Purchase

I am very happy with this purchase. I recently bought my first flat screen TV, had an older DVD player and an older Sony stereo for 5:1 surround sound. I wanted to be able to make my dumb TV smart, so I bought a Roku. I loved it, but there were no hookups to split the sound from the video and so the sound came through the TV instead of my beautiful vintage Pioneer speakers. This Steaming Blu-Ray solved the problem. I got rid of the old DVD player and put the Roku in a bedroom. I still had a problem, though. The old DVD player had RCA cables to connect to my older stereo system. This does not. It has an audio co-axial cable connection and another connection that was unusable for an older system. I naively thought co-axle cable was what I used in the bedrooms to connect the TV to cable. So, I researched what it was, bought an audio sound co-axial cable and I needed a digital to analog converter box. The audio co-axial attached to the converter box, and the other side of the converter box had RCA hookup. Voila! I now have wonderful streaming, and I can hear my sound through my vintage Pioneer speakers. The player itself was easy to set up. If you have a current stereo system, you will have no problems. I relate my experience for those like me who are modern, but still like their older components. I have not had any issues with the Blu Ray player and thought it was a bargain price wise and functionality.

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Scott Skowron

Good player for a good price

Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2024

Style: SingleVerified Purchase

Player technology has improved since I last purchased one. The unit is fast, quiet and easy to use.

The downside is that the remote is the membrane switch type with crowded buttons leading to time-consuming reloads from hitting the wrong button. Also it is not possible to load third party apps for streaming services so you're a limited to what the player comes with. Listings make it nearly impossible to figure out what exactly you're getting so I incorrectly believed I was purchasing a unit with unlocked region codes.

All Things Considered I am happy with the purchase and would recommend it to anyone looking for a good player. The upscaling is everything it promises to be even on streaming video. Set up is simple and included streaming services work well.

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Mike

Upgrades your DVD collection to near Blu-ray quality.

Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2024

Style: SingleVerified Purchase

The good: Super fast, easy network connection, beautiful up conversion of discs and streaming content.
The bad: The remote is tiny and the buttons are close together, so using it in a dark room is difficult, and I often hit the wrong button, kicking me out of my show.
The ugly: To get the up conversion to work with DVDs and streaming services on a non-Sony TV, you must go into the settings and change to option 2 for up conversion, enable 24p for all devices, and set each device for it's highest resolution. It's all in the manual, which you can download on Sony's support website.

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Ikaros

Works good

Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2024

Style: SingleVerified Purchase

Use it everyday works very well

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SIG

Upscaling is Real

Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2023

Style: SingleVerified Purchase

Since I purchased this product based on the price and my personal experience of satisfaction with Sony products, the feature of "upscaling" was something I assumed to be more marketing hype than something noteworthy. But I was wrong. Their claim of upscaling ordinary DVDs to nearly HD quality is real. It actually works. But thinking I must be wrong, I connected my other Blu-ray player to the same TV and inserted the same disk. The quality of the picture was markedly different. This "upscaling" feature is impressive.

As sometimes happens with electronics, after a few months of use, this player started to malfunction by periodically displaying random colored lines on top of the picture. But true to Sony's reputation for great customer service, after troubleshooting, they had me return the player. Within two weeks, I had a new one.

I continue to be impressed by Sony; their quality, their cutting-edge innovations, and their warranty. This was a great purchase.

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Lance Mowery

Problem piece

Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2017

Style: SingleVerified Purchase

The first problem I noticed was that this box does not come with an HDMI cable and a separate one needed to be purchased. Upon further investigation, I found that there are some models that come with the cable while others do not. After cable purchase and installation, set up and internet connection was relatively easy and user friendly; though mine is connected through Ethernet cable and not WiFi. Applications such as YouTube, Netflix, and Amazon Video were easy to find and quick to install. Dvd/Blu Ray player worked great, apps worked fine.
The next problem could be due to a faulty box, as I have not read all the reviews, I have no way of knowing in others are experience this same problem. After continuous usage the system shuts down. The screen will go black, the tray won't open, and the box will not shut off. The only way I have found to correct this issue is by unplugging the box for an extended period of time. I have not found any period this happens. Sometime the system works great for 6 hours of useage, and sometimes it will happen after only 2 hours. The same with unplugging it. Sometimes it will work again after 5 minutes of being unplugged, and sometimes it takes an hour before it works properly again. The only positive thing about it is that has not happened in the middle of watching something; be DVD or Netflix, the only time it happens is when trying to go from one application to the next (i.e. After watching a DVD and wanting to switch to Netflix.) Upon being plugged back in, no information is lost as usernames and passwords are not needed for Netflix or Amazon Video to work. The system seems to work fine after unplugging and re plugging in. Until it happens the next time.
The HDMI cable was frustrating and makes the system more expensive (figure another $25 for a good HDMI cable), but the no response problem has turned me off completely to this system.

Apps:
It contains many applications, including the one that most people probably look for (Netflix, Amazon Video, you Tube) but there are many more apps this system could stand to have (HBO, CW) and doesn't. I have not tried any of the music apps.

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alan

Nice compact unit

Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2024

Style: SingleVerified Purchase

It sets up easily and sends a clear high definition signal to the television. Only complaint would be that the remote is small and not intuitive.

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d double-u

Great features except for the lack of apps

Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2023

Style: SingleVerified Purchase

When I read the reviews criticizing this Sony player for the lack of the ability to add apps, I left it in my order queue of a few weeks. However, when the price dropped under $90, I bought it.

- It can play CDs encoded with MP3 music files and play them in a random order. However, if you have folders in a USB folder, it will only play the songs in random order within the folder.

- On the USB drive, it will play MP4, FLV, MKV, VOB, and some AVI video files. It fail to play a majority of my AVI files and does not separate the chapters as well as my old Patriot Box.

- It read my 4TB portable hard drive that had almost 3TB of video/audio material. However, it did not read both partitions of a partitioned 4TB hard drive. It kept reading the same one partition regardless of how many times I plugged and replugged the drive in the USB port.

- It will freeze frame and step frame advance video files. It does not reverse step frame.

- The slowest speed on fast forward/rewind is too fast to land a desired place.

- Even though it has Bluetooth 4 versus the Bluetooth 5 in my PCs, it was a lot easier to connect it to my Bluetooth speakers.

- If all you steam is Amazon Prime video, Netflix, YouTube, and Tubi, then the apps are okay for you. It does not have most of the video streaming apps and no method to add them even though it has a software upgrade option for Sony to upgrade it software. However, it appears Sony does not plan to upgrade its software since I tried to upgrade it when I initialized the player, and no upgrades were available. It appears the major manufacturers of Blu-ray players have stopped making new models.

- I have hundreds of DVDs and less than a hundred Blu-ray disk but could not find a DVD player that had some of the features in this player. I was also looking for a backup to an old Patriot box that is no longer manufactured. The current media players and Android boxes do not have all the features that the Patriot box has. I had hoped Patriot was going to update the box versus discontinuing making them but streaming probably made them obsolete for the mass market.

I have old DVRs with hard drives that made it easy to edit out commercials before burning them to a DVD and/or converting them to an AVI or MP4 file so was looking for something to continue playing them. AVI used to be the most popular video files before MP4 took over that title so it appears I will only be able to play them on my Patriot or PC as time continues to make so of my older files obsolete.

I have this player hooked up to a large screen TV with 4 HDMI inputs so I can listen to music while surfing the net or watching TV with this set up. I am not sure who really buys Blu-ray players unless one has a large library of those disks. Blu-ray is basically obsolete and there are better devices for streaming now. However, there are enough features that is player has that I could not get with today's devices and with 4 HDMI ports, this player met my needs.

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Stuart

Decent Enough

Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2024

Style: SingleVerified Purchase

Overall, it is a good player. I like the quality of the dvds and blu rays that I play on it.

I use it for discs and not for the streaming ability (I use a Roku for that). I have been using it for about 7 months now. The only issue I have had with it is that it occasionally gets noisy. The device vibrates sometimes when playing a disc. The vibration will reverberate within its cubby, and will be noticeable throughout the room. Some people here think that it is annoying, while others can just tune it out.

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