Get access to movies, TV episodes, videos, music and live sports events from Netflix, YouTube, HuluPlus, Pandora, and more. With the Sony BDP-S780 3D Blu-ray Disc Player, you can even video chat with friends and family using Skype. Add an app to your iPhone or Android smartphone and turn it in a versatile remote with full QWERTY keyboard for simplified searching. The Sony BDP-S780 3D Blu-ray Disc Player is also HomeShare compatible which allows you to build a customized wireless music experience for your home. All you need is a Sony HomeShare Network speaker to get started, but you can add other HomeShare compatible devices to build the best system for you.
Technical Details
- Sony Internet TV: Get instant access to must-have entertainment, including thousands of hit movies, TV shows, music choices, online videos and games.
- Plus get new apps delivered to you automatically, so the selection is never outdated and you are always connected to the best entertainment
- Built-In Wi-Fi: Easily connect to the internet through the home's wireless broadband network
- Skype capability: Enjoy video conferencing from the living room using BDP-S780 and the Skype service.
Customer Reviews
First it is very compact. You can check the specs for the dimensions. It fit beautifully in the spot I had for doing this with plenty of room to save. One nice design feature is the fact that vent holes are in the rear end so I was not concerned about setting my cable box on top of it.
The setup presented a several challenges but if you are reasonably tech savvy you won't have every problems. If you aren't, then purchase a friend to help you. The slot is much better than I ended up being led to believe. If you understand the PS3 it uses the very same award winning crossbar navigation. One assessment I read called it confusing yet I am very pleased with that. Basically this little device does practically everything a PS3 does except perform games. (BTW, I bought this for just a bedroom. I already have a Playstation 3 250gb. If I was buying my first blu-ray player I would recommend buying a PS3 instead.)
Here are several tips for setup. First, the key feature I wanted, Netflix support, could not appear on the menu initially. You need to drill down the menus to pick something like "add bonus features." It can also help to have someone help you due to the fact I had to run back in addition to forth to my computer and switch to press buttons and enter configuration codes, etc. This would likely be the case with any similar device, however. I additionally recommend that the first thing you decide to do once you get connected to the world wide web is to update the system software. (This is a nice feature simply because just like a PS3 or Xbox 360 system you can get updates to the machine as improvements are made. Sony suggests checking for updates every 2 several weeks.)
Another tip is that it encourages an iPhone app called "Media Remote control". That appears on the box yet I did not see it inside manual. Just go to the App Store and search for "Media Out of the way" and you can get an request for no added cost that allows your iPhone (or Android based phone)to act as a far off from anywhere on your network. This is most useful for entering text while using iPhone's software keyboard.
Now why do I like it so much? Besides undertaking flawlessly, there are a lot with extras that aren't marketed much in case any. First surprise - there was a 3D Blu-Ray Disc in the box! (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Sail of the Dawn Treader 3D.) We didn't see anything in the advertisements or on the box advertising this kind of so this was an unexpected bonus. (I bought my player direct coming from Sony because I had a numerous points built up from my Sony credit card, so I don't realize if players purchased from other solutions include the disc but I reckon that they would.)
It is probably inside the specs but there are USB plug-ins on both the front and the spine. If you leave a flash drive in the rear port it acts as being a disk drive for BD Live subject material, although so far I have not really been that impressed with BD survive. I don't know if it may help performance in other ways, but display drives are cheap so I put a 4GB drive in the backside port.
Another pleasant surprise is that it plays Super Audio CDs. Although that is pretty much a dead format (as it is just about everything with the wonderful quality of internet streaming today) will still be nice to be able to have fun with the few discs that I have.
I'd been also pleasantly surprised at the degree of free content available, such as flicks from Crackle. It also supports Dailymotion, Skype, Facebook, Hulu and many others. Actually I think this would certainly be a great device even if it did not have the blu-ray disc battler. It also supports a DLNA property network allowing you to stream information from a DLNA enabled comptuer. I was mostly interested in the wi-fi capabilities, could has an ethernet jack. (In inclusion to HDMI it has standard RCA type outputs as well to be a coaxial and optical digital output.)
The internet browser is rather weak and getting older support streaming video direct from websites (at least the ones that My spouse and i looked at), but that's not exactly why I bought it. The performance by using Netflix and the other video solutions I have tried is fantastic. (At first I thought you was required to go to the Netflix website throughout the browser, but when that didn't do the job I realized that's when you must jump through all the hoops permit the bonus features.)
I already stated the Media Remote app for iphone 3gs which works really great. It can also be available for Android.
So in summary the instructions are not very obvious but this is a great BD player and so much extra with the built-in wi-fi. (I know I might appear to be a Sony fan boy, and I have always been impressed with the engineering of some. But given the fact that as i write this the Playstation Network has been down 2.5 weeks, We 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 naturally supports.)
