Since my old Bluray player had given up with 5 years the spirit (was in a compact surround device - never again to buy something: is a component broken, everything has to be bought new), I needed a new and have more by chance this Sony player elected. And indeed, it was a good choice, because the operation of the basic functions is simple and the image is excellent. The old player was the picture again by far not as good and there was really no difference between BluRay and DVD, also he made many discs problems 5.1 sound. With the BDP-S1200 I now get a razor sharp Bluray image and so far he has also played the disc, where the old strike. Playable all three formats: BluRay, DVD and CD, according to the description and self-burned and RWs, which I have not tried yet. The format of the player initially irritated me, it is very small and portable, but because there is no more operation bar is necessary (runs eh everything via remote control) is now probably normal. Thus it hardly needs space and disturbs visually at all. Now it would be nice if he would run at least a few years, because it's annoying to constantly deal with new technology, if you're not a freak.