Now to the point:
When the BD player arrived, I was surprised the size of the packaging. After unpacking (somewhat unusual) keeps you a visually high-quality players in the hand (clearly matter of taste). Slightly smaller as usual and you have to also say that you can not ask him! The surface is made of piano lacquer. Schick but just scratch-prone and dust magnet. For me, he is always in the room wall and you see him not so
By diamond look the Blu Ray player just is not flat but runs, as you can see it in the photos, (slightly) pointed to the right to
The key arrangement I find very good. One can now easily open the tray from the top etc.
Volume:
After the Schnelleinrichten I was naturally curious about the volume ...
Nothing! (Unusual). The player loads clean and above all very fast a disc! The resulting sounds are known and normal.
While the films contemplation he can be heard. I can not make squeaking and no other noise. The noise is caused by the speed and is similar to a PC drive (rather high frequency). The sound, however, covered by the TV. My old player was quieter here. I would like to hear the S490 compared.
(Supposedly they are indeed also become quieter, possibly Sony has revised or are you just have to play the lottery).
I do not think so I resend him because of the volume!
UPDATE: So the pitch and speed changes with progress of the film. So next chapter will slow the speed and sound of low frequency. I find the volume acceptable. Only in quiet film locations can be heard the player. The old Sony player from my parents (2009) was also much quieter here. The speed was not there to listen only has this purred like a cat :) but that was very tolerable. So I have no comparison to the S490, I can not beuurteilen whether respects facilitated the drive noise Sony improves, verschlechter or remained the same. Fact it is going also determines quieter.
The disc tray closes and opens without delay and very high quality (I speak of because it leaves a positive impression) and the display is easy to read (seats 3 meters).
3D Blu Ray:
Attention !!!
The player has loaded the 3D Blu Ray and also the 3D function was detected and displayed by the TV, and then came a black screen !! I thought Oh great and also a 2nd Blu Ray just did not start. On the display was only 0:00:00 and nothing went
>>> An update solves the problem! I think it was the version M15.R.0043 upon delivery. This I have hopefully and easily through the online update (LAN cable connected) with the version M15.R.0093 which is dated 19.02.2013, replaced and TADA! now the 3D Blu Ray ran flawlessly ..
(With Sony on the website was only = advantages and improvements: BRAVIA Internet Video improvement)
ONLINE video library:
Apparently for some interesting ... and indeed supported by the player, among others (!) Love film and also max cathedrals ...
DLNA streaming:
The Player Streams without significant problems. Tested with Windows 7 and Server Serviio (which is also very easy to install). MKV files are no problem. The networking was to be expected very simple ...
Remote control (small and handy):
I take this from the TV. Because HDMI device control you miss not a single button and you can control it all with his TV remote control.
To get an idea of the layout but I have photographed the remote control and added at the user pics here!
User interface:
Sony is typical and just as before also (XrossMediaBar). Everything is tidy and organized. Info during playback (Sony typical) on the output key and the data stream of the DVD respectively Blu Ray in Mbits, round out the cause.
Connection options:
HDMI, SPDIF, Lan (100Mb / s) 2x USB which can be easily solved once the back and once in front, but which is hidden by a cap. The cap is fixed to the case (as it is known, for example, (Micro SD) card slot of the mobile phone or the like).
Since I do not have any 5.1 system or the like, I can not say anything to the sound of HD formats. But I think that everything will be passed smoothly and flawlessly on the respective AV Receiver.
The image quality is very good and I think that now, has become a bit sharper the image with the new Blu Ray player compared to my old (4 years old). The colors are fine and also the moving image is now very quiet
The whole is connected to a Sony Bravia HX 755.
What you should mention is that the player will start very quickly (within 1 second !!!). This can be selected in the menu and costs a little more standby power! How much exactly but I have not yet determined ...
Trinomelirous Color function is probably so for the new Sony TV I can not test. Similarly, I've seen that is now supported even with Deep Color 16-bit (Guess also new generation).
I have my first "first" impressions shared by some to facilitate the purchase decision ...
Standby light is not available. Upscaling I found now also good. But Blu Ray Blu Ray is still ..
I think for 114 This is a solid device. He can do everything you need to enjoy high-quality and sharp crack to a movie (in 3D), yet also offers many online streaming offers and befütterung via the USB port (not tested!). [Since I've already NEN Sony TV is here now everything duplicated].
Deductions or weaknesses are precisely the drive noise and the design could be criticized yet.
I hope to have helped you a little bit
ADDENDUM: So yesterday I looked Lichtmond and Sammys adventure in 3D. Lichtmond had a significant imbalance.
The player could be heard more than clear and vibrated. This, however, lay down again after a short time and the quality and the 3D effect was so captivating that when the next time I stayed on it the player was quiet.
Sammy's Adventures In the same only without the imbalance. After a few minutes not heard ...
Nevertheless, it must not be. Perhaps improved here by Sony for an update? People who want a quiet player is therefore recommended that only a very limited extent.
ADDENDUM 2: 2 New Movies and looked both whisper from the outset. I do not know why there are differences ... very beautiful and real that the players concerns immediately (within 1 second)
ADDENDUM 3: The player reads easily mkv files via USB and also features DLNA!
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Addendum 4 (09/01/2014): I once tested a few files: a conventional NTFS was Uses formatted 16GB USB Stick USB on front!
Jellyfish file (Internet freely available)
MKV with 50 MB / s is working properly.
70 MB / s and
120 Mbits come some pictures and stops (insane data rate !!)
MPEG 1 is (.mpg)
WMV 9 he plays
MPEG 2 went (.mpg)
Mp4 files with Xvid and MPEG 4 codec ran also ran
Movie MKV with H.264 Sample File went smoothly
DIVX he did not play from (divx)
DIVX MKV in not (Divx HD plus test file)
XVID file to AVI - works
MKV container ca 8GB without problem
It also shows the file type correctly and the data stream in the system tray
Audio:
MP3 320 kbits no problems.
AC3 file worked (with Dolby Digital 448 kbits)
WMA worked.
FLAC file test ran smoothly
AAC as MP4 Audio (.m4a) ran just as easily
ADDENDUM 5 (20 April 2014)
Amazon Video maintenance works also
