That is my impression after a week with the players is said an overall quite positive. For me, 3 points were important:
1. network capability, incl. DLNA
2. Good Blu-ray performance (image and sound, no artifacts such as stuttering, etc.)
3. Reasonable price
I will focus again on this point.
1) Network capability / DLNA
The main reason for my purchase decision was the DLNA feature of the player. I have a small QNAP NAS (a file / media server) and an Xbox 360. With the latter I had previously streamed videos from NAS, but the 360 has not read all the formats that were lying on the server so, so often times a "Unsupported Codec Error" came, which is just frustrating. The Sony player replaced for this function now my 360, and lo and behold, he has not read all formats, even those which had 360 problems (more precisely, it reads DivX / XviD, WMV, and a few others, see specifications on the Sony page).
The "Setup" from DLNA is fully automated: just pure network cable, and the DLNA server appeared automatically in the menu items under "Photos", "Music" and "Video" on! You can then navigate the contents so as if they were directly on the player. Better and Easier than ever.
Unlike the Samsung Blu-ray players with DLNA function of Sony can also perform all the standard functions when streaming videos, so start / pause forward, and rewind (one heck hardly believe it, but some other player does not support these basic functions!) I However, had the feeling that the picture quality when streaming is a bit worse than on the 360, the color a little fake and too bright. Overall, I'm very pleased with DLNA on the Sony.
The player also has Internet-Video: For a variety of channels (Pro7 and YouTube to WIRED) you can short videos streamed from the Internet. The image quality is due to the high compression and the big screen pretty bad but at times to watch a missed Tagesschau quite handy!
2) Blu-ray Performance
First of all: I look at a Samsung 46 "LCD (with Edge-LED backlight) Here, unfortunately, I lack compared to other players, but I describe times my impression I had two films directly ordered (John Carpenter's.." The Thing "and "Stardust"), have so far only seen the former, and what has struck me. About the whole picture of time, there is a kind of color noise, which is a constantly moving granularity In scenes with a uniform color (eg snow scene) is seen also block / artefacts, the image will be "pixelated" The problem is.. I can not say whether or not the player, the TV, or simply the compression / quality of the film causes In any case, I'm not excited about it.
The sound is top. Have the player via digital RCA at a small Logitech 5.1 system works beautifully.
The drive noise, I can find fault with many here acknowledge. However, one should note that there is ever only audible in quiet scenes, since it is otherwise drowned out by the sound of the film. Also, it seems to occur only in the front tracks of discs, and is "later" in the film getting quieter until it is eventually practically inaudible. I do not find it so disturbing that there would be a reason to trade the player.
3) Price
Since you probably do not have much to say. 130 on this player are absolutely great. Have a lot of previously compared the Internet and read opinions, and I think that the player is the best in this price range.
Conclusion:
Much product for less money, with smaller quirks that you should accept the field in the low-end.
