First of all, I use the player only for playing DVDs and Blu-rays, so can not say anything to the other functions incl. 3D. I have since about 2.5 years, a Blu-ray player from Samsung (BD-P1500), with whom I was very happy until I bought the Sony because of Samsung has given up the ghost, first of all to the image, I was almost overwhelmed what differences there were, I have a very large Blu-ray Collection (ca 170 pieces) and have directly once reingetan the problem cases who do not entirely convinced on Blu-ray, and behold, crisp images , vibrant colors, depth of focus, contrast, all worlds better than the Samsung. Even DVDs looked much more plastic and more alive, even the image flow was much quieter than I use the TV set Philips 47 PFL 5604 H / 12 119.4 cm (47 inch) 16: 9 Full-HD LCD TV, so much for the picture. Now for the sound, I have seen so far about 12 movies completely and was surprised things to hear that I've never wargenommen, furthermore are surround effects much better to you, and to appear more clearly, but I can at the HD audio formats not say anything because my AV receiver formats does not reflect, connected Receiver Yamaha RX-V661.
And now something negative, namely this constant whistling from the drive, depending on the respective film times a little louder then quieter, luckily I had the opportunity to rearrange the components in the rack so that I it hear next to nothing, the excellent picture and Sound weighs in my case, this shortcoming again