Much Player for little money

As my five-year-old, really solid BluRay player of LG always had more difficulties with detecting new BluRays, a new acquisition was inevitable. The most obvious difference to the delivery of S4200 was first of all the small size. The Sony player could no less than pass as portable, as small and light is the thing. For this, however, it is limited on the most necessary connections (power, LAN, HDMI, Digital Audio, USB front). One can argue about the pyramidal optic, I hold neither for the big hit yet I find it boring. The only major criticism of the exterior is the weak power LED. Now, I am not a fan of flashy dazzling lights, but the on-light is so narrow-out that you at least during the day hardly can detect whether the player is now on or off.

While we're in the second caveats here: The menu has failed already badly simply from optics ago. New Simplicity would there still too much to say. I like clean lines and symbols, too, but the menu really looks like as if graphical interfaces just been invented. Functionally, however, and you reach the desired point quickly and fairly self-explanatory. And in conjunction with the app SideView one is on tablet or smartphone usually only a few taps away from the goal. With the app you can the device, unlike here criticized by someone, the way already on and off (if the player is in standby). The remote control does its purpose, however, the manual is silent on from how to tune the two TV keys on your own device. If someone here has a tip like.

As for the variety of functions, one can only marvel: Audio, Video, various Internet Apps and access to the largest streaming provider, which I use about Amazon Instant Video and Netflix and what works well, almost better controlled than from my xBox , Easily folds also DLNA playback, as on home NAS. Playback from a USB stick or from the hard disk, I have not tried yet, but in the wealth of support file types should be also not a thing. Incidentally, I have bought some extra cash for the DVD-Codefree version, and also works without problems. CONCLUSION: For the price absolutely fine, small device that leaves nothing to be desired. For the professional home theater certainly something to be undersized, not least because of the tight connections. For normal use, however heavy fine.

** Update ** January 2015 Somehow the Amazon app on the device is not the most stable several times it came here to repeated crashes when streaming. Since I have a fast line and on various tablets and the PC does not experience the problem, I guess times on a vulnerability in the pre-installed app.