The blurays (europe zone) are well read, I have not had a problem, the SRT subtitle files are read (provided that they are encoded ansi not have weird accent). Navigating a usb hard drive 2 to completed can be frustrating to get to the movie you want if there are many files in the folder. I wish I could go to a specific point in a movie, choose a time instead of having to walk forward, at least I have not found the function I wanted if it exists. If not for bluray no worries.