The remote control is, as always, completely off at Yamaha. Extremely cheap (cents articles), plastic, with tiny buttons, all squeezed into the top half. Totally confused and poorly placed labels. Easy, cheap, ugly, impractical and difficult to operate. The 48 buttons are much too much, also remain the buttons often times depend. Best of all the many buttons are occupied double and triple. So there are many fun ctio are possible by pressing and holding the buttons, press twice, or by keyboard shortcuts. This makes for the fiddly little buttons fun. The operation is even more confusing. Even the front and rewind is because of this six candidate keys that are only labeled insufficient an ordeal.
The display plays in the same league as the remote control. Hard to read, if the distance is more than two meters, small fringed font, too bright, in an unpleasant cold color. Not dimmable, little information. The following chapter term, BD and play. Here, the lousy display can not be switched course. The Info BD and Play are the size of a pinhead and look as if a fly has made over the term.
The player itself also acts more like a 50.00 unit. It is very light, the connections seem simple and shaky when the charge is out driving the sound is not very loud but it also sounds cheap for plastic lumber. The color is much darker than in the pictures. This is a very dark titanium, almost dirty, brownish. The biggest joke: the front is made of plastic, the rest of the housing metal. It falls on the plastic front is not well painted. Known as titanium color forms clouds and shade because the color was not applied evenly. The gaps particularly in charge, but also the housing are bent and crooked. The noise when turning and when reading affects little high.
After all, there are still a few (7) wobbly plastic buttons, with poor pressure point on the front. They are also slightly larger than advised on the remote control. The inscription is difficult to read, lighting None.
The Menüfuhrung is awkward and poorly explained the settings. Although the extremely thick manual contains seven languages, but little explanation. To set up the player and the TV Guide is required. To set the optimal player should have some knowledge of DRC, resolution of TV`s, Color Space: (YCbCr4: 4: 4/4: 2: 2 / full RGB / RGB), HDMI Deep Color in 30,36 or 48 bits exist , The device is unnecessarily difficult because the manual, unfortunately, only the more simple things are provided with tips and hints. Even simple settings with this case for several hours tasting orgy.
The only part of the equipment has been worked carefully where is the copy protection. So not only some of the original audio CD's are not recognized, the player also plays some original Blu-ray's and DVDs not expire.
If a record falls in movies sometimes in a foreign language, I been automatically supplied all players with subtitles. The BD-S673 does not seem to be able to, either all or nothing with subtitles. Read an update and two hours Manual brought no remedy. Can also be that lets it be set somewhere in the deepest depths of Menü`s. I do not want any more time to invest in this scrap heap.
I would turn off the wireless function and activate only when needed, otherwise the cucumber box consumes 14 watts in standby. Of course there is also no 300,00 for on-off switch more where we came to there? Luckily, there are of burning chair or knights socket strips with single circuit.
Who can do without wireless drives not only look to the LG BP-420 head and shoulders. The picture is not bad, operation sound just a touch louder Menüfuhrung, FB, display and operation head and shoulders. The price is in contrast to the Yamaha BD-S673 cheap to reasonable. The quite quiet Philips BDP-7700 I can although it costs only half and Wireless, has not recommended. The Philips gets louder with increasing operating hours. The software is extremely bad as with so many Philips appliances unfortunately. So the player crashes regularly and does not retain its settings.
As for the optics, processing, loading, display, menu navigation, manual operation and remote control seems to me the 299,00, already extremely outrageous for the BD-S673. The service of Yamaha calls for inquiries to enter the device name. You are in the Blu-Ray disc players "BD-S673" or "BD-S673 3D" an end the way to the contact form, with a red ERROR.
