

Am using the excellent Mediabridge Ultra HDMI Category 2 cable to connect to a 47 Samsung LCD HDTV with 1080p. Just completed installing and testing this Blu-Ray player and very pleased so far. its been 10 minutes and I still haven t been able to get my movie to re-start. For anyone experiencing buffering issues, check your router and if you have the option of testing another router, do so that will hopefully fix it. After half a year of flawless playback, this can only be the issue of the router. I m about to uninstall and return this new, guaranteed faster speeds router and reinstall my old one. UPDATE: I just upgraded! my router and now have nothing but issues with buffering. Just a quick note on the Netflix side, for those of you who don t currently have accounts, NOT EVERYTHING IS AVAILABLE FOR LIVE PLAY. Just ran a test on my wireless computer and i m at 07mps, so I imagine the wired connection is slightly faster then that. It took less then a minute to load the movie problem child 50 cent instrumental its playing like a champ! I m not using wireless though, so I can only attest to the quality of a wired connection. I was worried that I d encounter buffering issues, but nope. Set-up is super easy, its been less then 20 minutes since I unboxed this and already i m streaming from Netflix. Hopefully this review helped everyone, especially if you ve had this problem but haven t seen anyone else report it. Hopefully it s just a bug in my player and problem child 50 cent instrumental in the next one. I m taking it back to Best Buy to exchange it. Since I own far more DVDs than Blu-Rays, this is a problem for me. It s like a little bump in the sound, but the sound drops in volume for just a split second. However, that annoying little drop in sound really bothers me. The picture on up-converting and blu-ray playback is great in my opinion. After reading reviews online, I noticed I apparently was the only one this happened to. I called Sony and they haven t had anyone report this problem. It would only last for few milliseconds, but for an avid movie watcher, it was annoying. It worked great for a couple of months, but dvds, and occasional blu-ray the sound would cut out slightly every 6-7 minutes. I bought this player after some research to find my first blu-ray player. Otherwise this is really great blu ray player. The playstation 3 allows this, Sony should be more consistent and add features across the line for their devices. I know Sony has the ability to add it in, I just don t know if they will. There is no way to stream ISO s or other videos on your home network to this bluray player.
