Sony BDP-N460 Blu-ray Disc Player (Black)
Sony BDP-N460 Blu-ray Disc Player (Black) see short title
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Experience Blu-ray Disc movies in Full HD 1080p quality with stunning HD sound that supports enhanced audio formats including Dolby TrueHD and dts-HD Master Audio. You can also play and upscale your DVDs to near high definition. Connect to the internet and instantly stream thousands of movies, videos, music and more from Netflix, YouTube, Slacker and other leading content providers with the Sony BDP-N460 Network Blu-ray Disc player.
Experience Blu-ray Disc movies in Full HD 1080p quality with stunning HD sound that supports enhanced audio formats including Dolby TrueHD and dts-HD Master Audio. You can also play and upscale your DVDs to near high definition. Connect to the internet and instantly stream thousands of movies, videos, music and more from Netflix, YouTube, Slacker and other leading content providers with the Sony BDP-N460 Network Blu-ray Disc player. « short desciption
User Reviews
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Review Date: 2009-11-24
I've had this player for several days now. Blu-Ray playback appears to be good, although I don't really have anything to compare it to. But so far its other attributes leave a great deal to be desired.
Netflix playback is especially poor. I waited to buy this unit for its Netflix capability to kick in, and was using the Roku HD player in the meantime. Even with a wired connection, the Sony's Netflix HD content playback is noticeably sluggish and jerky, almost to the point of being unwatchable, compared to the Roku player connected wirelessly to the same router. I watched parts of the same video on each player and the difference is not subtle; it is pronounced.
Also, the upscaled DVD picture on this player is very, VERY soft, almost to the point of looking out of focus, even with the TV's Sharpness setting turned up to maximum. This is in comparison to the Sony DVP-NS700H upscaling DVD player I had been using previously, which appears to have a sharper, crisper image; again, the difference is noticeable.
I'm going to try a few more DVDs and see if Sony and/or Netflix tech support can address the streaming problem, before I give up and return the unit. I had hoped this player would be a nice addition to my BRAVIA setup (46" Z4100 LCD TV), but so far it's let me down.
User: GrafZeppelin127
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Summary: Very poor Netflix performance; overall disappointment so far.
Helpful Votes: 0
Total Votes: 0
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Review Date: 2009-11-23
I'd been putting off getting a blu-ray player because of all the bad things I'd been hearing about them. Well, I'm very happy with this player. It's works great and I'm having lots of fun with it.
No unacceptable slowness. NO HDMI connection problems with my 4 year old Sony KD-34XBR960 TV.
I'm using the coax digital audio to connect to my receiver. The manual states that, the PCM signals, output from the DIGITAL OUT (OPTICAL/COAXIAL) jack, will be output as 48 kHz/16 bit instead of 96 kHz/24 bit if, the source is copyprotected. An HDMI receiver would insure the best sound quality. However, I've been experiencing really excellent sound. I have a huge sound system and really notice the improvement in blu-ray sound. I don't feel a need to get an HDMI receiver.
The only problem I ran into so far was with some 4:3 aspect ratio DVD's. To play these properly you need to set one of the player's settings to "Fixed Aspect Ratio". Although this worked on some DVD's, it didn't work on others. I found that if you just press stop and then play again, it would adjust to the correct aspect ratio. I don't know if this is the player's fault or the DVD. Maybe a firmware upgrade witll fix it. The work around is not that big of a deal anyway.
Blu-Ray picture quality is great, of course. But I was impressed that even DVD's look better. I did not expect this since I already have a couple good DVD players (Oppo and Sony). My TV does a much better job of upscaling than my DVD players. This Sony Blu-Ray Player seems to upscale as good or better that my TV. Very smooth motion and all around picture quality.
User: E
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Summary: BDP-N460 Works Great With My System
Helpful Votes: 0
Total Votes: 0
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Review Date: 2009-11-22
After much research I decided on the Sony BDP-460. Set up was super easy due to reading previous reviews. Hooked it up to Apple Airport express bridging to my wireless network. The N460 went to the internet without any problems, got the firmware update in minutes. Blue Ray disk loaded in 45 seconds.
The image quality is of course unbeatable.
Netflix, Amazon on demand took a few minutes to register -- I had to sign in via computer on both services etc. but once that was done I was good to go.
Having tested both Netflix and Amazon streaming, I much prefer the Amazon signal. The Amazon HD stream is very impressive on this machine via HDMI!
There are a bunch of other streaming services that come with this thing that I haven't even gotten around to testing yet. Overall it's an awesome Blue Ray / Internet media center.
User: Henry Tomasi
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Summary: Awesome Media Center!
Helpful Votes: 2
Total Votes: 2
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Review Date: 2009-11-21
Sony Bravia-Sync made it VERY easy to hook up the Sony BDP-N460 to my Sony Bravia KDL-32XBR6 HDTV. I used Mediabridge HDMI and Ethernet Cables (from Amazon).
The Mediabridge cables came in cardboard boxes that were easy to open and recyclable. Both the Sony BDP-460 and the Sony KDL-32XBR are Energy-Star rated.
Sony recommends buying a Sony USM2GL external memory to "to enjoy additional content (such as BONUS VIEW/BD-LIVE) on certain Blu-ray Disc titles".
It was VERY easy to set up Amazon Video-On-Demand, but it is much easier to search Amazon Videos-On-Demand using a computer than it is to use the "search" function on the Sony BDP-N460. After using a computer to find the video that I wanted to watch, the video was VERY easy to play on the Sony BDP-N460.
The 'search" function on the Sony BDP-N460 uses an onscreen keyboard that is like a touch-tone telephone dial. When searching, you cannot enter more than 19 characters, including spaces. This seems to be a major fault that hopefully will be corrected soon. The onscreen keyboard also does not include some characters that I have used in my various passwords.
YouTube is particularly awkward when using the Sony BDP-N460. Sony should adopt the 15 year old technology used in WebTV and MSNTV2 units. The Sony remote already has all of the right buttons.
User: Roy R. Platt
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Summary: 4 stars rather than 5 stars because of YouTube
Helpful Votes: 2
Total Votes: 2
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Review Date: 2009-11-20
When the price dropped below $200, I jumped and bought this puppy. All the setup went so smoothly.
- It figured out to use 1080i over HDMI for my older Sony TV
- I plugged in my Linksys Bridge which I had unplugged from my DirecTv HR21 moments before, and
it connected to internet without me doing a thing.
- Swapped Optical Audio Cable from my DVD player, and that worked perfectly.
- Updated firmware to v.120; took about 3 minutes
- Tested it with first DVD I ever bought. Batman and Robin, bought 11 years ago. Played perfectly.
- Incredible amount of Trailers, TV and Music available through Internet connection for free
Now to head to Frys and see what Blu-Rays are on sale.
As of Nov. 20 Amazon has large number of Blue-Rays for sale at $10, why stream for $14.95 ?[...]
Only Negative so far is no EJECT on the Remote
User: W. Frank
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Summary: Super Easy Setup for Blu-Ray & Internet
Helpful Votes: 3
Total Votes: 3
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- Plays Blu-ray Disc movies in Full HD 1080p
- Instantly streams online entertainment from leading providers
- Upscales DVDs to near high definition
- BD-Live ready
- Dolby TrueHD and dts-HD Master Audio decoding
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