Official New Sony S370/S470 Owners Thread - Page 6

From the e-mail you received:


OK so what the heck? DLNA won't be coming via firmware in July?

How's the DVD upscaling? I know Winston said the BD65 was really nice and that the S470 was a bit softer, do you see the difference?

good question. I dont think I see a major difference.
I picked up the 370.
Jacob

That's my question. The Sony website was updated for the 370 and 470 (have not checked the 570) so that the DLNA support footnotes says it is coming in a July 2010 firmware update. Sony needs to get this story straight.

Since it was advertised/sold as supporting DLNA, I'm returning my 470 until they do get their story straight. I want to see the working 3D (via HDMI 1.3) firmware update as well. Selling "footnotes" on unfinished products is weak - not delivering on them is simply false advertising.

Maybe you guys can help me with my situation, i bought the S470 a bit ago now and am trying to setup the netflix streaming to my TV through it (setup the free trial) i have gone onto my computer and setup my "instant watch" list but they are not becoming available on the 470, it just keeps telling me to go to the computer and add instantly watchable movies to my queue.

am i forgetting something? turning on a feature?

TIA.

Did you set up your account with the internet.sony.tv site? Did you then get the 4-digit code to activate via Netflix? The Blu-Ray should have walked you through those steps. Streaming Netflix on the 370 is working fine for me after I did those two. Also note that it's called the "Instant Queue" on Netflix's site for me.

Yup, did all that, registered the player via sony's site, then connected the player on netflix, and it all flowed perfectly as if it was ready to work. when it prompted me to add movies to my instant queue however, it never changed again. i went to netflix, added movies to my instant queue but they never became available on my S470. I tried restarting the player, tried logging in and out of the netflix account, moving around the movies, etc and nothing.

EDIT, tried it today and was successful, i guess it just needed some time and things reset to get it all up to speed.

Is anyone using the Apple app to control their player? If so, can you also control other devices (such as a receiver/projector/etc) via HDMI CEC?

Thanks. It's works.
What kind of broadband Internet connection do you have for streaming?
Mine is AT&T DSL. It claims to have 3Mbps, but actual speed is about 2-2.5Mbps. WHen I stream youtube, it's kind of choppy most of the times ( buffering/waiting, etc).

I just pulled the trigger on the 370. I had to choose a blu ray player this week and had been looking at the Panny BD65 and LG BD550, but there were more positive reviews for the Sony 370 at Best Buy than anywhere else, and waiting for expert reviews was not an option. I'll post again when I've tred it out. For me picture quality and sound are most important and not all the bells and whistles.

I hear ya. I'm pretty close to getting the 370 myself. Fry's has a great price on it this week and I have a $100 Visa gift card around from x-mas to help with the cost of a new BD player

Saw the "Sony BDP-BX37" player at my B&M Costco today. I researched it, and apparently it is the BDP-370 with an included HDMI cable. I believe it was about 10 bucks cheaper than list price, if I recall correctly.

My research suggests the item number at Costco is 937410, if you need to call your store for availability and/or a price check.

Wanted to pull the trigger, but I'll wait until DLNA is operating properly via a firmware update.

Yeah I just saw that this morning while looking around at what new items the warehouses around me got in. If you click Locations on their main page and put in your zipcode it gives a list of nearby Costco's. Click on the specific name of one and it will take you to the information about that warehouse, from there is a link available to click called "New Items In the Warehouse." It lists new things they got it in this week. The Sony is in for most stores, as is a Samsung BDC5500C. No pricing info, just stock numbers.

Both are $159.95. I saw them at my local costco.

Good price, that's basically the sale price of the 370 at Fry's plus $9.95 for an HDMI cable I wonder how the quality of the cable is?

Anyone find a good price on the new Sony bdp-s470?

Call Modia Theater - they gave me a killer price on the 470 for pre-order.

I'm running around 6Mbps (supposed to be closer to 10Mbps, need to troubleshoot a few things before calling RoadRunner to come out...). HD Netflix and Amazon VOD is pretty good. Every now and then I get a warning on Netflix about connection quality and it drops down to something pixellated, but when it's running full-tilt at the 6Mbps picture quality is pretty good, rivalling and often better than what I got with TWC's HD OnDemand offering (which had lots of issues with high-action scenes).

My biggest issue is getting used to stereo instead of 5.1 sound in the living room. But for movies where that matters, I'm either buying the Blu-Ray or getting it from Netflix.

3 Mbps is not enough to stream HDfrom Amazon/Netflix. Minimim is 6 Mbps, recommended 10 Mbps. The bitrate on the Netflix HD movies goes from 2 to 5 Mbps during the movie. Many people with not so high speed connection thinks they are getting the HD movie but actually they get only a downrezz stream, since Netflix adjusts the bitrate.

FYI: The Sony Wi-Fi adapter (UWA-BR100) has finally shown up on sonystyle for $80 to add Wi-Fi to the 370/470.

http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/...52921666131651

Amusingly it lists the 570 as compatible, but of course it has Wi-Fi built in already...

So the s370 $179 retail plus $80 for adapter = $259 or you can just buy the
s570 with already built in WiFi for $249 retail and save $10 bucks.

Yep, not really a great deal. I guess if you got a 370/470 and didn't realize you needed Wi-Fi you could go this route.

After checking a few of the bigger Web sites I ended up ordering one yesterday directly from SonyStyle.com. It was $199 and no shipping and no tax. They shipped it yesterday via FedEx. The Web prices were all at $199 and my local BB wanted that same price, so what the heck, I ordered it from Sony.

Hope this helps!

I've read the whole thread and couldn't find anything on the 470 having Pandora? Any help would be Great!

A quick check of the item at the SonyStyle.com Web sites shows that it does support Pandora!

Quote: Instantly stream a wide variety of movies, TV episodes, videos and music from a large selection of entertainment apps including: Netflix®, YouTube™, Pandora™, Slacker® - the list goes on and on...."

I believe that comes with an asterisk. Pandora may be supported down the road via a firmware upgrade.

Thanks a lot just what I wanted to hear, I can wait for a firmware for Pandora. I had the LG BD550 for 4 days it locked up 3 times to where I had to unplug it, would not connect to get a firmware update, Netflix and Pandora worked great, but youyube would not connect, and Tech supports SUCKS! Now for a Sony!

For those of you who haven't been over to winstonreviews lately, he's received confirmation that dlna WILL be implemented in July.
Thanks to winston9232 for checking on this issue as no dlna is a deal breaker for me.

Hello from Germany, (excuse my bad english)

my sony S-370 have artefacts by playing MKV X264 wich are encoded with the "weightedp=2" option.

This is the same Problem that the LG BD-370 have too.

I hope Sony fix this fast and the DLNA option too.

Regards

Picard007