Official Sony BDP-S590 and BDP-390 Thread - Page 90

Thanks HD Hockey Guy, Yes I tend to be specific to the uses of my devices, and my needs. I fully understand if no one knows the answeer, they feel more comfortable not saying anything. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't having technical issues since it didn't only happen just once.

Yes my player and streaming has been a replacement for cable or satellite TV. I can pick my content more specifically, and there aren't any commercials. If i want to rent a movie i tend to use Vudu as i've found them or amazon to have the best selection and service.

Thanks again!

capnlando,

What I do is I take the optical digital out from my TV to the optical input on the receiver. That way I don't have to bother switching anything on the receiver (one input). Any source material (Blue-Ray, Cable, Xbox, Computer, etc.) that I play on my TV will then be transferred to my receiver. Just turn down, or off the TV speakers. If the source material is 5.1, that is what gets outputted to the receiver.
Edited by Precis - 1/15/13 at 10:41am

Precis,

You are lucky. Most TVs forward only stereo from attached devices, providing 5.1 audio only for stations decoded by the internal tuner.

Ok I noticed that every time I watch a 3D movie, the player stops receiving signals from the remote control. The movie continues playing but I can't stop, pause or do anything anymore. So I tried downloading the app on my phone and using that I was able to gain control of the blu-ray player again. At least there is a workaround but has anyone else experienced this before?

Are you using a Plasma TV? Plasma TV in general give out more IR interference than other TVs. And 3D Plasma TVs interfer even more. If that's the case, you might try reposition your player to see if it helps.

I've noticed both my wireless router and wireless speakers both get interference from my plasma so I moved them each an extra 3-4 feet away from the TV and now I get no interference on either. Good advice to just keep everything away from them if possible.

Sorry, I forgot about that. If you are able to return the 390 and upgrade to the 590, that is worth considering to get the optical out.

You could try to use the optical out from your TV to feed the home theater system. However, as Selden Ball mentioned,it may not be possible to get discrete surround under this configuration (it depends on whether your TV will pass on the AC3 and/ or DTS core from your player).

Another option would be to purchase a coaxial to toslink converter.
Edited by Vampidemic - 1/15/13 at 1:03pm

Thanks. I have a Sharp Aquos lc60le632u if that helps you help me

Would suggest either trying it yourself to see what happens and/or looking for an official thread for your display on AVS and post a question there about its ability to pass through surround over optical from a Blu-ray player. For most TVs, the answer is. 'No ' as far as I am aware.

Your TV outputs both PCM and Dolby Digital via the optical out per the manual page 31.

https://d1vofmza27mmhi.cloudfront.net/product-pdf/sharp-lc60le632u-use-and-care-manual.pdf

The S590 often is available for about $10-$20 more than the S390.

Another option is to get an RCA coax to optical converter. They're typically about $30. EG. http://www.amazon.com/Cables-Go-40018-Coaxial-Converter/dp/B0002J2MV4

This means that it can output Dolby Digital from the TVs built in tuner and/or other built in sources. The question is whether the TV will pass surround from the Blu-ray player when connected via HDMI, especially if playing a disc with a DTS soundtrack. Most Blu-ray discs seem to have DTS HD-MA soundtracks and most TVs do not have DTS decoders. This will likely cause the BD player to send a stereo PCM signal to the TV.

Actually I'm using a projector. But I do have a Logitech 605 remote I use for my Onkyo receiver

Sounds like unless you are using the tuner to output Dolby Digital, any other external device will be outputting Stereo PCM regardless.

Edited by HD Hockey Guy - 1/16/13 at 7:16am

Netflix freezing on Sony BDP-S390, error tvp-851

Hi, is anyone else seeing constant freezing of streaming on this Sony player or similar? My broadband tests at above 10Mbps, I get the same problem connecting wired or wirelessly, and streaming to my laptop is no problem. The unit worked fine for about a month, I just have streamed around 100 shows/films without any glitches, but now it's so bad it's pretty unwatchable. Netflix tech support were very helpful but ultimately thought the issue was with the router/ISP, however I don't agree because using the laptop is fine.

My current theory is the BDP-S390 isn't clearing its cache memory and so can not forward buffer the stream at all, hence any slight drop in the broadband shows up straight away. Any thoughts? Anyone know of a way to flush the memory?

I'm assuming they had you turn off the modem for 10-15 minutes and reboot then reboot router (my first fix whenever I get whacky issues with my network).

Do you have ip slots reserved for your network devices? Maybe revoke that reservation and assign a new address? Do you do any advanced network administration with priority for traffic to your devices? I seriously doubt the memory of the player is the issue and if you power off the player and unplug it for a few seconds it should clear the memory.

Does your projector has an IR emittor to send out 3D sync signal to your 3D glasses? Newer TVs like Samsung now switched to use RF instead of IR to send out sync signal for glasses.
Otherwise, I suspect your player is defective. There is no way any manufacturer will design a product this way.

I'm with the Netflix support on this. It looks like your ISP problem. Bandwidth test means absolute nothing for line quality. When was the last time you did some simple ping test to outside sites? There are also tools online to help test your ISP line quality for dropped packets and excessive lags.

For your laptop (I assume it is a PC), it runs a different player (Siliver Light) and can stream SD only in most cases. Only the Windows 8 Netflix app can stream HD. So that comparison is not valid.

Vamp, I doubt the TV will (pass surround from the Blu-ray player when connected via HDMI). Capnlando, not to seem judgemental about your Sony home theater system, but I think now that you've added Blu-ray into the mix, it's limiting your overall experience and isn't well-matched to the capabilities of your TV and BDP. The home theater system looks pretty basic and easy to set up and use for enjoying DVDs and listening to SACD. And in that case, you don't need the TV to do any audio processing; it's done right in the home theater unit.

You're also able to use the home theater unit as a 5.1 receiver for watching TV, which is OK since the TV can handle the DD processing and output it to the home theater via the optical out. DD is the best you can get from most TV sources anyway.

But if you want to watch Blu-ray (and take advantage of DTS-HD MA) and/or use the BDP to stream HD content from the Internet, you're better off getting a 5.1 AVR with AV switching and relegating the home theater unit to another room or Craigslist. I love my Onkyo TX-NR509, which you can get for just north of $200 on eBay. Or scan the local or online classifieds, look for open box deals at BB, etc. to see if you can do better. I imagine the Sony speakers that came with your home theater system will work with a standard AVR. If they use special connectors just snip them off and replace them with banana plugs.

My .02

The web Netflix player can stream 720p for anything the Win 8 app can play in HD. (Lots of titles which are HD on embedded players are only SD on PCs; it was running about 20% of all HD titles, but you can't get a count of HD titles in Netflix's web browser any more).

Searched the thread, Sony site & googled, but couldn't find an answer to this...

Recently got a BDP-S390 (Australian model, latest firmware), and was trying to play video files off a 1TB 3.5" powered external HDD, connected via USB. The extHDD is formatted with 3 partitions, the first is FAT, and the others NTFS.

Problem is, only the FAT partition is visible as far as I can tell. Other devices such as WD TV Mini Media Player and Topfield TRF-2100 PVR can happily access all 3 partitions. I'd prefer to use the Sony, as it has better video format support than the WD Mini, and I'd expect the interface to be better than the Topfield which is decidedly cumbersome.

Is this a limitation of the Sony? Any suggestions (other than "reformat as one drive")?

Great thanks, turning down the quality in my streaming preferences has fixed this issue, so it looks like my broadband really just wasn't good enough to cope with the "Ultra HD" stream. Netflix tech support could have maybe suggested this, but all's well that ends well.

I was thinking about picking up the S590, however Sony unveiled their 2013 line up. Do you guys have any suggestion if I should wait for the newer line to release? If I were to wait, I would probably get the top of the line model with 3D, as long as it isnt too expensive. I do not have an immediate need so I am willing to wait. I am really more concerned about PQ. Do you think the newer models will have better PQ based on the specs released so far?