Sony S1700 / S3700 /S6700 Blu-ray players
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Best Buy has them now. The BDP-S6700 is due out in the Spring. It looks to be about the same as the 6500, but it will feature wireless AC. That's about the only difference I've found. The 1700, 3700, and 6700 look nearly identical to the 2015 models if you research them on Sony's website.
I looked and compared them to last year's models. I went with last years after all said and done.
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Wow. Guess I was early to the party. I received my BDP S3700 from Amazon Feb 28th. Anyway, I watched a Blu Ray, and since then only used it for Netflix and Pandora. Now, when I try to eject the Blu Ray, it says child lock won't allow function. Child lock is not turned on. I even restored the machine to factory settings, still won't eject because child lock is enabled. Anyone else have this problem, or have better luck finding a solution?
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The manual describes how to turn off child lock.
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Thanks so much. The manual does, in fact, tell you how to operate child lock. Weird feature not available in "settings". The first thing I did was search the internet. Seemed to be a common problem.
Anyway, if anyone else runs across the problem, to toggle the child lock for the disc tray, press (in sequential order) "Stop", "Home", and "Top Menu".
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The Sony site specs does list 24p True Cinema and DVD 24p Output as features. It doesn't say anything about streaming, though. I read in another forum that all Sony Blu Ray players 2015 and newer display content in 24p when the source is 24p.
https://www.sony.com/electronics/blu-ray-disc-players/bdp-s3700/specifications
Yes, I am aware that the device supports 24p in general. However, support for 24p in streaming services on Sony devices depends on the service. In the 2015 models, 24p is supported for Amazon streaming but not for Netflix, which is why I returned my 2015 Sony player.
I would like to see if someone who owns one of these 2016 devices can confirm if Sony added 24p support to Netflix as well. If they did I will probably buy one.
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I own the device (3700). How would I know if it is supported?
Edit: I chatted with customer support, they confirmed the S3700 does support Netflix in 24p. The customer service chat is handled by a third party, though. Don't know what information they are privied to that I can't access on Sony's site.
Sony support also told me last year's model supported it but they were incorrect. Only Amazon supported it.
To check you need a TV that support 24p input (most 120Hz and above sets for example do) connected to your bluray via HDMI. Then you need to play a recent movie from The Netflix catalog and check the info. menu on your TV for the refresh rate (my Samsung TV will actually display the refresh rate automatically anytime a source refresh switches the refresh rate). Most movies and many TV shows on Netflix are in 24p. Netflix also used to have a bunch of sample clips specifically for 24p, they all have 23.976 in the name of the clip but I noticed that they no longer show up when you do a search in Netflix although you can get still get to those titles if you do a google search for "Netflix example 23.976".
When playing titles off of Amazon I believe it just switched to 24p automatically on the fly. I didn't think I had to do anything to enable it but it's been a while (like I said, I retuned my 2015 player after finding out that contrary to Sony support, it won't play Netflix in 24p).
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My wifi is inferior. Only downloads at about 30mb/s. My family room has a brick wall with a small glass door between it and the wifi router.. Even HD video I'm streaming is only coming in at 480. I'm the wrong guy to ask.
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Nevermind. That is how its supposed to work, but her I am now, trying to get that ExMachina BluRay out of my machine (confident because when I pressed, in order, "stop", "Home", and "top menu", It said "child lock was disengaged. Unfortunately, I didn't check that until tonight, when I wanted to put another disc in. Still says lock is engaged. Can't open the tray. Never buy this bluray player ever. Total piece of ****. Absolute waste of $92, including tax and shipping on Amazon.
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I have 5 days left to return that player, and I'm doing it tomorrow.
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It seems good enough for streaming video and music, but it stole my disc. Won't give it back, no matter what (don't want to force it), and I obviously can't put another one in.
Hi,
thanks for the post! I found that info on the web, too, since it isn't included in the meager set-up instructions that came with my player and had to be found by going to the Sony support site and the actual manual downloaded.
But when I tried it, after a message saying that "Child Lock has been disabled" pushing the "eject" button resulted in the locked tray warning message and tray would not open. I posted more detailed info in another thread that you can see here: http://www.avsforum.com/forum/149-blu-ray-players/1862698-sony-s1500-s3500-s4500-s5500-s6500-blu-ray-players-56.html#post42520721 - it's in post #1669 in that thread.
To make a long story short, had the same problem with THREE Sony BDP-Sx500 models: the first one I bought, a BDP-S3500; the next two were replacements sent to me by Sony after going through their Customer Support phone troubleshooting where they determined that the players were defective and, since the original was still under warranty, they sent me those BDP-S5500s as replacements, but all had the same problem!
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What I did - after searching the web for info - was to unplug the unit for about a minute then, while plugging it back in, hold the Power and Eject keys in at the same time and the tray opens, at least long enough to retrieve the disc...sometimes it closes by itself almost immediately, so you have to be quick! Good luck! Let me know if that worked!
The highest 1080p stream that Netflix supports is 5.8mb/s. Even if you have a 1000mb/s connection it doesn't matter, Netflix still won't send you anything higher than 5.8.
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In that case, its just hard to find anything on netflix that streams in 1080. I managed to find one or two movies, but the display did not indicate it was playing in 24p, but it does when watching a bluray.
Looking for another bluray player.
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