Chose this model instead of the wireless as decided to hard wire with a cable as more reliable than wireless, even though we have wireless in our home

Hard wiring it to my

Calling Sony customer service was a tedious process of pulling the plug, trying a different outlet, blaming the Ethernet wire and connection, blaming the HDMI cable, blaming the HDMI connector on my TV, etc

From what I could tell, the homescreen is a nice simple layout and the remote is small and fairly simple enough for my older relatives to use, as it was originally intended for a 70yr+ crowd (non-wired would've been great)

no smart TV.This unit works just great with our hard wired internet moden

The only “feature” it has that it is a smart player, although it must be hard-wired to your WiFi network