it does upscale blu ray to 2160p and does a nice job up scaling regular DVDs

I have loved the job this player does, very satisfied for the price

This is way overpriced, it does a good job selling itself but in the end it feel like a $5 blu ray player.

While it does a great job upscaling dvds and playing blu-rays, the player is awful at streaming

This Blu-ray player has an awesome picture, very crisp and colorful, the upscaling was a plus and it does a great job

Pretty impressive but not the very best image or sound quality as my prior Blu-Ray player.

Amazon streaming works only intermittently - bizarrely, the controls stop working even though the movie continues to stream beautifully, with good and clear image and sound.

Its compatible alright, but so slow as the be unusable

Here I can brighten my image (especially useful when displaying 3D images which are darkened by 3D shutter glasses) or modify brightness and contrast on older, low quality DVDs

Pretty impressive but not the very best image or sound quality as my prior Blu-Ray player.

From now on, when I watch Netflix on my Samsung Smart TV, I use the Bluray player instead the smart tv app.

Much easier to use the interface than my stupid smart TV.

This is a great product to have if you do not have a smart TV

Smart TV already have all the function this Blu-ray player has, I barely use it

I have a 4K smart TV and it does have an excellent picture..

Not worth the price

Also the price is AMAZING, this player when new cost $300!

I would highly recommend to anyone looking for a great Blu-Ray at a very reasonable price

The price is very fair considering the quality of the player.

Be aware the only audio is digital coax but you can buy a converter for a cheap price to convert to analog as needed for an older receiver.

And I have to say that contrary to some answered questions here, you CAN disable the upscaling feature easily

Love the features and integrates well with my 4k 70" tv

The biggest complaint is about an annoying "feature" that cannot be turned off

I haven't even used the dvd player part yet but the smart tv features are great

The UI is pretty weird and unintuitive, and, more importantly, there is no way to disable "featured apps

I was hoping for a great image quality, but everything from Blu-ray to terrible streaming is what it does.

As a whole it's so easy to work with this product, everything is well taken care of, and the quality of picture and sound you get from this Blu-ray player is the best in my opinion.

Good quality Blu-ray player that loads apps and movies quickly

Another poster said that 'eventually' the image quality improves during playback -- I played many minutes and did not experience this -- nor would I be willing to lose many minutes of shows to unwatchable video quality

It is very easy to set up, it seems to be made from poor quality material but it is solid and sturdy!!

The worst Sony product I have owned; the worst DVD/Blu-ray player I have owned.

I purchased this mainly to stream netflix and prime video because our "cheap" blu ray player quit working after five years of ownership.

I have an ancient first generation Sony Blu-ray player that still works PERFECTLY.

Nice blu-ray player with wifi connectivity, at a reasonable price.

it was 4k blu ray player, not just an upscale for blurays.

If you are interested in streaming content, this product is absolute JUNK.

This is a wonderful product easy to work with nice remote control

I suppose the product has no problem, it performs as claimed

nice product upscales to 4k and the wifi works flawlessly

So, while it is a nice player, I won’t accept Sony’s dismal product support

The streaming is terrible because the machine can't hold an internet connection

After one month started having some issues when streaming

The streaming of Netflix was great on day one, since it does not work well.

i love it, great picture, great streaming, easy to install ( I am not an electronic geek )

The streaming of Netflix was great on day one, since it does not work well.

There is a dedicated Netflix button that brings you right to that app and a Favorites button for which you can assign favorite apps

Good app switching Works well with paired Sony TVCons:

I am not a big Sony fan after my last Sony Blu-Ray lasted only a short while, but I liked what I saw in the reviews, especially the internet connectivity and the inclusion of the Berlin Philharmonic app. as well as the popular apps, Amazon and Netflix, etc.

Other apps have also crashed it and made it completely unresponsive.

The apps that it does have works well Netflix, Amazon etc, pretty good buffering time and function.

Also, I do not recommend the unit because I found the picture to be disappointing

It's clear that this unit is a total lemon right out of the gate.

Here is the good:The unit is compact and takes up little room.

This is a great unit and fits very well in a small space.

The unit also lost the internet connectivity a couple of times

I especially like the USB capabilities where I can put video recordings I shoot with my camera on a 2TB hard drive, USB them into this player and watch them on my TV (up-converted in resolution to at least 1080P I might add).

Today's current dual-layer Blu-ray disc can only hold 50 gigabytes - as such, there is no official physical storage medium, other than a standard hard drive that can hold TRUE 4K-UHD feature length content, so don't confuse today's DVD's as anything that approaches what is possible.

Connected a hard drive with videos and it plays them fine.

It is 3-D capable, which is one of the first things I tried and was very impressed

then I guess there will be NOTHING to play 3-d Blu-rays as the studios seem to be abandoning us 3-d lovers

The 3-d works well and I dwelling access to streaming sires is very good.

It freezes every day to the point where unplugging and plugging the device has become second nature

Now, on to more important issues for this new S6500: performance is very high for Blu-Ray (regular and 3D), for older DVDs as well as for streaming (Amazon Prime)

I have had 3 that gave disk errors the day they were unpacked so watch out!

Super price and quality, 3-D, 4K ready, great picture, and available apps...

My hope is the problem is the batteries that came with the remote - they are cheapies but even so should last longer than a month.

My hope is the new batteries will solve the problem in which case this review will be devoted to the crappy batteries manufacturers always included with new gear.

Two weeks out of warranty, it burned up, or as good as.

Its fast, it works as it should, doesn't freeze up, my wife loves how easy to operate it is and the netflix button is a great option, we are very pleased

So, I put fresh, premium batteries in the remote, things seem to be fine but I will continue to monitor performance.

do not like the fact that there are no controls on the front and the on light is barely visible

Hated the fact that it played the first DVD for all of about 10 minutes and then began to alternately freeze and skip thru the movie, making it unwatchable.

Its fast, it works as it should, doesn't freeze up, my wife loves how easy to operate it is and the netflix button is a great option, we are very pleased

Two weeks out of warranty, it burned up, or as good as.

Now, on to more important issues for this new S6500: performance is very high for Blu-Ray (regular and 3D), for older DVDs as well as for streaming (Amazon Prime)

The only good thing that I have to say about the experience is that Amazon's returns process is extremely good!

Interface is infuriatingly slow, sometimes the thing just ignores button clicks.

It's unacceptable for this thing to be trash after a year

I think it’s always a good thing to do with Blu-ray players to get the latest compatibility features on these players

This thing is constantly freezing and restarting and I've only had it a week.

Now, on to more important issues for this new S6500: performance is very high for Blu-Ray (regular and 3D), for older DVDs as well as for streaming (Amazon Prime)

For some strange reason, the player requires my password each time it is turned on.

it looks awful at “4k/24p” with a DVD with these two settings the other way for some strange reason

Two weeks out of warranty, it burned up, or as good as.

It uses the Opera web browser, which for some unknown reason has quit incorporating Flash in its Linux version.

But BD-R and DVD-R work fine

I've been a loyal customer for over 10 years and this was the first time calling support where I couldn't talk to someone who speaks English

So disappointed in Sony.. you have definitely made some unhappy customers with that play!!

Sony used to be known for quality and good customer service.

We ended up using it one more time and it did not work did not connect to the internet at all and sony customer service never offer me a solution they never replace, upgrade or return our money so do not buy SONY products at all they have a terrible customer service everything happened since march and event the lady at customer service Offended me by saying i wanted a brand new and different model free of charge and also that it was fair and deserve to be in this situation

Hard-wired, I barely turned the unit when it told me it had a software update to download.

I've heard several opinions that prefer hard-wire over WI-FI--so, I go with people who should know better than I.

This Sony unit works like a charm both wired and wireless.

LAN connection doesn't work Hard wired to the switch and fails to connect

Similarly, you typically expect a "smart" player with a network hard-wired port to be able to connect to streaming services with no problems

Not real thrilled that it does not have any lights not even a power light and its a tad slow bringing up my movie list from my external drive.

There's minor control over your tv with the BD player remote as well, just power, input, and volume, not a

It seems to lose the ability to connect to the gateway at random intervals, and then requires multiple reboots/ hard power-pull resets to get back to happy

But BD-R and DVD-R work fine

Ok, will improve the content level of this later, but one thong RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX that ticks me off is YMTHE STUPID POWER CORD HAS A POWER SUPPLY ADAPTER ON IT.INSTEAD OF

The unit freezes EVERY time it goes through a power up cycle.

It'll connect to my home network just fine, but the internet connection fails each and every time I try

Maybe I didn't spend enough time troubleshooting, but I'm done

This unit just have a difficult time connecting and maintaining Wi-Fi

The movie crashed every time I attempted to stream it to the BDPS6500.

You can even use the built-in Opera browser to scour the internet, though this is a pretty clunky process

Since this update was installed a few months ago, the player has operated flawlessly in all situations (other than the irritating network connection process)

In addition, the process itself is VERY slow -- as it in I had to leave it running overnight before it finally exited the update screen

I also have an Amazon Fire TV which is definitely more responsive and smoother, but the Fire TV is famous for having faster processing than other streamers

Changes can be stored under Custom1&2 settings (as long as you DO NOT have 4K resolution output set when you initially set-up your player).Bottom line: If you can get passed the least attractive AV design to come out of SONY, a very problematic startup/setup process, the S6500 is a very high

It's clear that many others are having the same problem, and this is a sorry response by Sony in dealing with this

But BD-R and DVD-R work fine

It's clear that many others are having the same problem, and this is a sorry response by Sony in dealing with this

Slow button response, so you don't realize it's locked until your are completely frustrated

But the monster that is Sony has screwed the people they are probably trying to please the most yet again - the movie collector

Some people complain about having to purchase a new cable, but think about it; The faster the car you drive, the better the road you want

Many people have this issue and Sony knows about it but refuses to issue an update to its software.

There are so many people on the phone the wait times are crazy