Frankly, I was afraid to buy a refurbished unit, but thus far it has surpassed my expectations - just a few minor scratches and missing a manual and batteries for the remote

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.

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

so i took the batteries out, nope, same problem, maybe a problem with the sony

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.

Its compatible alright, but so slow as the be unusable

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)

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

But BD-R and DVD-R work fine