Sony BDP-S560

Sony BDP-S560 Blu-ray Disc Player

December 21, 2009

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• Latest User Reviews 2 reviews
• Reviewed by: BigNickel

  Duration of ownership: 2 Months

  Strengths: It's a great blu-ray player. Totally compatible with my Sony TV.

  Weaknesses: It's WiFi network connectivity is totally useless. It would be a breakthrough if it were 1999, but it's 2010 and the network connectivity will display photos from my computer!

  Overall: Stupid and misleading network connectivity. Note to Sony - it's the 21st century. 'Network' means 'network'. Unbelievable. No Netflix, no streaming video from my desktop. Incredibly lame. BD Live? Who cares? Are you getting your inspiration from AOL? Let's pretend our lame little corner of the internet IS the internet.

• Reviewed by: Homesteader

  Duration of ownership: 1 Month

  Strengths: Easy set-up. Boots quickly.

  Weaknesses: Does not stream internet video.

  Overall: The Sony BDP-S560 does not stream internet video from any of the popular services (Blockbuster, Netflix, Amazon). The absence of the ability to stream video makes the built in WiFi, nearly pointless (the only use seems to be to access BD Live content available on some blu-ray discs). The less expensive Sony BDP-N460 Blu-ray Disc Player (Black) with a WiFi adapter (Linksys by Cisco WET610N Wireless-N Ethernet Bridge with Dual-Band is preprogrammed to work with the N-460) or a dedicated Roku HD-XR unit stream video from these services over WiFi.

• Reviewed by: edenupg21

  Strengths: Excellent, nice picture, easy set up and connection, BDLive feature it's very good. Upscale regular DVDs to 1080 is amazing. WiFi to playing photo files via network fantastic.

  Weaknesses: No connection directly Netflix and i would like play via network wireless my movie clips and movies from my computer.

  Overall: This device deserve worth the price itself. The Sony products are trustworthy. So if you have TV set Sony it's easy compatible with "control for HDMI". Connection WIFI it was amazing in search of LAN router was easy. So, just took a time setting windows 7 in my computer to share the files with the player.

• Reviewed by: dvdirv

  Strengths: Fast load times, easy setup, wireless connectivity

  Weaknesses: Remote lacking features found in previous model

  Overall: The Sony BDP-S560 is a capable Blu-ray player. This is basically an updated 360 with wireless connectivity for BD Live functions.Sony finally got it right by building wireless connectivity into the player itself. Previously, you needed to have a PS3 or buy a wireless add-on to have this feature. My viewing room is too far away from a wired connection, so wireless was the only way to go.The 560 loads quickly and has most of the standard features you would expect from Sony. Setup was very fast and simple including the wireless feature. You just needed to search for your network and then manually input your password--that was it!The only negative feature I could find was in the 560's remote. Sony took a step backward by offering less features than its predecessor, the BDP-S550. The last remote offered a lighted display. In addition, you had an open/close button which this new player does not offer. Buttons are not clustered logically around the center button . Even the BDP-S350, the former lower end player offered a better remote. Of course for $63 you can buy the 550's remote from Sony and use it with the 560.The Sony BDP-S560 is a good player with the added wireless feature. It could have been an even better player with a decent remote.