Sony Blu-Ray

The Sony BDP S370 upscales standard resolutions to 1080p image quality during streaming video or while playing standard DVDs. Online functionality is also included, although a wireless adapter must be purchased separately in order to play videos directly from the internet without the use of a computer. In addition, the player features an Entertainment Database Browser. Using Gracenote technologies metadata service, you will be able to instantly access detailed information about the movies you are watching.
Audiophiles will rejoice as all the new Sony blu-ray players including this entry level model will play the superior sounding SACD. Sony Blu-Ray also comes with audio decoding for the latest high bitrate audio codecs like Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio.
Unique to all new Sony BD players, users with an iPhone® or iPod® touch device can control the players using a free app called “BD Remote” that can be downloaded from the Apple App store. The app allows an iPhone or iPod touch device to function as a remote control that includes the ability to access a Blu-ray Disc’s details such as jacket artwork, actor, and production information as well as search for additional video clips online.

Sony BDP S370

By LosCa (Scottsdale, AZ)

I just went to my local Sony Style store and tested/played with this new BD player (S370 model) and I must say I was/am very impressed! Before looking at the player in person, I was thinking, what did Sony strip down from the previous models (S350 & S360) to make this one thinner and less expensivse? But after going in the store and playing around with this BD player, I was pretty blown away with the quality, quick loading times, looks/size, and price. I actually brought in with me a few discs to try (I brought “The Dark Knight” Blu ray, “Resident Evil” DVD, & also a few burned CD’s & DVD’s just to make sure the player would read them). I wanted to try “The Dark Knight” Blu ray because on my old S350 Sony BD player, the load time for this Blu ray is quite long (about 30-45 seconds). So I first turned off the Sony S370 player, then turned it back on. Start up time was very fast (about 3-5 seconds at most). I hit the eject button, put “The Dark Knight” BD in, closed the tray, and the load time for this player was maybe 10 seconds max! I couldn’t believe how fast it loaded up and began playing the movie ( and “Dark Knight” is a BD that usually takes a while to load up). Next, I put in my “Resident Evil” DVD, to see how fast it loaded & most importantly, how well it up-converted. Load time was obviously extremely fast, since it was fast on a BD, it’s even faster on a DVD (although, not by too much, that’s how quickly the BD’s load up). Now, I purposely selected the older/original/first “Resident Evil” DVD as I knew that the picture quality was not as good. Of course, up-converted, on this older movie, it did not look like a BD would, but nevertheless, it was decent/watchable. Another notable thing to consider here is that Sony had this player hooked up directly to their TV (the new NX800 model) with a HDMI cable (of course). That’s it. The S370 was not connected to a high end receiver or anything (just directly to the TV), so keeping this in mind, if you have a high-end A/V receiver or video processor, the up-converting will end up looking even better! Lastly, the burned CD’s, DVD’s. They worked flawlessly. Again, since Sony didn’t have this player hooked up to a receiver/speakers/etc (just to the TV), I was not able to tell how good the sound quality of the CD was, but I just wanted to be sure the Sony BDP-S370 would play burned discs. The other things I looked at were the menus. Very nice X-Bar menu system (a bit more colorful than before). I was not able to check any of the streaming/Internet options since Sony did not have it hooked up the the Internet (kind of a bummer). I wish Sony had the player hooked up to their network as one other thing I really wanted to try was the iPod touch/iPhone BD remote app. I brought my iPod touch in, but sadly, the player was not connected to the network for me to try this feature out. Because of the fact that I was unable to check out this feature and the streaming/online features, I am unable to give this player the full 5 stars at this point. But for the features I was able to check/test, it passed with flying colors and easily takes the 5 star rating. Hopefully I’ll be able to test out these other features and update this review soon. However, if anyone that actually owns this unit & tries these other features, please let me know.