Bdp S1100 Blu Ray Disc Player
TechRadar Verdict
Selling for a fraction of the toll of Ultra HD Blu-ray players, this polished deck slashes support for that new format and instead offers to upscale your 'old' Blu-rays to 4K quality. Souped-upwardly Bluetooth wireless music streaming worked well, but it doesn't play prissy with iOS devices.
Pros
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Excellent Blu-ray images
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Dual cadre processor
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Dual-ring Wi-Fi
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Great user interface
Cons
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Average build quality
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4K upscaling is overkill
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Cumbersome Bluetooth
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Android devices favoured
It'southward sleek, it's small and it'due south most definitely smart, but Sony'southward latest Blu-ray role player begs a big question: Why hasn't Sony made a machine that plays Ultra Hard disk Blu-ray discs?
Given its moving picture studio arm'southward propensity to button 4K movies, that's something of a surprise, but the Sony BDP-S6700 isn't without a trick of its own – it's inexpensive. Information technology might be one of the last reasonably premium Blu-ray players that doesn't support Ultra Hard disk drive Blu-ray discs.
And since high-finish UHD Blu-ray Players come up with a huge premium for the privilege (we're looking at you, Samsung UBD-K8500 and Panasonic DMP-UB900), its cost might be its best defense. After all, the Sony BDP-S6700 goes for only U.s.$130/UK£150/AU$229.
What the Sony BDP-S6700 does promise from its diminutive 255x39x192 mm, 900g package is 4K upscaling (for those with an Ultra Hd 4K Television receiver), Full HD 3D support (fourth dimension to crank-up that Gravity 3D Blu-ray disc) and wireless music features galore.
Pattern
In dissimilarity to the UHP-H1, the BDP-S6700 has a pretty basic build quality. Seriously, information technology looks neat – all sleek black and shiny (and tiny) – but it lacks the solidity you might expect from a 4K-capable machine. Worrying most whether it would survive a drop is hardly relevant for a machine that's destined to remain stationary, of course, only when discs are going in, out and shaking all about, it all sounds a tad jerky.
The opposite is the instance with the BDP-S6700's software; it boasts a pleasingly shine-looking, easy-to-navigate and fast-working user interface.
Studded with apps for Netflix and Amazon Video, the Britain version I reviewed as well included the likes of Spotify, YouTube, BBC iPlayer, BBC Sport, Dailymotion, Sony Aqueduct, MeteoNews, Green.TV, Need 5, Wuaki, PlayStation Now (the BDP-S6700 also accepts a DualShock Bluetooth controller) and PlayStation Video, amidst others.
The dual core processor and remote, consummate with Netflix button, makes fast piece of work of navigating, and loading apps.
Meanwhile, the rear of the BDP-S6700 features a HDMI output, a coaxial digital output, and a wired Ethernet LAN slot, though there's also a WiFi module on-board (which even offers dual-band 2.4GHz and 5GHz connections). On the front you'll find a single USB slot for playing video, music and photograph files from a pollex-drive.
Features
Although tiptop-of-the-tree in Sony'southward Blu-ray arsenal goes to the unusual 'Hi-Res certified' UHP-H1, which also offers 4K upscaling, the BDP-S6700 sits well in a higher place the Total Hard disk-only BDP-S3700 and BDP-S1700.
Given the popularity of wireless music streaming and Bluetooth speakers in living rooms, perhaps the most interesting characteristic of the BDP-S6700 is its Bluetooth-powered music streaming. Popular, yet derided for its for ofttimes atrocious music quality, Bluetooth has here been beefed-upward by Sony using its own LDAC streaming codec. It'southward essentially Bluetooth, only three times faster, and so three times more data is carried.
Information technology'southward also technically possible to create a unproblematic multi-room music system using the S6700 and Sony'southward SongPal Link app, though you need a bevy of Sony soundbars for that.
For video, the standout feature is 4K upscaling, though just equally important is the BDP-S6700's IP Content Noise Reduction PRO, an algorithm designed to smoothen the jagged edges that are so obvious when low-quality video from the internet is watching on the big screen.
Performance
The BDP-S6700 chucks out sparkling images from Blu-ray discs. Judging the quality of 4K upscaling is never easy since Ultra HD TVs themselves accept like circuitry, but there's no denying the quality is nigh indistinguishable from 'real' 4K.
Colours from Gravity on Blu-ray were rich and bold, and the detail impressively high. It also car-detects 24p footage, which adds more than smoothness.
A tertiary slice of good news is the BDP-S6700'due south 3D compatibility, which may already be considered a 'legacy' feature, merely will be welcome for owners of 3D discs. Hooked-up to a 3D-fix Full Hard disk plasma (most 4K TVs just don't support 3D), the BDP-S6700 delivered clean and depth-consequent 3D images.
Way more importantly than 4K upscaling or 3D, even so, is the BDP-S6700's IP Content Noise Reduction PRO, which does noticeably better the look of low-quality footage; a blast of some ropey-looking videos from YouTube were hands watchable on the large 55-inch screen, and looked improve than when the same footage was watched on the TV itself.
Dive into the settings and for IP Content NR Pro you can choose strong/medium/mild for video or film.
That said, when I turned my attentions to the BDP-S6700's wireless audio features (via the huge Bluetooth button on the remote), disappointment gear up in. Effort every bit I did, I could not get an iPhone to link to the BDP-S6700 over Bluetooth, with the SongPal app offer little assist. However, I did successfully pair some Plantronics Bluetooth headphones as a passive device, and then an Android smartphone for streaming music.
The latter did, at concluding, prove the worth of the LDAC-boosted Bluetooth, merely even the unmistakably expanded mid-range tin can't make up for the fact that what you hear depends on your TV'southward speakers. Unless the BDP-S6700 is fastened to a home movie theatre system, LDAC is of express use.
Source: https://www.techradar.com/au/reviews/audio-visual/blu-ray-players/sony-bdp-s6700-blu-ray-player-1324951/review
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