Built-in Wi-Fi
Built-in Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n) allows you to connect easily to the internet in order to download and stream BD-Live content such as additional scenes, shorts, trailers, movie-based games, and more. While compatible with most home wireless routers, the BDP-S560 Blu-ray Disc player also supports Wi-Fi protected set-up (WPS) for a quick and easy connection to WPS-enabled wireless routers.

Stream Your Photos Wirelessly
The BDP-S560 features photo streaming functionality, which allows you wirelessly to stream digital photos from your PC or another Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) enabled device to your Blu-ray Disc player, so you can easily view photos on your HDTV.

Dolby TrueHD and dts HD
In the past, most audio codecs used compression that actually removes some sound data to transmit audio from the disc to the audio circuitry. This means that what you hear is a subset of the original audio. However, newer formats allow the audio to be compressed, but not discarded, allowing the original audio to come through once it has been decoded. This player allows you to stream the audio out via HDMI to a capable receiver.

BD-Live Technology
BD-Live Technology allows you to download and stream bonus content such as additional scenes, shorts, trailers, movie-based games, and more. And with Bonus View, you can enjoy “picture-in-picture” capability with select Blu-ray titles. External memory is required (sold separately).

Quick Start Mode
Quick Start Mode lets you begin operating your Sony Blu-ray Disc player approximately six seconds from the time it’s powered on.

Precision Cinema HD Upscale circuitry
Precision Cinema HD Upscale circuitry delivers accurate and vivid images with clarity and detail faithful to the source — whether film or video (upscaled image quality will vary). This circuitry uses advanced conversion and processing to detect image changes at the pixel level, rather than at the level of whole scan lines. Separate algorithms are also used to process the moving and still parts of an image, resulting in sharp backgrounds with moving objects that are free from motion artifacts.

24p True Cinema technology
24p True Cinema technology lets you watch films at their intended 24 fps (frames per second), the way movies are shot and mastered, so you can enjoy cinematic picture quality.

REGULAR PRICE: $299.99
BEST PRICE: $199.95

THE PROS:
Sony’s BDP-S560 has great video quality and supports 1080p/24 playback on blu-ray discs. It has internal audio decoding of Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio. These HD formats can be transmitted in bitstream form via HDMI. It is a Profile 2.0 so it supports BD-Live content and Bonus View. Access to these features are made easier with built-in Wi-Fi wireless network capabilities (802.11a/b/g/n). And it can stream photos from any DLNA compatible devices. Also has a Quick Start Mode that allows most Blu-ray discs to start within seconds.

THE CONS:
Unfortunately, the BDP-S560 does not have multi-channel analog audio outputs. So if you have an older A/V receiver, you may want to look else where. No internal memory so a USB device is needed to download BD-Live content. The DLNA function does not support streaming of music or Videos.

THE FINAL WORD:
Sony’s BDP-S560 has all the great features of a good Blu-ray Player. It has 1080p/24 output, giving you great image quality. It has internal High Resolution audio decoding and built-in Wi-Fi. It does not have streaming media features that some other Blu-ray Players offer. If you can overlook this lack of streaming Media Services than the BDP-S560, with its Wi-Fi support and DLNA Photo streaming, would make a sound choice. – Price you should look for when purchasing — Under $250.00

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