Friday, January 25, 2013

Sony BDVN790W Blu-ray Home Theater System
The Sony BDV-N790W 3D Blu-ray Home Theater System lets you enhance the sounds and pictures of your favorite movies using its Blu-ray player and 5.1 channel surround sound with 1000 watts of total power. Now, enjoy your movies with full high-definition visuals and high-fidelity audio. You even have the option of streaming movies and videos straight from the Internet with its Built-in Wi-Fi capability. With the Sony BDV-N790W 3D Blu-ray Home Theater System, there are more ways to watch movies. Playback Format: AVC-HD (3.1 / 4.7") (8 / 12 cm) / (DVD+R / RW / -R / -RW): Yes, BD-R/ RE (BDAV / BDMV):Yes / Yes, BD-ROM (SL / DL): Yes, BDAV / BD-R v1.0 (SL / DL): Yes / Yes, BDAV / BD-RE v2.0 (SL / DL): Yes / Yes, BDMV / BD-R v2.0 (SL / DL): Yes / Yes, BDMV / BD-RE v3.0 (SL / DL): Yes / Yes, CD (CD-DA): Yes, CD-R / RW: Yes / Yes, DVD+R (DL) (+VR): Yes, DVD+RW (3.1") (8cm) (+VR): Yes, DVD+RW / +R (+VR): Yes / Yes, DVD-R (DL) (VR): Yes, DVD-RW- / R (VR): Yes / Yes, DVD-RW / -R (3.1") (8cm): Yes / Yes, DVD-RW / -R (Video): Yes / Yes, DVD-R (DL): Yes, DVD-Video: Yes, Hybrid disc (BD / CD): Yes / Yes, Hybrid disc (BD / DVD): Yes / Yes, Hybrid disc (HDDVD / DVD): No / Yes, JPEG: Yes and MPEG audio: Yes.
With so many on offer these days, it is great to have a name you can trust. This item is certainly that and will be a perfect buy. The distributor have added some great touches and this equals great value.
You can trust this review, i hope you can try to buy this product and then you know this product good or no. Next time you can make a review for another people.

Good but could be better.
Speaker Connections: This unit uses propitiatory plug-ins to the head unit, how ever the speakers them selves use the normal push-tab-insert-wire connection. While I understand why they uses funny custom connections, I suppose you could cut the cord and save the custom plug. I would not consider this a deal breaker.

DLNA: Works as it should, but I really wish it would simply support a network shared folder. But you have to have a DLNA server on your home computer (or compliant device), what a bummer, that just one extra process I need to have running on my server. I have had some audio codec issues Dolby DTS is sometimes trans-coded to base stereo (2.0) or just regular Dolby Surround 5.1. It plays .MKVs good at 1080 and file sizes > 9GB. (I use serviio as my DNLA server on my PC's)

Apps: There are a load of useless apps, and only have a handful of useful apps. Pandora oddly does not have a thumbs up or thumbs down option. I do wish it had Revision 3, but sadly...

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Clean sound, video settings good after tweaking, needs more customizability
Our family has moved into a new condo, and we wanted to upgrade our sound system to include wireless rear speakers, both for aesthetic and childproofing reasons. So this system sat atop the list of HTIBs to get. I've had it up and running for a week or so, and the following are my thoughts.

Set-up:

This was a breeze to set up. The speaker wires have color coded plugs, the rear speaker unit has a wireless dongle which is easy to insert (though why it isn't built in is beyond me) and the onscreen menus for setting up internet functions are user friendly. I can't imagine anyone but the most technophobic having any issues.

Audio: The audio is clean and crisp, and the bass response from the included unpowered subwooferis good. You may not be used to such clean sound, and think it somewhat anemic. My previous (also unpowered) sub had kicked in on everything, which certainly made everything bassy, but I now realize it had muddied things up considerably. Rest...
Went Sideways
Bought this unit May of 2012. It doesn't get a lot of use. I average maybe two movies a week on it. I put a movie in yesterday and it started acting like the video and audio was in slow motion except it was choppy. Tried a couple more DVDs, same thing. Checked for firmware update and it was up to date. I did an online return and sent it out today. I had to send it from Seattle to Texas which cost me $30.00.

I have always been a Sony fan except laptops. This unit is matched up to a Sony big screen that was bought at the same time.

The unit did work very good prior to this issue and was good for what it is.

I will update this as I go through the warranty process.

Got an email from Sony saying they received the unit about five days after sending it. Five days after that 11/15/12 I got an email from tech group saying that nothing is wrong with it. I sent the following response (the first part being what I put on the Sony website for...
Sony BDVN790W Blu-ray Home Theater System Sony BDVN790W Blu-ray Home Theater System
Product Features :
  • 1000W, 5.1 channel, Wi-Fi, 3D1 Blu-ray disc home theater system
  • Premium 2-way front speakers, wireless rear speakers
  • Dual-HDMI Inputs; 1-HDMI output

Rating : 4.1
List Price : $499.99

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