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hi this is ty Pendlebury with a review of the Sony BDP s 5100 with blu-ray players now so cheap and so versatile that they make a great alternative to a streaming player the Sony BDP s 5100 is a decent model that accepts most digital formats and has an attractive menu system as well build wise it's just ok as while it's compact in size the door on our unit wasn't attached very well the player looks attractive though with a dual like finish likewise the remote is easy to use attractive and you won't go accidentally hitting Netflix button like on some others be aware that if you're buying this player for someone else that it only has digital outputs so you won't be able to use it with a CRT the player comes with what the company calls super Wi-Fi but based on my testing it's certainly not faster than a speeding bullet though it may still wear its underpants on the outside the player offers 3d playback in addition to DLNA streaming but there are no fancy screen mirroring features plus the web browser is pretty bad with no flash support streaming video is pretty good though most of these players connections aren't currently fast enough for true HD quality from Netflix blu-ray and DVD quality is very good with a crisp clear picture and while it did fail one synthetic test it's something I didn't see on real world applications at a straight price of $90 the Sony offers good money for money and pretty much all of the apps you'll need this is Ben type enter brief for cnet.com