With our collection of blu-ray discs ever increasing, I decided it was time for our family to upgrade from one very old and clunky blu-ray player (other brand) and a DVD player to two blu-ray players. Sony had a great range of reasonably priced blu-ray players available online, so I purchased two - one was this model. I purchased this model because it had 3D capability - although since we don't yet have a 3D TV we haven't used this feature. My husband, eight year old daughter and I have found both blu-ray players easy to use and haven't had any difficulties in playing DVD or blu-ray titles. The design was also much sleeker (and sexier) than our previous blu-ray and DVD players. The only slight issue we have encountered is when switching the TV to our gaming console - often the blu-ray player will turn itself on and start playing whatever is inside. I have to switch the blu-ray player off and switch the TV over to the correct channel again. But really this is a minor issue and I would be keen to upgrade to another Sony blu-ray player (or players) in the future.

iv'e had this player for a while now and have recently up dated to the bdp-s5200 . but the 590 is just a great player not only does it do a good job sound and picture with movies but cd's sound is fab as well plus all the extras via the apps on this thing all the catch op channels of free to air tv you tube crackle plus much more oh and pandora if you find one of these trust me buy it

I have a PS3 but wanted a Blu-ray player for the bedroom. I wanted a player with similar features to what the PS3 does. (Connect to my network and allow me to watch videos stored on it) But I found that the Blu-ray would not play a lot of the videos (even though the PS3 could) but the blu-ray wouldn't let you Pause, fast forward, rewind, or seek. So if you were watching a show and you had to do something you either let the show play or stopped it and had to watch it from the start. Which defeats the point of the player in the bedroom, as I often watch 1/2 the show and feeling tired stop it, then start watching it from where it stopped the next night. Now as I said the PS3 does all this