It's a sleek, snappy system that never lags or struggles with any media you throw at it, from disc or USB. I haven't tested streaming from a home network as I don't have one, but I imagine it's not as good as Plex, but decent in a pinch.

Lack of streaming apps is a little odd, you only get the pre-installed Netflix, Prime, and YouTube. Sony used to offer a whole app ecosystem for their players, but maybe they want you to buy one of their smart TVs to get that stuff these days ðŸ'„

Note that Dolby Vision has to be enabled manually in the Settings menu per-movie. My TV only supports HDR10, which is fully automatic, so this doesn't concern me.

The unit has an automatic power-off if you don't interact for around 30 minutes, even if you're paused in the middle of a movie. I've found no option to change or disable this setting. It also cannot remember your place and pick up where you left off (no Blu-ray player I've ever used has this functionality, though it seemed standard in the age of DVD, why have we lost this?).

And lastly the remote has no backlight. Kind of annoying, but not a dealbreaker.

I love the Bluetooth support, as I live in a house full of other people and it allows me to watch movies on our big 4K TV without bothering everyone else. Even supports LDAC for lossless quality!

Make sure when you order that you tell Amazon to put the damn thing in a box, they tried to ship it to me in the bare retail packaging until I specifically chose the option to make them put it in a cardboard box. You don't want this thing laying around on your porch for all the world to see!

This was one of those Black Friday (2019) deals that if you can afford it, you really shouldn't miss. This model has a feature that automatically gives it 4 stars: Bluetooth. It's a primitively basic implementation of BT, but it works. It works with ALL my BT headsets. Here are some of the reasons I call it "primitive":

1. Only one BT headset can connect at a time. This kind of sucks if two people want to watch a movie together.

2. Even if the headset supports multiple audio sources, in order to be used with the Sony, the headset must first be disconnected from every other device before being connected exclusively to the DVD player and nothing else. That means, if a call comes in (and I hear the phone ringing over the movie soundtrack), I have to pause the movie manually and talk over the phone or the speakerphone. Unnecessary pain-in-the-butt, especially when you are as deaf as me. Sony could easily have added more BT features.

ANYHOO, the picture from this disc player on our relatively new Vizio M-Series 50" Quantum Dot TV is extraordinary. My wife and I have never in our lives owned a better video system. We do not have a sound system anywhere near the capability of this disc player, so I cannot speak to that. It sounds just fine (again, better than our old Samsung) over our existing speakers.

We have had the opportunity to use the Ubp-X800M2's Dolby Vision and it is just incredible. I've never really had a chance to see this for myself, but now I have. I am genuinely impressed. I imagine I will grow used to it, and eventually take it for granted, but it's been a couple of months, and I'm still shocked when I turn on the television by how good it looks. The only thing is, only some 4K blu-ray disc work with Dolby Vision, and if you play a Dolby Vision disc, you have to manually switch the Dolby Vision feature "on" via the player's software settings. More expensive players switch it on automagically. Still, I have read online reviews that said that having the option to switch it on and off is a good thing. I don't remember why they thought that.

Anyway, once again, we bought this at a pretty large discount, about 33% off. It's much faster at loading discs than our old player (probably three or four times as fast, if not more), and the fast-forward and rewind functions are actually more useful than our old 4-head VHS player (which we could never really say about any DVD players we've ever owned until now)!

I bought this player after reading reviews about its nice build quality and very good picture and Sound Quality. While I was unboxing it, I was quite amazed at how much this thing weighed (about 8 pounds). Once I hooked it to my Samsung 40" 4k smart tv and got it configured. I was glad to see how great the picture and sound quality were. So far, I have played about a handfull of bluray discs and they played flawlessly. I have not tried 4k discs quite yet, so I don't know if I will experience skipping/freezing as some reviewers have mentioned. There are quite a few settings in the setup menus for picture, sound etc. The user interface and home screen are not the prettiest by any means, but they get the job done! One thing that I found with this unit that most players don't often include are compatibility with SACD and DVD-Audio.
I have not tried those features yet! Also, this player features bluetooth connectivity, which is not a common feature with many bluray players. I have not yet tried this feature out either. The remote control that came with the player is far from being the best, but it isn't the worst remote that I've used either! While I do like most things about this player, there are a few things that I will mention that could be better. With this model being Sony's flagship disc player, they should have added a front panel display. Also, according to some other reviews there should be auto-detect for Dolby Vision. The networking features in this player are quite limited. Only three streaming apps. It is hard to judge this player mainly on that since most players from other brands nowdays have that amount or fewer apps. Since the player is connected to a smart tv, (that has more app options than I can count) I will not be using this unit for its streaming apps. In addition, I was encountering some error messages when trying to operate the network features. I don't think that the errors are unique to this model because I've experienced the same kinds of errors on other Sony models that I have used.

I do highly recommend this player for its excellent picture and sound quality and wide disc compatibility. However, I recommend that the connected tv be used for streaming internet content, if it has those features.

Overall, a very nice machine made by Sony!

Researched various mid-range players and decided to go with the Sony 800M2 model. Being forwarded about having to manually enable Dolby Vision, we have found that extra setup step not to be an issue. The player operates as expected, providing an outstanding 4K UHD picture (Dolby Vision is likewise eye popping for those discs that support DV). Dolby Atmos sound comes through via the Dolby TrueHD codec on our setup.

Setup was easy. We used a single HDMI cable into the back of our Sony Bravia OLED tv. We did see some annoying audio/video mismatch which was solved by replacing the older HDMI cable with an uprated high speed Monster cable. Likewise we had to change the tv's hdmi port setting from Standard to Enhanced to accommodate the higher bandwidth requirements of the 4K UHD and Dolby Atmos signals.

Operating and navigating through the user interface is about as simple as it gets. Aside from the Dolby Vision toggle, we've left all other settings as-is. We don't use the player's built-in streaming apps, preferring our Roku player instead. FYI, other reviewers have complained about the player's apps not supporting Dolby Vision (?).

Other reviewers have complained about freezing and/or stuttering picture during playback. We have now played 5 of the 4K UHD Blu-ray Discs (all sourced from our local public library) and can report we did experience freezing on 3 of them (2 others played flawlessly). The freezing issues always occurred in the same spot on a particular disc, but none of the 3 froze in the same spot as other reviewers have complained about (eg always freezing on a later chapter or xx minutes into the movie). Further investigation of the 3 problem discs showed a variety of both scratches and fingerprints on the playing surface. The 2 no-problem discs were free of all markings. From this info, I've concluded the freezing we experienced was due to disc defects (scratches, fingerprints) and not an inherent flaw with the player itself.

Like others have noted, it would be great if Sony would make the player auto-detect and enable Dolby Vision vs. the current manual activation now required. Aside from that one well documented item, this player is well worth the price.

Always have had good luck with Sony products.