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(70 customer reviews) 64 of 65 people found the following review helpful
Tons of Features in this little guy,
September 2, 2011 Just Me "Customer" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Philips BDP3406/F7 1080p Blu-Ray Disc Player - Black (Electronics)
So far so good after I went to Philips site and ran the latest update. For the price I don't think it can be beat.
Pros:
-Bluray plays 1080/24 flawless.
-Love that this thing supports USB playing videos. Running all my avi files perfectly.
-Netflix is fully functional and complete. It brings up by genre, instant and you can search.
-Vudu is up but I haven't used it
-Beautiful upconversion of my old dvds.
- Region Free Hack available for this model
bd region code: A
dvd region hack
to check the current region
1.power on with no disc inside
2.press home
3.enter 8520
1.power on with no disc in tray
2.press home
3.enter 1389310
dvd region code: 0
Cons:
- Ocassionally Netflix signal drops out on me when running wireless or it searches for wifi signal when I know my wifi is strong.
- Ads are deceiving. It states 8" depth and wifi(most would think internal wifi),...Read more
24 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Great Player! Works Wonders!,
November 27, 2011 Keltic - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Philips BDP3406/F7 1080p Blu-Ray Disc Player - Black (Electronics)
I received this player for my birthday from my wife and it came on November 23, 2011. When I opened the box and got it all set up, I was amazed. The start-up was relatively fast, and automatically turned on my 47" Vizio HDTV and turned it to the correct input which was HDMI-1. That was a pretty neat feature.
I decided to look for the supposedly included wifi Dongle, but it was nowhere to be found. I looked online and a few others seemed to be having the same problem such as Dalistylin. I was a little frustrated and almost contacted Amazon, but realized it was the day before Thanksgiving and I would just wait. I decided to play around with the wifi settings anyway and to my surprise, the wifi was actually built-in. It picked up my internet connection no problem.
I decided to take it home to my parents house for the weekend and tried their wireless connection as well. No problems from the other side of the house with their Qwest (Century Link) wireless router - 4...Read more
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
OK at the right price,
December 19, 2011 DynacoBill - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Philips BDP3406/F7 1080p Blu-Ray Disc Player - Black (Electronics)
The previous reviewer was right on when he complained about the remote. It is just plain awful and extremely irritating to use. Trust me, navigating thru Netflix or Vudu selections with this remote will drive you nuts. Other than the remote the player does it's job fairly well...blue ray discs look sharp,up-sampling of DVDs is good and the WiFi seems to work fine (on my unit it was built in). Also the player is ridiculously easy to set up. My compliments to Philips for the intelligence of the product in this price range. Unfortunately all these pluses are more than offset by the terrible remote, which of course is required to perform just about every function.
In short this is not a bad player if you can get it for less than $70 bucks. I would not pay more. This is really too bad as this is not a bad player, but the remote cheapens the enjoyment of the product.
