Toshiba BDX5200 Wifi-Enabled 3D Blu-ray Disc Player

 (10 customer reviews)

I hooked it up with a hard wire connection to avoid network problems. It had difficulty connecting to the network so I tried the manual configuration, but it couldn't even manage this. After being turned off for a few hours it finally seemed to connect. Unfortunately the next couple of times it would not be able to connect to Netflix so I'm sending it back.

In the old days I might have tried tech support and wasted a bunch of time, but these days, we know tech support is likely to be someone with an on line manual in a foreign country who has no product knowledge, so why waste the time!

I am happy with this blu-ray player. No problems with it whatsoever. The picture quality is great on my Toshiba LED LCD tv and the netflix streaming works well also. It has a very clean look to it also since it has the touch screen buttons on the front which are not visible when the unit is off.

I have a Toshiba DVD player from way back in the day that still works extremely well. Because of the success I had with this, when I bought a Blu-ray I thought I would try Toshiba again. Big mistake.

There is, in fact, only a little positive feedback that I can give about the player. I had no problem with the wireless and it does do Netflix pretty well. However, the praise ends there. I got this back in April, and I really tried to convince myself this was going to work out. I got a few firmware updates and I was hopeful at one point.

Major problems:

It seems that I have to go back to the main "Home" menu on the player before I turn it off. If I don't, it will often only half turn off and the only recourse is to unplug the unit for a few seconds. I figured there would eventually be an upgrade that would fix this, so I decided to live with it. Last firmware was 5 months ago, however...I rearranged the plugs on my power strip to...Read more