Sony BDV-T57 Blu-Ray 5.1 Home Theater System

Had it for 16 months and had nothing but trouble with it. It is a nightmare to set up in the first place but you have to keep going though the process everytime you turn on the home theater, like the speakers have to be set each time and even then you may get no sound. The inputs constantly change and the sound drops out and you have to go back through the menu and try another setting even though you just used that same setting! Everything is proprietary on the precious Sony products even the codes for the remote. Are they secret? Do they just give you a bunch of fake codes? This thing wouldn't even work with the Harmony universal remote. Sure it connects to the internet but all you can get are crappy rip off offers to sign up for this or that to drain more money from your pocket. After the last UPDATE (over the internet) the unit now refused to take in ANY external sources at all.. Now it is just a pile of junk although now it is much improved! I gave it ONE STAR for the box. Just stay away from this and all other Sony products-there really is no support and they don't speak or write English well--and could care less..............................................................

Sony BDV-T57 3D Blu-ray home theater is a great system for the money. Sound is fine for average surround sound home use, woofer works as well. It up scales 2D to 3D, and 3D works fine with my 65 inch MITSUBISHI 3D TV, no problem. My problem is the Wi-Fi is NOT built in but uses a Sony proprietary Wi-Fi wireless adapter that is near impossible to get now that Sony quit making replacements.Speakers too have proprietary plugs so they will not work on other home theaters but plugs can be snipped off and replaced with universal RCA jacks.So the unit gets a 4 star rating for sound and 3D, but a 1 for proprietary greed on the WiFi adapter! Mine went missing and now cannot watch Netflix, a Sony update a few years ago removed YouTube.

Thing thing shut off one day and wouldn't turn back on. I had it less than a year.EDIT: I am editing my review out a sense of fairness because I got it up and running again. I had tried to get it going several times by unplugging the power cord to no avail. Only when I unplugged everything including the wireless antenna did it come back to life.I think the sound is pretty good with this system. But I have a Sony TV and still haven't figured how to sync the remotes. The Netflix and Amazon connection works very well.

There are a lot of bells and whistles on this 3D system. I attached my system to a Toshiba 46WX800 since I knew the internal speakers on an LED system would not give me the theater feel that I wanted. I have had the system for 2 weeks and love it. The system talks to my TV and knows when to turn on the TV when I place in a DVD and keeps the speaker and TV settings for "movie" that you manually set. I used the built-in Netflix everyday and did not see a lag in it. That is done via wireless dongle that comes with the unit. I have not compared the 3D to other 3D DVD units so I don't really know if the 3D is the best. But I will buy one and compare. I do see in 3D with the Toshiba TV attached! The setup of the unit is unique where it has a microphone listening to the speakers and adjusts the unit according to the room in which you have set it up. You do have to update the system when you get it. It is best to update using a WIRED LAN instead of the wireless.By the way, the tags on this are wrong this is NOT a wireless speaker system out of the box. It is a 5.1 surround with ability to go to a 7.1 with sony wireless SRS speakers that are extra cost.This unit is a little less than $300 in both Costco and Samsclub as of Jan 4, 2011. Too bad AMAZON doesn't sell it themselves.

I bought this back when Costco had it for $299, so probably 2011 I'd say? It was right at the time they were selling them out, and I ended up driving to a Costco 50 miles away so I could pick up the last display unit. Kudos to the Costco guy who spent a large amount of time packing everything carefully in a box for me so nothing would get damaged.So far, other than the sound not coming on a couple times (which reboot fixed- likely HDMI error) I've had zero issues with it.I've either used or still use nearly all the features (no more Netflix since I cancelled my acct due to not using it), and paired up with a 73" 3D TV, it really is a lot of fun to use, and people love to come over and watch movies and sports.I'm not sure why some of the reviewers say the bass sucks, as mine will rattle the windows, and the surround speakers are nice and loud with no pops or crackling. The networking feature is great, so I can stream movies and music that I have on my computer. The front USB will play movies off USB flash drives with no lag. I use my DirecTV remote with it, and rarely use the supplied remote unless I'm changing audio settings.It's no $2k system, but for the price, it's outstanding and honestly works better than I'd thought it would. I was pleasantly surprised. I keep it updated and try not to beat the living heck out of it, but when you want to crank it up when a movie is on, it handles it without issue.I was nominated to do audio for my Grandfather's 90th birthday, and all I had was this unit. I packed it up and set it up in a conference room at a hotel and played 40's music through it. Everyone commented on how nice the sound was. Kind of a pain to transport but I was impressed at the large room filling sound.If you can find it, buy it, you won't be disappointed!