It would be great if this cleared up my issue of having to unplug the other hdmi so that I can hear sound through my receiver.
At least for me, I think the scaler is better in the player than on my tv, so streamed content looks better for me with the Sony than anything else I have. It did lock up yesterday when I went to skip the intro to a show. It eventually just restarted without me having to do anything.
So what will be next or is all dead
That sucks! I've only had the odd lock up every now and then, and I'm using it almost daily. Wonder why you have so much more trouble than I do Jack.
No idea. Maybe because I use it so infrequently. For the record I have wired directly to my router for updates and never disconnect it. Off the top of my head I can think of 5 times I've had issues. That's not including the problem I had with it when first hooking it up. Also we really never have power outages here. While most of the Houston area was under water I only lost power once for about 20 minutes. Surges, maybe, not sure on that one. It is however the only electronic item I own that's had problems.
Nothing, for now. Most problems are fairly easily remedied. Also I watch almost no movies on it. Since my samsung TV now has the direct TV now app I no longer use it for streaming. That leaves music and concert Blurays. Concerts, let's say once a month. Music, much much less often since going with Amazon music. I find streaming music though Amazon to be just fine for all but the very most critical listening. 80% of the time I listen to music its casual,just simply for my love of music. For me that's still sitting down with the lights down low and doing nothing else. This would probably qualify as critical for most. Critical means a bit more to me.
