Blu-ray Players / Sony
Sony BDP-S1700U
The cheapest current disc player from a major brand — 1080p only.
Overall score 5.4/10
Pros
- + The cheapest way to play discs from a brand that still supports its hardware
- + Boots in under a second, which sounds trivial until you use a slow player
- + Genuinely tiny and draws almost no power
- + Replaced both the BDP-S3700 and the old UBP-X700 in Sony's line
Cons
- − 1080p only — no 4K UHD Blu-ray support at all
- − No Wi-Fi, so streaming needs a cable
- − Single HDMI output with no separate audio out
- − No SACD or DVD-Audio
- − Sony does not publish which streaming apps are included
Sony BDP-S1700U review: what the specs say
The cheapest current disc player from a major brand — 1080p only. At $114.99, Sony's 2025 model sits among the cheapest we cover — the blu-ray Players we compare run from $114.99 to $3,299.99. It scores 5.4/10 overall, calculated from published specifications across 8 categories rather than from a subjective impression.
Its strongest showing is Value at 8.0/10 — performance and features relative to price. The weakest is Connectivity at 4.0/10, which is the trade-off to weigh before buying: if that is the specification you care about most, one of the alternatives below will serve you better.
Worth knowing before you buy: 1080p only — no 4K UHD Blu-ray support at all; and no Wi-Fi, so streaming needs a cable. Every specification on this page comes from Sony's own documentation or a verified retail listing — where a figure is not published, the table says so rather than estimating it.
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Full Specifications
| Disc Formats | Blu-ray, DVD, VCD and CD, plus recordable variants. No 4K UHD Blu-ray and no SACD |
| HDR Formats | None — this is a 1080p SDR player |
| Dolby Vision | No |
| SACD Playback | No |
| Audio Formats | Dolby TrueHD and DTS lossless support; Atmos and DTS:X passthrough is not confirmed |
| HDMI Outputs | 1 |
| Analog Outputs | None — coaxial digital audio only |
| Streaming Apps | Wired streaming apps are present, but Sony does not publish the app list |
| Upscaling & Processing | DVD upscaling to near-1080p |
| Network | Ethernet only — no Wi-Fi |
| Region Free | No — Blu-ray Region A and DVD Region 1 as sold |
| Connectivity | HDMI, Ethernet, USB (front), Coaxial digital audio |
| Material | Compact plastic chassis |
| Warranty | 12 months |
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