+ very, very quick - needs only 2-3 seconds to start playing a movie from a blue-ray disk
+ can play movies encoded with almost every known codec including div-x and mkv.
+ can play music (cd, mp3) and view pictures
+ any media can be played from an external usb device (memory stick, hard disk, etc)
+ can be connected to internet and play clips from youtube.com
+ can automatically upgrade firmware version
+ quality of played blue-ray movies (picture and sound) is excellent, upscaled DVD movies also look very good
- some of the remote controller buttons are too small or misplaced
- lack of support for WPA data encryption in case of wireless connection to internet