Customer Reviews

Insignia NS-2BRDVD Blu-ray Disc Player with 1080p Output

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I used to own a Roku and I used it almost every day for my daughter who loves all the children's programs that are available. After about 1and half years the roku broke I did a little research and found out that insignia made a blueray player for $100.00 that would stream Netflix. I got it home, did the software update, which only took 2 min, and started using the streaming video from Netflix. I love the menu for Netflix that insignia created. It was a big improvement over the Roku. The only thing I miss is that Roku also allowed Amazon videos on demand to be rented and streamed also. No I no longer have this option. I hope they upgrade it to add this option.

I purchased this unit used to have a Blu-Ray player and an upscale DVD player. The first movie I put in the system told me that I may have to upgrade my firmware in order to play the new content. For giggles, I went to the Insignia Website and downloaded the latest firmware, created a CD and within just a few minutes had the unit working.

It is not the fastest Blu-Ray available of course, but it works great, sounds great through the optical port and is overall a great deal if you can find it for about $100 used or $150 new. Anything over that cost you can probably find a newer, faster version. Overall, I recommend this purchase to anyone looking to get into the Blu-Ray game for $100. Hope this helps.

I found a great deal on the wireless version of this dvd player & bought it to stream netflix. When I bought it I had high speed internet & it worked great! That same week I had fios installed and could no longer get netflix to connect. After many phone calls & frustration trying to get netflix to work, I was told by insignia tech support that their player is not currently compatible with verizon fios & that I should return it. They are working on a fix to the problem, but was told not to expect it anytime soon.

I did not purchase this item on Amazon, but I used the reviews on Amazon to make my purchasing decision. I feel it necessary to correct one glaring inaccuracy I found with another review, however. THIS MODEL OF BLU-RAY PLAYER DOES NOT PLAY NETFLIX OR ANY OTHER STREAMING CONTENT!

After fooling with a Samsung BD-P1600 for literally a week trying to get the wi-fi to work, I took it back and got this Insignia for a little less. And within 2 minutes of getting it out of the box I had it hooked up to my TV via HDMI and my internet via wi-fi and was streaming a movie from Netflix. The Netfix is my favorite part about the player. It works well with my 3 MB/sec DSL connection. The movie takes about 30-45 seconds to buffer and start playing, then it works flawlessly the whole movie. Netflix has a lot of children's movies/shows for my 3 yr old, and the movie selection is not bad and growing every day

Standard DVD playing is fine with great picture quality. I haven't played a blu-ray in it yet, but if it's any better than the DVD quality, it is excellent. I have had it for a couple of weeks and all is good. I would recommend this player over a more expensive Samsung (kind of ironic that Insignia is made by Samsung).

I bought this item as a christmas gift for my mother who is very hard to please, she loved it!! excellent quality, very fast shipping. I ordered a used item and received one that was basically brand new. VERY PLEASED!!

Both of the ones we had suddenly stopped playing the DVD's we had always successfully played on it in the past. Blu ray's didn't work, DVD's didn't work. We had the same problem with both, they each only lasted a few months. What a crock!

The main reasons I hate, yes hate, this blu-ray player.

1) The remote is terrible. The buttons don't work unless you mash down on them with a lot of force, and even then sometimes they don't work. Get a universal remote, you say? There are NO UNIVERSAL REMOTES THAT WORK WITH THIS despite what the salesmen may tell you.

2) Does not work with WEP but does not state this in the manual. I had to do a ton of research online to even come close to figuring out how to connect it to the internet. Then, once I connected it, I had many continuous issues with the connection which may or may not be a result of poor design of this product but I did not have any issues with my other connected devices... Hmmmm...

3) The Netflix feature is awful. If your connection goes down, you have to reload the movie, start from the beginning and mash down on the fast forward button for about 30 min if you were near the end of the movie. Give me a break! The remote you are forced to use is terrible for Netflix users.

4) The menus are not well organized and overall the player is just NOT user friendly.

I'm never buying Insignia again because of my experience with just this one product of theirs. TERRIBLE DESIGN!!! What were they thinking? (I kept asking myself this out loud over and over as I was trying to set it up. LOL)

As a Blu Ray player, you could do worse. As a way to watch Netflix, I can't stress enough how horrible a product it is. I've been so close to throwing the thing out of a window *several* times. Extremely frustrating as it doesn't connect to the internet 5 out of 6 times I turn the unit on, and when it does get a connection, it's so flaky that if you fast forward or rewind you lose it and need to reboot, if you finish one show or movie or whatever you can't watch another without rebooting.. When you lose the connection it recommends you to visit [...], which is literally an advertisement prompting you to buy one of these pieces of garbage, or sign up for netflix. It's such an insult. I called their customer service just once; I waited fifteen minutes for some guy who was eating the whole time I explained my issue to hang up on me when I finished my diatribe. I will NEVER buy another insignia product and I wouldn't suggest it to my worst enemy. I've received several over the air software updates and they've done NOTHING to repair these issues or enhance the experience. As I said, as Blu Ray player, it gets the job done. DO NOT buy this thing for Netflix - it's pathetic.

I bought this product upon Consumer Reports recommdation. It was a real disappointment. It takes several minutes for the drawer to open and the disk to load. The quality of the picture and sound were great- espcially for the price, However we have had it a little over a year before it stopped working- can't read any disks. My advise- DO NOT BUY!