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 Cheap, great name, looks nice, but sooooooooooooo slow... December 2, 2008
The gist is that I needed to buy an additional bluray player and thought what better machine to buy than a Sony bluray player! I mean how can you go wrong with buying a player made by the very people behind bluray! The amazingly cheap price (under 155), brand new, not bad looking, and it was, as I had mentioned, made by Sony - the company behind PS3 of all machines!
But what went wrong? Well it all fell apart as soon as I had turned the machine on. Literally turning the damn thing and waiting for it to turn on actually took minutes as oppose to seconds with my PS3, my many standard dvd players, including my HD-dvd player! But I shrugged it off thinking that that was it. But little did realise that that was not it!
Waiting for the disc tray to open (after pressing the button), waiting for the player to actually load the movie (after pressing the button), waiting for the machine to actually play the movie (after pressing the button), waiting for any action to take place (after pressing the button) took minutes!
Okay your thinking that, 'its only minutes???' - but try waiting for your disc tray or your movie to actually play in 2-3 minutes after pushing the button to play it (remote control or the actual button on the machine!), and you'll know that that is literally a life-time in today's technological standards!
The bottom line is that if your willing to sacrifice speed for price, name and design then go ahead and purchase this little gem. But, if you are someone who does get impatient at times, who wants things to happen now, and who does not like having to wait around for things to load, then please do not buy this machine! You are better off paying a bit extra for a PS3 machine which is by far THE best affordable bluray player on the market!
 No PIP but who cares ? November 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've owned this player for almost a year and there's nothing wrong with it. However Blu-Ray has now moved on to include Picture-In-Picture DVD commentaries. This player does not have the necessary hardware to show Picture-In-Picture. So if you want PIP then you want the more recent Sony BDP-S350 which is currently the same price. Though I believe you need to buy a memory upgrade for the BDP-S350 for PIP to work.
Also be aware that the 4 Free DVD Offer that is currently showing expired in August 2008.
Where this player scores one up on the BDP-S350 is that it has 6 separate multi-channel analogue outs, for those of us with analogue inputs on our amplifiers. There is also an additional 2 analogue outs Left / Right for TV connection if your TV has a DVI connection and not a HDMI connection.
The player itself is built to last and it's so big that my amp happily sits on top of it.
Is HD All That Good ? October 24, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
This player did really well upscaling my DVD's but the leap from that to HD films on Blu Ray wasn't so big.
We watched the standard Matrix and then a Blu Ray I robot and couldn't really see any difference.
Maybe this is a comment on Blu Ray or I Robot rather than the Sony player, I haven't watched enough HD stuff to confirm my findings.
 slow start up,still no free movies September 15, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
superb picture and sound .very good value for money.
Very dissapointed with Sony one of the key attractions was the 4 free dvds promised in 28 days (Ha Ha) .
28 days long gone and still not here ,rang Sony and they will try to rush it along they SHOULD be here in 3 weeks .
Watch this space.
Sony shame on you
 Pick up a bargain. September 13, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Now that the new S350 is out, you can pick one of these up for a bargain price. Remember this was originally a 400 machine aimed at early adopters and videophiles, and the build quality is therefore superb.
Picture quality is fantastic and I doubt whether most people would be able to tell the 1080p output apart from any other machine, as it is basically perfect.
Sony continue to support this product with firmware updates, now on version 4.20 and the speed of operation is now more than acceptable. Latest firmware supports Dolby TruHD too.
Okay, so it's only profile 1 and won't support some advanced features, but if you want a well made player just to watch movies, I can highly recommend this Sony.
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