Sony BDP-S300 1080p Blu-ray Disc Player | List Price: $399.99
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Brand: Sony
Binding: Electronics
Release Date: 2007-06-18
Warranty: 1 year warranty
Features: - Full HD 1080/60p and 24p True Cinema Video Output
- DVD Upscaling to 1080p via HDMI
- BRAVIA Theatre Sync (HDMI-CEC)
- BD/DVD/CD playback(4) and AVC-HD with x.v.Color output
- Multi-channel Linear PCM & Dolby Digital Plus Decoding
My Two Cents... [Posted on 2008-07-24]
Gonna make this short and sweet... don't buy this unit. Only had it for a few months now and it pops up with the No Disc Error... Great! Hundreds of dollars down the drain. Nothing you can do when this happens, it's dead. I've owned many, many Sony products over the years and they all eventually die prematurely. Maybe it's my fault for buying their crappy product. Save your money and get another unit. TRUST ME! Hope this helps, spread the word!
The future of the DVD Player is painful [Posted on 2008-07-25]
Slow Start up - that's new technology for you
Movies froze - had to power down the entire unit and start over again
Had to update firmware which fixed most of the frozen movies
DVD Players say's "CAN'T Play Disc" even when the the tray is open and I putting in the disc for the first time.
One unit just failed on me and can't play DVDs anymore (NO DISC Error message). I have to pay to have this shipped back to Sony to fix.
There must be a better way and I wonder if the other brand BLU-RAY DVD players are far superior to this Sony.
Update - I just updated to the latest firmware on my working Sony Blu-Ray DVD player to 3.95 so hopefully this should resolve most of the problems. I have heard good reviews on the new 350 so that is probably a better option for those wanting to buy a Blu-Ray DVD player now.
i like the blu-ray picture but [Posted on 2008-08-06]
rating is for current price, gold box $299, its not worth it to me. sub $100 and i will give it serious consideration. also, the software is still too pricey. is someone in sony land getting the picture yet?
uuuugggghhhhh! [Posted on 2008-08-07]
Quick....buy this player and raise the frustration level of your movie viewing experience to previously unimaginable levels. This player is sooooo slow I actually age while movies are loading. About 25 percent of the time, the following day, when the movie finally does load, the player shuts off after you select "play movie". Several times while in the middle of films the player has just shut off. Knowing that by the time I actually get the movie loaded again and to the scene where I had left off I would no longer be in the intended age demographic of the studio, I have seen several films only half way through. This makes me seem very moronish around the water cooler. Honestly, I don't know how sony, which usually builds quality items, could consider this product ready for the market. In the interest of fairness, once you do get going the picture is excellent. I am running the player through a JVC HD-100 projector onto a 120 inch Stewart screen and have no complaints about image quality. Oh yeah, when you are finally finished with the large chunk of your life you have committed to the process you have to get the DVD out. Pushing the eject button requires you to summon all of your remaining patience to avoid throwing the thing out the window as it takes several minutes just for the tray to move. My theatre is on the first floor, but when I finally do throw this thing out the window I will carry it up to my third floor deck to increase my level of satisfaction.
Don't buy this [Posted on 2008-08-30]
I received this player for Christmas '07 and as of today have been wondering how this product ever got the Sony name on it. It would have to speed up to be considered slow. It can take minutes to turn on, load, and very often the picture freezes and your left with the remote in hand pushing buttons with no results. I finally had enough last night when it froze and refused to eject a dvd. It now rest peacefully under horse manure in my dumpster. I will buy another Sony but will buy from a store with at least a 30 day return policy.
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