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Sony BDP-S300 1080p Blu-ray Disc Player

Sony BDP-S300 1080p Blu-ray Disc Player

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Brand: Sony
Category: CE

List Price: $399.99
Buy Used: $75.00
You Save: $324.99 (81%)



New (5) Used (9) Refurbished (4) from $75.00

Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars 189 reviews

Color: Black/Blue
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries: 2
Batteries Included: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 15
Dimensions (in): 19.5 x 20.7 x 8

MPN: BDP-S300
Model: BDP-S300
UPC: 027242715721
EAN: 0027242715721
ASIN: B000PALZE0

Release Date: June 18, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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

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Editorial Reviews:

From the Manufacturer
From the Manufacturer See and hear a whole new world of high definition with the incredible BDP-S300 Blu-ray Disc Player. The crystalline clarity of 1080p Blu-ray Disc movies1 and DVD upscaling2 has to be seen to be believed. Amazing 24p True Cinema3 2 output and cinema-tuned picture presets allow you to see movies exactly how the director intended. And with BRAVIA Theatre Sync, you can now you can control your compatible BRAVIA TV and AV systems3 from just one remote.

x.v.Color
Thanks to the adoption of a newly approved international color standard called xvYCC (an option in the HDMI v1.3 spec and which Sony participated in helping to create), the color space has been greatly expanded. 1.8 times as many natural colors as existing HDTV signals will now be faithfully reproduced. (x.v.Color capability is available on select BRAVIA televisions, Blu-ray Disc players and the PlayStation3 computer entertainment system.)

24p True Cinema Video Output
Many movies are filmed at 24 frames per second (fps) and prime time TV programs are videotaped at 24p. Seizing an opportunity, some studios are taking a purist approach and encoding high definition video content such as Blu-ray Disc in 24p. The BDP-S300 wisely takes advantage of this by including 24p output capability. The benefits are smoother and more natural-looking images that make watching television an experience to remember. (24p video input capability is available on select BRAVIA televisions.)

BRAVIA Theater Sync
Go beyond simple audio and video transmission with the "one-touch play" remote control feature that allows you to easily manage select BRAVIA televisions and Sony HDMI audio and video components with a single remote. (Available on select BRAVIA theater home A/V systems and components.)

Blu-ray'sHD resolution offers a vastly better picture than SD resolution availabel from regular DVD
Blu-ray'sHD resolution offers a vastly better picture than SD resolution availabel from regular DVD
More About Blu-ray
The format provides five times larger capacity than today's DVDs, with unprecedented storage capacity of 25 GB (single-layer) and 50 GB (dual-layer). Blu-ray Disc players will be fully backward compatible with current DVD formats, delivering entertainment content in full high-definition (HD) quality, under a secure environment made possible through the most advanced copyright protection technology.

Blu-ray Disc provides picture quality beyond anything available, with full capability 1080p/24 resolution in Blu-ray and Up to 40Mbps bit encoding - 5X current DVD. The theater quality "uncompressed" audio supports 8 channels of Liner PCM, Up to 32 streams of audio, interactive capability, seamless menus, integrated games, hi-def bonus and educational features. Java will allow for more dynamic, more sophisticated interactivity.

Expand your workd with Sony products using Blu-ray Disc technology. It;s the heart of an outstanding line of Sony products with Blu-ray Disc technology that extends beyond the boundaries of high-definition and opens the new vistas for creativity, enjoyment, and interaction.

Discover unsurpassed picture quality and uncompressed audio on supporting media that goes beyond any other format you've seen. Immerse yourself in the unrivaled detail that lets you experiencemore in every movie, every game.

Movies

Find a huge selection of great movies available now on Blu-ray Disc
Find a huge selection of great movies available now on Blu-ray Disc
The best names in entertainment suppor Blu-ray Disc technology. Seven of Hollywood's major studios -- with 90% of home entertainment sales -- ensure the most extensive library of high definition titles, with hits from SOny pictures, Walt Disney, MGM, 20th Century Fox, Warner Brothers, Paramount, and Lions Gate. You'll find more titles coming every month.

Blu-ray Disc was created to match the accelerating growth in digital consumer electronics and computer technology. The platform supports the convergence of film, music, gaming and other computer entertainment in a single standard. Sony Computer Entertainment's adoption of Blu-ray Disc ROM technology in the next-generation PlayStation 3 system was announced at the 2005 Electronic Entertainment Expo.

Capacity Without Compromise
Everything that DVD can do, Blu-ray Disc does and more. Blue laser technology enables up to 50 GB of storage -- five times the capacity of DVD. That’s room for nine hours of HD. Or 23 hours of SD. Or tens of thousands of songs. Unbelievable data storage.

Versatiltiy Beyond the Ordinary
From movies to music to games to PC software and file backup, Blu-ray Disc is your solution! The system embraces pre-recorded titles (BD-ROM), discs that you can record yourself (BD-R) and discs you can re-record over and over again (BD-RE). So we can anticipate not only BD players for your living room, but also BD recorders, BD-based game consoles, BD drives for your personal computer and even BD camcorders using compact 8 cm (3") discs!

Product Description
See and hear a whole new world in high definition with Sony's BDP-S300. The crystalline clarity of 1080p Blu-ray DiscTM movies1 and DVD upscaling2 that can bring your DVDs to the highest possible quality, mean your favorite movies have never looked or sounded so good. Add to that Sony's 24p True Cinema2 and Cinema Tuned picture presets, which allow you to see any movie just the way its director intended, and all you'll need is a little popcorn to lose yourself in an HD world. Better yet, now Sony's BRAVIATM Theatre Sync means that now you can control your compatible TV and AV systems3 all from one remote.


Customer Reviews:
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1 out of 5 stars Pathetic   July 22, 2010
K. Zsolczai (Boynton Beach, FL USA)
I had to update firmware on this thing every other month yet still half the time it does not want to play a regular DVD Disk. I power on my old (from 2001 or so) $60 Panasonic DVD player and it plays every DVD. This "high end device" from SONY does not.

When it works I have no problems with it. Picture quality is good, so is audio.

Load times are SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW. Yup. That slow.

Normal blue ray watching routine:
1. turn player ON
2. go check email, or create a salad, or whatever else that takes about 5 minutes.
3. come back... player is powered ON
4. load disk.... go back to step 2.

Seriously easily 5 min from power ON to watch. Very upsetting if I think about it. But all this would have not brought me here to write this if the damn thing would only work and be backward compatible with regular DVDs but it is often not and that is just unacceptable.

DO NOT BUY THIS!



1 out of 5 stars Never works   July 17, 2010
Eagle25
This is the worse purchase I have made. It plays not blue Ray fine, but not blue Ray.
Sony rep tells me I need updates every few weeks. 5 to 7 day, and the movie rental is only 5 days. Save your money and get on demand.



1 out of 5 stars Keep going...   July 12, 2010
RK (New York, USA)
This is an awful device. Sometimes it plays a Blu ray disc, then if you try to play it again, it cannot read it, then it plays it the next day - I am quite familiar with washing discs to make them play and this problem is unrelated to the condition of the disc. Second, it takes ages to load and play discs - very very sluggish. Then the firmware updates Sony issues are windows only - they distribute .exe self extracting files which expand to provide a .iso - no idea why the geniuses there haven't worked out that they could just distribute the .iso and save Mac users like me the headache of having to use a windows machine somewhere to update the firmware.
Basically, I regret this purchase and recommend that you pass on this device.



1 out of 5 stars "cannot play" "loading..." "loading..." "error..." this will be you.   May 18, 2010
Jocelyn R. Mahoney (Minneapolis)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

After constantly downloading firmware every 24 days (search, locate, follow complicated instructions, download, burn image to disk - not easy to do - load in player, wait 30 minutes for it to work, adjust settings... then you can watch your movie. But you won't know that you need to do this until after you get your movie, make popcorn, put the kids to bed, grab a beer... all of a sudden... you've got problems.)

OK, aside from that frustration above, expect to experience SLOW power on, SLOW open disc, SLOW load disc. Expect random senseless errors that make it impossible for you to watch that new $30 DVD you just bought. Then call Sony, sit on hold, talk to India, 3 hours later, it's 2 am and you finally learn that you need to send it in for repair... only $115. That's just to look at it.

Get the picture? Google this player. Google SONY DVD Blue Ray. You'll see what I mean. It's not a good brand. Look elsewhere, or you'll hear me (and the massive others) saying "I told you so" in your ear.



4 out of 5 stars older but good   April 11, 2010
david nevinski
Takes a while to load if you dont upgrade the firmware but its still a good unit either way. the sound/video quality is way better then the cheap one i bought from wal-mart.

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