Sony BDP-S350 1080p Blu-ray Disc Player

Sony BDP-S350 1080p Blu-ray Disc Player | Excellent player, but feature deficient\!

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	Sony BDP-S350 1080p Blu-ray Disc Player Sony Sony average customer review:based on 244 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Great Picture

My Sony Blue ray is great! I used an HDMI cable to connect to a Samsung 1080 LCD and it's a great picture. You can tell the difference compared to the cable movies - it looks even better than cable. Make sure you use an HDMI cable. I'd heard start up time for the player was bad but this started up fairly quickly. You definetly have to wait but it's not long (about 20-30 seconds). Set up was easy. I've only had it for three weeks but so far no issues and the regular DVD's play well and do look a bit better.

Excellent player, but feature deficient\!

While this player does an excellent job at playing blu-ray discs and upscaling standard DVDs, it is deficient in 2 areas. (1) I should not have to supply my own USB thumb drive to add memory for the BDLIVE feature. Also, Sony purposely made the slot width very narrow so that you can not plug in most thumb drives. Very cleverly Sony makes the Micro Vault series of thumb drives that fit this narrow slot exactly. (2) This player should have incorporated wifi, not just an Ethernet jack. Otherwise this player is excellent.

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Blu-ray remote volume only works for TV

This is a great Blu-ray player. My only wish is that the remote would adjust the volume of my Sony AV receiver, not just the TV's volume. So if you use a receiver for your audio you still need the receiver's remote to adjust the volume.

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Easy installation if you follow the wiring diagram supplied. I use it with a bravia 52" with hdmi 1.3 cable and the results are great. So far I haven't used a blu ray disc in it but have used older DVD's as well as CD's and the improvement over old DVD player is excellent even though the old DVD player was higher end Sony. I bought it on Amazon with quick delivery and it came on time for Christmas.

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why is this thing so slow?

I'm confused by the raves in these reviews. It seems a bit like raving about a lamp because it puts out light.

There's nothing especially crappy about this player, it seems adequate (but nothing beyond that). It does an ok job of playing blu-ray discs (although the first one I got had to be returned because it would only play half of the discs I put in it, and even those it only played half of the time).

My biggest qualm is that this thing takes forever to process an operation. Sometimes you put in a disc and it just sits there for 15-20 seconds, loading. More amazingly, if you hit eject, it'll take up to 10 seconds just for it to do that. What on earth could be it doing between when you hit the button and when it ejects?

I bought this as a gift for my parents. If this is the current pinnacle of players, I'll be holding off until a more mature line of blu-ray players arrives. new technology always takes a while to work the b.s. out of it.

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