Visor updated Sony BDP-S350

Visor — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:43:20 -0400

October 2, 2009 at 12:43 pm

new pro/con: Does not have 'disc memory', so any disc that is ejected from the player will start from the beginning next time it is played.
new pro/con: Will not play DivX / Xvid movies.
new pro/con: No "smooth scan" feature for scanning forwards & backwards through movies (displays only a couple of frames per second).
new pro/con: Cannot play AVCHD discs with DTS/DTS-HD/MA or Dolby TrueHD.
agreed: "Has an audio video lag tweak for discs that might be out of sync."
agreed: "Great Blu-ray and DVD playback performance."
agreed: "It has a USB port in back for local Storage making it BD-Live 2.0 complient via the free firmware upgrade."
agreed: "Has come down in price significantly; find it for less than $250"
agreed: "Nice design"
agreed: "Not as expensive as predecessor - BDP-S300"
agreed: "Bitstreams all audio formats"
agreed: "Ethernet port for Web-content and firmware updates"
agreed: "Supports BD-Live"
agreed: "Doesn't decode DTS-HD audio formats onboard"
disagreed: "No local storage, therefore not Profile 2.0 compliant"
disagreed: "Will not play MP3 CDs or DVDs."
disagreed: "Remote feels very light and cheap, but works well."
agreed: "No 7.1 analog audio outputs"
agreed: "Slow changing tracks between DVD chapters."
disagreed: "Will not play burned DVD movies, recognizes the disc but says "operation cannot be performed on this disc""

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Visor — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:30:12 -0400

October 2, 2009 at 12:30 pm