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Rating: - It's all beauty and no brains
I was first in line for a PS3 simply for the blu ray capabilities. Bought that and marvelled at how wonderful it was... but it was just too noisy, too hot and too power hungry.
I ebayed that, in order to get a standalone player so I could watch a movie without the washing machine noises of the PS3 fan in the... foreground actually.
For the same money I spent on the PS3 with all that computer power and all those other functions, I bought this BDP S500. Firstly I was unimpressed ... Read More
Rating: - Stunning quality pictures
OK, so the major drawback is that this is a profile 1.0 player but the sheer quality of the picture makes up for that. Vibrant colours and three dimensional pictures sealed it for me. If you're not bothered about the picture in picture extras that profile 1.1 provides, this is an excellent choice.
Rating: - Good but could have been much better
I decided to acquire a BD player that was able to decode HD Audio like Dolby True-HD. I therefore traded in my BDP S300 and exchanged it for the higher end model - the BDP S500.
Despite preferring HD DVD formatwise, I really wanted to be able to experience the best of all films in Hi Def and that meant going purple and getting both formats.
The drawbacks of the BDP S500 are primarily that it is a Profile 1.0 BD standalone player. Blu-ray is an incomplete format, rushed onto the market ... Read More
Binding: Electronics Brand: Sony EAN: 4905524444735 Label: Sony Manufacturer: Sony Model: BDPS500B.CEK Publisher: Sony Release Date: September 05, 2007 Sales Rank: 5099 Studio: Sony Features:
- It's all beauty and no brains
- Good but could have been much better