Sony BDP-S300 Blu-ray Player

M2grip

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Just got Lucky

Strengths:

Don't care

Weaknesses:

Tick tock tick tock

Posted Jan 7, 2008 - A year ago I would have told you that you would be crazy to buy Blu instead of HD just looking at the price. My friend spent $1200.00. You believe that? Later I got my HD player for the XBOX 360 for $200.00 and said "Oh Yea"! Then I started to try to buy movies that I hadn't already bought on SD-DVD.(1200+) Well, I ended up having to duplicate a little and learn patience. Things started to look brighter as the choices started to grow. But after a while I got really frustrated that a lot of movies I wanted to own, were not going to be on HD. So, while I was at Best Buy shopping for Xmas gifts, low a behold, There lies a Sony Blu-ray player for!$299.00!. And on top of that, it was 20 bucks off more for an open box. And since someone gave me a $50.00 Gift Cert. There was really no choice. I had to buy it. That was before Warner Bros. switched sides. I finally made a timely decision that I wouldn't regret. But remember that friend of mine. I felt so bad that he couldn't see any HD versions, That I got him and HD player for Xmas. "D'OH"! In summation, I owned Betamax, LaserDiscs, Hi8 and Advantix cameras. You know as well as I do, that 5 years from now we(I) will be in the same situation. Screwed no matter what we do.

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banteavsrey from CA

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An excellent Blu-ray player but a week upconvert player

Strengths:

Blu-ray is awesome. Picture is the best with surround sound.

Weaknesses:

Upconverted Player is very weak. The picture is shaky.

Posted Sep 10, 2007 - I am very disappointed in the upconvert player of this blu-ray combo DVD player. The blu-ray is great. Installation is easy. The size of the box is good compared to the older version. I used this player to play the picture I took with my HD camera.

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boondoggle19... from IA

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Blu Ray may not be ready yet

Strengths:

Picture Quality

Weaknesses:

Unstable Requires constant updates

Posted 1 year ago - I've always thought Sony was over rated and this just reinforced that thought. When this thing works the picture is great but it's so unstable, it takes 3-5 to load up any Blu Rays. Regular DVD usually work fine and look great but if there's the slightest smudge or scratch -you'll have problems where regular DVD players don't. Newer movies seem to mess it up more and then you have to wait for the right firmware update to come out, without notice, to update it to maybe make it work. It skips, freezes, jumps ahead. I've never left a negative review in my life because I'm usually pretty easy going. This thing is not worth your $$!

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theojkid from FL

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Doesn't hold up.

Strengths:

It is Cheap

Weaknesses:

Everything else

Posted Apr 27, 2008 - Received as part of a Christmas offer from Sony for buying a 46 in LCD TV, so I've only had it 4 months. The thing no longer works. It powers on, but then turns itself off and then tries to re-power up. Only way to stop it is to pull the plug. The DVD tray will not open or close. So now it goes for warranty repair with me paying the freight to the repair center. One expects top notch products from Sony -- this unit doesn't fit that profile either from a hardware quality standpoint or an operations standpoint. Others have addressed the slow boot up time. Others addressed the grainy picture on non HD DVDs. I would say the picture for the typical non HD DVD is no better or worse than what one would see on a cheap DVD player. I haven't watched any HD DVDs so can't comment on that, but it would seem that unless one is going to spend a huge amount on HD DVDs, blue ray players aren't worth the price. Just glad I didn't spend any money buying this thing.

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cruzzin from PA

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Sony BDP-S300

Strengths:

Beautiful picture!

Weaknesses:

must be very patient - a little faster after updating the system firmware with the online patch from Sony, but then the front panel stopped working, must use the remote - definitely needs future patch

Posted Mar 3, 2008 - Well the price was great and the quality and sound is extremely exceptional (the full 1080p gives it that extra edge!). Be aware if you plan to use this for your main theater; it is a little picky with the type of media you choose for making your home videos. Test it first.

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garek

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Good, but not great

Strengths:

Nice user interface, plays movies without problems

Weaknesses:

slow load times, sluggish response to commands, no decoding of TrueHD, DTS-HD MA

Posted Feb 10, 2008 - The BDP-S300 plays movies without problems. The picture quality is good. However, it's slow to load, and sluggish when responding to the remote. Also, the player does not support the high-rez audio formats, TrueHD and DTS-HD MA.

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jonutsu

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Sony BDP-S300 DVD Player

Strengths:

great picture

Weaknesses:

price

Posted Feb 6, 2008 - Blu-Ray movies need to come way down in price for me to buy all of my dvd's in that format. I usually reserve "keepers" as my Blu-Ray purchases. There also appears to be a few seconds adjusting up front when the dvd is first inserted into the player - perhaps set-up time? Overall though I am happy with my purchase.

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drmek from AL

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User has 21 Days of experience with this product

Strengths:

Great 1080P picture, Easy firmware updates, Very good upconversion, unbeatable price

Weaknesses:

Slow loading process, non-lighted remote control

Posted Jan 13, 2008 - This Blu-Ray player has it all for an unbeatable recently reduced price. Although the loading process and the power up process are slow I do believe that further firmware updates will improve that drawback. You also ge 5 free Blu-Ray DVD\'s with a mail-in rebate. Sony\'s firmware updates are more frequent than Samsung\'s and this is why I chose this Blu-Ray player.

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