Sony BDP-S1 1080p Blu-ray Disc Player
by Sony
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Customer Review: Eloquent designe, so so picture.
Summary: 2 Stars
Sony BDP-S1 lacks the video processing of the newer model BR players. I've been watching standard DVD's and BR DVD's wondering what the heck happened to the picture compared to the BDP-S300. I was on the Sony site checking out the difference between the three available models. It turns out the 300 and 301 have a circuit called 24P True Cinema and the S1 doesn't. It not only makes a big difference in standard DVD's but also makes BR DVD's picture better as well. I'm not ooing and awing with the picture from the very expensive BDP-S1, but it does get coo dose for its beauty and construction.
The BDP-S1 also lacks "x.v. color" so if you have a newer TV with HDMI 1.3 "the color space has been greatly expanded. 1.8 times as many natural colors as existing HDTV signals will now be faithfully reproduced "
The advanced circitry isn't just nerd stuff spliting hairs. It realy makes a diffrence if you purchased a newer HDTV.
Why can't Sony get its act together and sell an updated version of the BDP-S1? OK, they droped the price on the BDP-S1 but you won't like the picture if you have used one of the 2nd generation Sony BR DVD player.
Customer Review: Beautiful Picture, Crummy Sound
Summary: 2 Stars
I purchased this player at a CompUSA store closing for a great price, but I wish I hadn't. This is the third time I've been fooled by Sony (Beta and D8). If I could return it, I would. Whether I stay with Blu-ray or switch to HD-DVD, I know it WON'T be a Sony.
Although THE PICTURE IS ABSOLUTELY STUNNING, the optical audio output is useless on my machine. My surround decoder's Dolby Digital or DTS signal indicator flashes on and off during any playback, and the sound just pops and stutters like leaving every other letter out of this text. The only way I can get any audio from the surround is to select "Downmix PCM" on the set-up for the Sony and get stereo only from the surround, or use the stereo only speakers with the HDMI cable signal in the TV. I did the firmware update, and it solved nothing.
Update, did a second firmware update. Still have to downmix audio on the optical. The machine now takes more than a minute to power on as well. Also, despite Sony having been part of the DVD+R pushers, this will not play + discs, only -. And NO CDs either. Never buying Sony again.
Customer Review: First generation, and it shows.
Summary: 2 Stars
We've got one of these in our office. It's slow - takes a very long time to start up, and is pretty unresponsive. Seems very finicky about disks with slight scratches. The "eject" button takes a long enough time to eject that you sit there wondering if you really ejected it and you hit it again, and it goes out about an inch and then goes back to tell you "no you hit it before I just decided to register both presses at the same time". Gets 2 stars instead of 1 because it actually plays disks and is basically functional, but I'd be upset if I got one for free (which I guess I kinda did). Looking forward to a 3rd or 4th generation version that's cheap, reliable, and more tolerant of scratches.Customer Review: Not ready for prime time
Summary: 2 Stars
Player has too many problems even after loading in the update discs. Things like: very slow startup, scan speed 1 usually works but forget 2 and 3, will just go into pause mode for no reason and you can't get it out without rebooting, etc. Very irritating machine, especially since it is relatively expensive.Customer Review: Biggest waste of time
Summary: 1 Stars
Well before, I bash the thing to death let me say, when it did play movies, it was short of breathtaking. My Toshiba AX2 is breathtaking! Anyways, the player performs fairly easily on most Blu-Ray titles. Here come the spin on everything. Recently did a firmware update at the service center because I noticed it was having difficulty playing some movies, and could't retreive any special features. SO they did the upgrades and ensured me the player was profile 1.1 compatible. I took the player home, and it wouldn't load any disks. So I hard reset the player over the phone with the service center, and that seemed to work for about 10 days. Then I would load a new movie it would start playing for about 5 mins the beep really loud at me then display an error prompt then shut down. Fair enough reset the player agian and everything worked fine. Well after about 5 days, I got fed up and took it back to the service center. They could not find anything wrong with the player? I brought in some movies, and they worked for about 5 mins then the problem came back. They took the cover off and watched the player do its thing, and no change? The guy was really stumped. The factory reset the player without any firmware updates. Everything was back to normal. The player worked great!!! Eventually after loading update by update, we seemed to have a working player again, untill the 1.1 profile came into play. The had modifiactions of the last update to see which one would work. Don't really know(not that techie). Finally I had a working player after about 5 hours at the repair depot. I took it home, and rented Pirates, and the new Harry Potter. Well, the gong show continued... I have now determined that the profile 1.1 stuff glitches, and I have since sold the player on EBAY for $199 with the last of my movies... Don't buy it and save your money...