Sony BDP-S301 1080p Blu-ray Disc Player BD/DVD/CD Playback with Bonus HDMI Cable @ richardeward.com

Sony BDP-S301 1080p Blu-ray Disc Player BD/DVD/CD Playback with Bonus HDMI Cable
from Sony

Features:

• Full HD 1080/60p and 24p True Cinema Video Output
• DVD Upscaling to 1080p via HDMI
• BRAVIA Theatre Sync (HDMI-CEC)
• BD/DVD/CD playback(4) and AVC-HD with x.v.Color output

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0

• Not recommended
  I purchased this in February 2008. Once you are playing a Blu-Ray Disc, of course the picture is fantastic on your hi-def Monitor, but this has been a very temperamental piece of gear. Very, very slow load times. Sometimes if you leave a disc in and power down, it will not load properly when you power up. You have to remove it, power back down, power up, reload, wait for the excrutiatingly long load time, then, maybe it will work. I had this less than a year before I had to download a firmware update to my... more info

• Solid player that has been misrepresented by earlier reviews
  I got this player about a year ago as a Christmas present. It has always worked quite well. Some of the criticisms of the player are largely the result of the apparent ignorance of the reviewers. The player does not advertise True HD audio, so you can know that before you buy it. The player is a 1.0 player. That means that some of the newer discs are going to require a firmware update in order to play them. Some of the problems that other reviewers are describing sound very much like firmware conflicts. The... more info

• Refurbished Equipment
  I should have sent the unit back. It takes a stpd amount of time (many minutes) to load a disk and often requires the disk to be reloaded several times. Many of the other buttons also require several touches before the unit will respond. All said this product was a total waste of money.
  

• HD is great, player is not
  I've had this player for about a year now. I get incredibly frustrated almost every time I use it. It takes about 1 minute to start up. While its booting, you cannot open the tray to put in a disc or take one out.
  I like many others have had the treat of a movie freezing up after about an hour. Then I play games with it for the next 20 minutes waiting for it to restart, and then deciding which part of the movie I am going to skip in order to at least see the end.
  Perhaps all Blu-ray players have... more info

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