Re: Shopping for Blu-Ray
- From: Jan B <nospam@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 07:10:59 +0100
On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:38:00 -0600, Lloyd Parsons
<lloydparsons@xxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <CvmdnSOMJ8WSMIrUnZ2dnUVZ_szinZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,....
Jer <gdunn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Lloyd Parsons wrote:
In article <moudneztOJzd04rUnZ2dnUVZ_sDinZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jer <gdunn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Lloyd Parsons wrote:
....If you have an HDMI connection to use for the BluRay player, then take a
serious look at the PS3. In spite of its odd look compared to a classic
player, it is the single best BluRay player out there.
It loads the disks faster than any of the others, is easily and often
upgraded via the internet, which makes it more compatible with the ever
increasingly slow loading newest, greatest, BluRay disks out there. It
really is hard to beat.
....The load speed is an
issue to many of us. Especially as the studios keep adding more and
more they want the disk to do with the menuing and such. 1.1 compliancy
is nice, but it seems that nearly every time Disney (and some others)
come out with their latest and greatest, lots of players either won't
load them, or load them so slowly as to be irritating as hell. I have
yet to see a single movie that the PS3 doesn't load just lickety split
and run flawlessly. I wish I could say that about other BluRay gear!
While I'll say the S300 and S500 are slower to load than the S550, all
three have never faulted to play anything in the drawer. And while I
haven't played most DVD's in my library, I have played several hundred,
and not a single one failed to perform as expected, and this includes
the ~40 BD disks currently on hand. The S550 routinely loads and begins
playing a BD disk between 10-15 seconds after the drawer closes,
significantly faster than the other two players, which both take about a
minute or so. I recall something about the newer S550 being faster, but
that had nothing to do with my choice. Of course, I can't know if my
own experience with load time is typical of others, but it is the
reality here. Incidently, both the S300 and S500 have had their
firmware updated to 1.1, while the S550 was born with it. The latest
rumor is the S550 will get 2.0 update somewhere down the line, I've not
heard any similar rumors about the other two players. Personally, I'm
not going to loose sleep over it until I feel the need to.
I got the Sony S300 instead of the new S350 because I felt that
"Source Direct" (i.e. the automatic selection of the output signal
format equal to the disk) is a good function.
The boot time of this machine is close to a minute. The load times of
the disks I have are about 30 seconds but on top of this (and I wonder
if any player can work around it) there is often one more minute of,
first the copy right warning, FBI warning, then a film company
logotype, a distributor logotype, afterwhich the animated disk menu
starts to play. Of course the menu has to run through all its
animation before I can command it to start playing.
.
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