Sony BDP-S550 1080p Blu-ray Player

7 Responses to “Sony BDP-S550 1080p Blu-ray Player”

1. Donald Keylon
   November 17, 2009 at 2:14 am

   What a total farce, Blu ray beats HD…. HDMI Cables?? Compatibility???

   $4500 dollars for NOTHING!! OK so I bought into the hype that Blu ray won the HD Race. I buy into the interoperability of SONY and THE hollywood ONLY serving HDMI Cable… I buy a new $3500 TV (Sony 1080P/24-52″) and a new Sony Blue Ray Player and a new BLUE RAY FILMED MOVIE for three TIMES the price of a standard DVD and put them together only to discover that I have black lines (letterbox) on my TV, The picture is a little worse than a standard DVD, the menu system works like a $27 VCR. The “Interoperability” between the Sony TV and the SONY BD works about like free air digital TV. And the Audio is like listening to a 3 transistor radio…

   What a total JOKE!! ANYONE CONSIDERING UPGRADING TO ALL THE “NEWEST” because of ALL THE HYPE, Leave your money in your pocket. Go buy a cheeseburger and put the remainder in a 401k. When what you have breaks, get new average price stuff. When you pay all the big bucks for all the best you get NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING!
   
   Maybe someone else’s BD/TV actually works (oh wait a minute, ALL BD is Based on SONY technology….)

   Sony (who made my PSP, PS3, Nav System, TVx5, BD Player and PDA has seen the last of my credit card.

   MY NEW $500 BD Player hooked up to my new $3500 52″ LCD TV, wants to operate in PAN-N-Scan mode in order to utilize the other 30% of the $100 per square inch real estate I bought from sony.

   I though Pan-N-Scan died with Beta Max….

   In closing, you would get the exact same experience (Maybe better with a $27 480i DVD Player, a $99 “Home theater system” and a No Name Rear Projection 50″ DONT BUY DONT BUY DONT BUY
   Rating: 1 / 5
2. Jeffrey L. Young
   November 17, 2009 at 3:29 am

   As far as Blu-ray goes, I would wait If I was you. There is very little difference between 1080P upscale and Blu-ray. Don’t waste the money just yet. Wait til the prices come down. I bought this player and it does everything it should. But, There are black lines on top and the bottom of the picture. This is from the movies I am told. If I have a 1080P Plasma T.V. shouldn’t the picture fill the whole screen? I thought so, eveidently because this is the way the movies are made there are black lines on top and the bottom. So the picture doesn’t fill the whole screen. This is B.S.! My suggestion, wait, wait, wait!!!
   Rating: 4 / 5
3. Blueman
   November 17, 2009 at 6:25 am

   I bought this player with great expectations. After testing and comparison with Panasonic BD-50, I was very disappointed. The video is clean, but lacks the depth. Both saturation and hues are much inferior to Panny’s. The audio part is a joke–hollow, dry and metallic. NO MORE SONY. The only plus for Sony is the remote which is far better than Panny’s.
   Rating: 3 / 5
4. Frank D. Ireland
   November 17, 2009 at 9:11 am

   My unit was defective out of the box (it would not output video using the HDMI output). I contacted Sony’s technical support and spoke with 4 different technicians. They concluded that the unit was defective out of the box.
   
   Rating: 1 / 5
5. Dean Van Damme
   November 17, 2009 at 11:23 am

   According to their claims, Sony says this will play burned DVD’s- well, I can trll you the one I got does not. They all seem to skip and cannot scan early on in the disc. They do seem to improve later. It does play all normal Blu-Ray or DVDs but if you have any burned DVDs and you plan to use this as your end all player- think again
   Rating: 1 / 5
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   February 27, 2010 at 7:14 pm

   very use full information. thank you.
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