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Two Blu-ray Players From Sony
By: Siddharth Bhatia   |   Mar 04, 2008
  • 4
Stunning picture quality
Pleasing color levels
Very expensive

I just can’t wait anymore. As promised last week, I'm raring to put some BD players through their paces. For once, companies have been unusually cooperative and sent us their products pretty quickly; though with strict instructions. We know these devices are valuable, but let’s see just how good the new (in Indian terms) technology actually is. At Tech2.0 it’s first-come first-reviewed, so Sony takes pole position as it was the first to supply us with its BD players: the BDP-S1E and the BDP-S300.

BDP-S1E
This is Sony's flagship product currently available in India. A good-looking, sturdy player, it has an aluminum colored faux finished chassis, with a sleek front panel comprising two horizontal strips: a thin glossy black one on the top, and a broader electric blue strip making up the lower part.

BDP-S1E

The tray is located in the center of the black strip, with tiny round black buttons lined up horizontally on the right end. The top left corner of the front panel sports a futuristic looking power on/off button, while the symmetrically equal left corner has the eject button. The ubiquitous Sony logo is in the centre of the blue strip. Overall it looks very classy, even if the electric blue can seem a bit too bright for some. If your room has a wood-oriented tone and your sound system is retro-looking, the player may not match the decor.

BDP-S300
This one looks a little different from its bigger, more expensive brother. It's slimmer, and while the façade still consists of a dual tone scheme, this time the blue strip is darker, and looks better in my opinion.

BDP-S300

The top edge slopes down slightly, and consists of two semicircular black buttons on the extreme edges, as in the S1E. The chassis is black, with a mild metallic luster – this again is a more aesthetic option to the aluminum.


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I have already got a PS3......ha.hah.ahah.ha.ahha
Shankar @ Mar 05, 2008
Now you know why the PS3 has a bluray player.With its own BR players priced higher than the PS3 Sony assured that people will buy the PS3 for BR playback.
If you're planning to buy a BR player,i would suggest buying a PS3 as its the only future-proof BR player available in the market.
Ravi Shanker @ Mar 05, 2008
then why the hec is ps3 so cheap then blue ray player..cant understand wats sony up to...in my viwe blue ray will come to 15k in a years time
prashant @ Mar 05, 2008
I'm glad that we have a winner pretty early in this format war. The last thing which was needed is a coexistence of 2 formats which thankfully did not happen. I would rather skip the first generation of bluray drives and wait for better and cheaper priced ones in the coming months.

Those who have purchased a PS3 though, have made a fine investment.
Kartik @ Mar 05, 2008
Thanks, but no thanks.

I am not about to throw away my DVD collection just so that movie studios can make money by selling me more of the same old.

Did you know that audio CDs were designed to hold lossless audio. People don't need (and can't get) better audio from crap like SACD, DVD-Audio, etc.

Hollywood learned a lesson from this and decided never to sell full quality movies to customers. Blu-Ray is no exception. Movies and sound are still encoded using lossy compression algorithms. So, expect a 'new' disc format within ten years which promises better audio and video quality.

However, the killer on this one is the DRM. I will never buy crap infested with DRM.

The increase in quality is not as dramatic as that observed when people watched DVD movies after years of the VHS tape.
Rohan @ Mar 05, 2008
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