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3 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 uuuugggghhhhh! Aug 07, 2008
Quick....buy this player and raise the frustration level of your movie viewing experience to previously unimaginable levels. This player is sooooo slow I actually age while movies are loading. About 25 percent of the time, the following day, when the movie finally does load, the player shuts off after you select "play movie". Several times while in the middle of films the player has just shut off. Knowing that by the time I actually get the movie loaded again and to the scene where I had left off I would no longer be in the intended age demographic of the studio, I have seen several films only half way through. This makes me seem very moronish around the water cooler. Honestly, I don't know how sony, which usually builds quality items, could consider this product ready for the market. In the interest of fairness, once you do get going the picture is excellent. I am running the player through a JVC HD-100 projector onto a 120 inch Stewart screen and have no complaints about image quality. Oh yeah, when you are finally finished with the large chunk of your life you have committed to the process you have to get the DVD out. Pushing the eject button requires you to summon all of your remaining patience to avoid throwing the thing out the window as it takes several minutes just for the tray to move. My theatre is on the first floor, but when I finally do throw this thing out the window I will carry it up to my third floor deck to increase my level of satisfaction.
2 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 i like the blu-ray picture but Aug 06, 2008
rating is for current price, gold box $299, its not worth it to me. sub $100 and i will give it serious consideration. also, the software is still too pricey. is someone in sony land getting the picture yet?
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
The future of the DVD Player is painful Jul 25, 2008
Slow Start up - that's new technology for you
Movies froze - had to power down the entire unit and start over again
Had to update firmware which fixed most of the frozen movies
DVD Players say's "CAN'T Play Disc" even when the the tray is open and I putting in the disc for the first time.
One unit just failed on me and can't play DVDs anymore (NO DISC Error message). I have to pay to have this shipped back to Sony to fix.
There must be a better way and I wonder if the other brand BLU-RAY DVD players are far superior to this Sony.
Update - I just updated to the latest firmware on my working Sony Blu-Ray DVD player to 3.95 so hopefully this should resolve most of the problems. I have heard good reviews on the new 350 so that is probably a better option for those wanting to buy a Blu-Ray DVD player now.
2 of 4 found the following review helpful:
My Two Cents... Jul 24, 2008
Gonna make this short and sweet... don't buy this unit. Only had it for a few months now and it pops up with the No Disc Error... Great! Hundreds of dollars down the drain. Nothing you can do when this happens, it's dead. I've owned many, many Sony products over the years and they all eventually die prematurely. Maybe it's my fault for buying their crappy product. Save your money and get another unit. TRUST ME! Hope this helps, spread the word!
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Don't waste your $$$ Jul 22, 2008
Terrible product by Sony. Yes the picture is great, but it doesn't outweigh the hassle of >2 minute warmup time, flimsy remote, extremely poor upscaling and very few bells and whistles (didn't even have 'time left' feature).
Spend your hard earned cash on the new BDP-S350. Same price, half the size, better picture, easier navigation, minimal warmup time, etc.
Mine is running on a 52" Sony Bravia and it is incredible!
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