This week we are looking at Blu-ray players that come in at a bargainous sub-£300 price point.
This Sony is a particularly fine example: dubbed the BDP-S300, it costs just £210 if you shop around online. That’s super-cheap - but can it actually deliver on performance?
Check out my video review of the player for the tech specs and my verdict on the audio and visual quality. Enjoy!
Wil.
I consider this product at this price to be a rip off.
The HD-DVD players were started to come down to something sane when the studios sold out. The fact is that half the blue ray players sold may not even play the next blue ray disk that comes out because of changes still being made. Few if any support the full spec.
Under the circumstances unless you are making a couple of hundred thou a year even considering buying into this mess seems silly.
@ deowll
That ’something sane’ price you talk about was actually Toshiba selling the players at a loss to try and get the edge over Blu-ray. It cost Toshiba a huge amount of money by selling the players at an artificially low price and there was nothing ’sane’ about it at all.
Every Blu-ray disk will play on every Blu-ray player its just some of the extra features that wont.
I (and a lot of other people) paid considerably more than this for my first DVD player and this is a far superior product.
@Norbit
ehrm no, the Blue ray crypto spec is still in a sate of flux, so some disks will not play. The only reason the PS3 will be able to keep playing new blue rays disks is because: 1) Internet updates, 2) the Hardware for the PS3 is powerfull enough to handle more computationally expensive DRM, which will not be the case for all players 3) Sony will maintain compatibility so the PS3 will be able to keep playing Blue ray disks.
then there is all the HDMI crap that comes with any blue ray player and I don’t see how you could compare it with a DVD player. I’ll wait a few years until the last capitalist country (China) starts actually producing the kind of player people want, you know the ones who have certain features, such as ignoring region encoding, the ability to skip content marked as unskipable, and the ability to hook up to any TV without artificially degrading the image output or doing even worse to it.
@ Catty
Whats disks will not play? Examples? In order for you to be certain that some disks will not play there have to be some disks that will not play otherwise you are simply speculating and spreading FUD.
I owned a BD-S300, but I traded it in for the PS3 because of the lack of BD 1.1 and the unheard of load times. I look forward to your review of the PS3 which I am very pleased with.