Customer Reviews:
 Great Value November 29, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you want to start watching Blu-Ray on your new Hi Def TV this player is a great value for the money. Easy set-up, I was able to watch "Kung Fu Panda" and "How the West Was Won" and was very impressed with the depth and detail in the images, especially in "How the West Was Won".
Nice Unit November 29, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This reasonably priced unit is nice, fairly responsive, and produces an outstanding image. BDLive is a plus, although I don't use it very often to look at additional content.
Great! November 29, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Probably the best option out there price wise. 5 star in every way. I only have 1 knock. On standard dual layer discs.... theres more of a pause than there should be. Not a huge deal and the manual warns on it but Sony should have done a better job than that. The upconvert of the standard dvds is awesome though. The Blu Ray disc are amazing! Very happy!
 Great product for a great price November 29, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This was my first blu ray player, it was bought on black friday for $179 which i think is a very good price. Anyways, the player was easy to set up, looks nice, and has amazing picture quality like it should. I have watched I Am Legend, Transformers, and Iron Man and they all look great on my 52" DLP. I also watched Hellboy II on regular dvd, and it upconverted it very well, better than my xbox 360(which only goes to 480p) Even on my large tv there were few jagged edges. The start up and load times were very quick. It turns on in about 15 seconds and loads movies at 30 seconds at the most. It was a great purchase, and i highly recommend it, especially if you can get it for under $200.
Sony really got it together on this one! VERY RECOMMENDED November 28, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I am an early adopter. Back in the late 70s I bought the very first VHS tape recorder/player model offered for sale in the US, a Panasonic that weighed as much as a boat anchor, had no frills, an all mechanical transport and probably put out about as much video quality as a cheap webcam. Price at the time, $1000.00!
Many years later, I bought one of the first DVD player models ever offered for sale in the US, a Panasonic model that cost $750 at the time, when the units were only for sale in California, and there were only seven (7!) titles for sale in DVD format.
With that experience, I thought I would wait a couple of years or so for the Blu-Ray format to get a catalog of titles going, and for the players to work out some early problems and to drop in price. Finally, the Sony BDP-S350 came along, and user comments suggested that Sony seemed to have worked out a lot of Sony's early Blu-Ray player issues. And, the price finally dropped to where you didn't feel like a sucker for overpaying for technology that you knew would have aggressive price cuts when Xmas came around.
I have NOT been disappointed! This unit is simply fantastic. The load times are modest and the startup, from standby mode, is really not much greater than many regular DVD players. Blu-Ray playback, and the user interface, is superb, and it is also a superb 1080p upsamlping regular DVD player.
The remote is well laid out and the unit has just been great. I had avoided Sony DVD players, for a lot of reasons. But they really got it together on this one. VERY RECOMMENDED.
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