Received this today. Generally impressed. Picture quality as good as PS3 but how slow is this unit to load.....well compared with my PS3 which is the only other blu ray player I have experience with. I have read the 350 is comparatively speedy (I think I have anyway) so the PS3 must be amazingly quick then - the quickest of all perhaps? Opinions anyone?
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Gerrardasnails
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max222:Received this today. Generally impressed. Picture quality as good as PS3 but how slow is this unit to load.....well compared with my PS3 which is the only other blu ray player I have experience with. I have read the 350 is comparatively speedy (I think I have anyway) so the PS3 must be amazingly quick then - the quickest of all perhaps? Opinions anyone?
Read your manual and change the settings for load times. It loads in under 10 seconds.
Read your manual and change the settings for load times. It loads in under 10 seconds.
Well that sounds good - is that the quick start option? I don't know if it is but I saw an on screen note during easy set up re a quick start option and glimpsed the phrases "higher electricity consumption" and "fans always on" or similar wording and in essence shied away from it for cost saving and noise reasons?
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The quick start is just the time the player takes to boot up - you need to allow extra time for the player to actually load the disc. As for loading times, the PS3 is still the quickest BD player we've come across.
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.......and it really does depend on the disc. ÿSome are very swift, while the wait with others (Pirates, for example) seems interminable.
The PS3 is an extremely powerful computer that is sold at a loss. Comparing it to standalones is a bit apples and oranges. If the 350 is anything like the 550, it's actually very fast for a standalone. Of course it's all disc dependant, but it's about three times quicker on average than the older Samsung BD-P1400, especially with Java authored discs. The From Dusk Till Dawn Blu-ray takes about 20-odd seconds to recognise the disc and load the first menu screen. If you go from the time it takes after it's actually recognised the disc, it's around 10 seconds. I haven't had a single disc take longer than 1 minute to hit the first menu yet, which isn't much slower than the PS3 considering the hardware differences. PCs are as quick as the PS3, but then you'd expect that.
Thanks - yes I'm a huge fan of the PS3 and perhaps now only realising how impressive it really is.
On a slightly different matter on the 350 does anyone know why I get the "Resume playback prohibited" message (and therefore have to go back to the initial start menu) when I press stop once during playback - pressing stop twice I would understand but surely once shouldn't do this ? (if its any clue when pressing stop the TV screen goes very briefly back to 350 GUI menu screen, then completely black and blank as it seems to adjust its (ie the TV's) display aspects/input formats automatically and back to GUI again before I get this message)
On a slightly different matter on the 350 does anyone know why I get the "Resume playback prohibited" message (and therefore have to go back to the initial start menu) when I press stop once during playback - pressing stop twice I would understand but surely once shouldn't do this ? (if its any clue when pressing stop the TV screen goes very briefly back to 350 GUI menu screen, then completely black and blank as it seems to adjust its (ie the TV's) display aspects/input formats automatically and back to GUI again before I get this message)
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