Just noticed today that Amazon has price matched the Sony BDP-S370 at £99.99, same as Play.com, seems a cracking deal. Im very tempted to replace my Panasonic DMP-BD30 with this now.
audiowizard:Just noticed today that Amazon has price matched the Sony BDP-S370 at £99.99, same as Play.com, seems a cracking deal. Im very tempted to replace my Panasonic DMP-BD30 with this now.
You keep saying you are tempted. What's stopping you?
The only thing thats stopping me is paying for a player thats only going to do exactly the same but slightly better. My Panny also cost me well over £200 when I bought it new. I would like to hear from someone that has upgraded from the Panasonic DMP-BD30 to this player.
Im pretty sure the 370 is not 3D compatible, but the models up from it will be fully compatible via firmware upgrade. It should also be a big improvment over the PS3 in both picture and sound quality, also its supposed to load blu rays quicker than the PS3 and is pretty much silent, if the fan noise bothers you on PS3, hope this helps.
Noticed on Amazon that a 2mtrs HDMI lead comes free with the player (offer up to 11th July)
Any one any idea on the quality of this lead for use with the player?? I think for that offer I`m going order one from Amazon....£99.99 for a 5star rated Bluray player..... Amazing value!!!! (especially now that VAT will be 20% from JAN 2011)
By letting the player decode audio I assme you mean sending it via PCM? I have my Panny BD30 currently set to bitstream my hd audio to my STR-DG820 ( I like to see the Tru HD and DTS Master Audio light up) Am I right in saying that PCM would sound better with the new sony s370 sent to my amp, rather than bitstream?
Thats what I always thought, although I tried switching to PCM on my Panny BD30, and I can use the sound enhancers built in to the player, which in fact sounds rather good. So now I cant decide whether PCM or Bitstream is better for hd audio, i can only assume it depends upon the quality of the player and reciever and which one decodes the best.
Yes that makes sense SamsonD, I have always sent bitstream to my amp anyway, it was just something i tried out of curiosity. I think someone mentioned on here that the BDP-S370 would sound better than my Panny BD30 if I let the player do the decoding, thats why I mentioned it.
just about to order this online and the price HAS GONE UP TO £119.99 grrrrrrr... (Amazon & Play.com) So it looks like Richer sounds on Saturday... or see if I can do some bartering in the Sony Centre , probably not....
The easiest way to make your Sony multiregion is by this remote for £12.98 including delivery. Return the remote after you've used for £2.50 refund. Remember that firmware updates may cancel the multiregion capability, & you may have to make it multiregion again. It may not be always the case. My Panasonic BD60 retained its multiregion capability despite going through 2 firmware updates.