Sony BDP-S350 1080p Blu-ray Disc Player

I must say that SONY quality is incompetent and many reasons have been stated by the previous reviewers. Before buying, you must understand the difference between the BDP-S350 vs. 250 one. This unit has many outputs and network enabled feature which adds a great way of streaming videos from external sources (Internet).

So far I have played two Blu-Ray Movies -- Night at the Museum and Quantum of Solace, very satisfied with the output.

When purchasing SONY Blu-Ray player, it is best to buy in combo with a SONY TV since they work very well together. I am giving it a 5 for the quality and pricing. Got it for $200.00 SHIPPED.

If you are looking for a great buy and a quality product, search no more! This player will provide you with incredible picture on a 1080p TV. It is much smaller that the 300. I'm still not sure what to do with the BD live feature, but something tells me that it will come in handy one day.

Bought this for my downstairs TV moving the much older Panasonic (and BTW much better) to the upstairs.

Reading the other reviews (upon which I based my purchase, so beware) I suppose I've been spoiled by my Panasonic. Someone wrote: "startup time is acceptable". No it ain't. You grow old and die waiting for this thing to come up.

First it displays "Welcome" then there is a pause then it flashes "Wait" for at least 10 seconds. And then there is a pause. And you press the door Open button (btw - if you press the button before this nothing happens). Then there is a pause and the door finally opens. Then when you put the disk in and push close it flashes "Load" for at least 10 seconds. It's so annoying. With my Panasonic, I can walk up to it, press the button to open the door, and it opens right away. Wow, modern technology.

OK. There's that. The other thing that annoys me is that there is this incremental replay/ffwd function kind of like what is on the DVR. Only this one is in 10 second increments. Fine, I thought, this is great. Well, it would be great except it is so freakin sluggish. You press it then wait a while, then finally it starts playing. If you try to press it several times in a row, it really gets confused. This is really annoying if you are used to the instantaneous response you get with the DVR (well, with my Motorola DVR anyway).

I am so annoyed with this thing I'm returning it happily paying ABT's restocking fee to get it out of my house.

I Purchased this player on sale at amazon for $199. I have not owned a blu-ray player before this one. So I cant give you any comparisons to others, but one of my biggest concerns was the ability to up convert my normal DVD's because I own about 500 of them and I have a 1080p panasonic tv. I cannot believe the picture quality on standard DVD's it is awesome. For the price that I paid for this I cannot begin to say what and awesome deal it was. Because nothing comes close to the quality in this price range.

I purchased this Blu-ray player (BDP-S350) because it was on sale for $250 something, and because it was what I wanted to give as a Christmas gift to my spouse. I received it around the 1st of October 2008. Promptly hid it till Christmas. After Christmas, I connected the player to our system on New Year's Day. We then played our first Blu-ray movie, "WANTED" it played about half way and on a chapter change the video then stopped, the counter kept going?? We eventually ejected the disc tried several other discs and it would intermittently begin loading a disc, then you'd hear the unit hunting and nothing.

So I "assumed", as a long-time (since 2000) frequent customer of AMAZON, and that this was in the "CHRISTMAS SEASON", that Amazon would take care of the problem and exchange the unit. In my experience, Amazon has always been very fair and customer focus. I've been a PRIME member since it started and I've purchased everything from $500 leaf blowers, to $2K LCD TV among at least 100+ orders in the last eight years.

So I emailed my situation to Customer Service. Their response. Tough. Not within the 30 day return period.

So I called AMAZON, spoke to a representative, she informed me that the Christmas Season is only orders from 1 Nov till Christmas. I should call Sony. I explained that I had no idea there was a magically date. Although one might consider that my mistake. I never received a notification, I'd received numerous emails often more than one a day, I did not recalled seeing that "magical date". They assured me it was on their web site somewhere. In the end she gave me the same "TOUGH" answer. I then spoke with a Supervisor. Same answer. "TOUGH, Call Sony". Or return the DVD player and we'll give you some sort of refund. We do not know how much, the returns center will decide when they receive the player. I said "No Thanks" to that nonsense.

So I canceled my PRIME membership, asked for a refund of the $79.00. And will not be recommending nor purchasing as often from AMAZON.

All in all a very disappointing scenario. I had thought much more of AMAZON then I suppose they deserved.

So, I contacted Sony spent a half hour on the phone arranging the shipment of the unit to Sony, it cost me $10 to ship and my DVD player will hopefully upon it's return, work for more than one movie. Sad, Sad, Sad.