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**kal**

Whoa. No idea why they're doing this but Amazon's selling the Sony BDP-S300 1080p Blu-ray Disc Player at 50% for $199 and with free shipping right now.

These will definitely sell out fast!

Tech specs:

- Full HD 1080/60p and 24p True Cinema Video Output,
- DVD Upscaling to 1080p via HDMI
- BRAVIA Theatre Sync (HDMI-CEC)
- BD/DVD/CD playback(4) and AVC-HD with x.v.Color output
- Multi-channel Linear PCM & Dolby Digital Plus Decoding

Link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000PALZE0?ie=UTF8&tag=curtpalmecrtp-20

Kal

r.bauer · Joined: 08 Apr 2006 Posts: 280 Location: The Netherlands

And they don't ship it outside the USA unfortunately.......

**kal** · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:21 pm Post subject:

Yup. Amazon unfortunately doesn't ship electronics outside the US border (due to warranty and sales restrictions). Books, DVDs, Movies, and anything downloadable is ok.

Too bad for me too. There's been many a time I wanted to buy something electronic from them.

Kal

Tom.W · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 6635

Are there any known problems with this player ?

dropzone7 · Joined: 12 Jun 2007 Posts: 1069 Location: Charlotte, NC

I guess they are blowing these out now that the S350 is available. A friend of mine has this S300 and I can tell you from using it myself that it is slooooowwwww. Loading is painful compared to other players like my Panasonic BD30. I would spend another $40 to $50 and get the Panny now that it is showing up in the $250 range. Many more user controls as well and for CRT users there is a gamma adjustment that is very useful.

**kal** · Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 3:25 am Post subject:

Panasonic BD30 you say? Interesting:

$274 with free shipping from Amazon.
Here's a link to it: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000Y634SU?ie=UTF8&tag=curtpalmecrtp-20

Kal

WanMan · Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 10270

Keep in mind there isn't an Ethernet connection on this thing and as a result the only way to update the firmware is by downloading it and burning it to a CD/DVD. I played with the Costco version of the 350 and it was slow as h3ll.

I still would rather spend the money on another PS3.

**kal** · Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 1:32 pm Post subject:

**kal** · Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 2:06 pm Post subject:

stefuel · Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:11 pm Post subject:

I'll stick with my PS3 until someone comes up with a BD mega changer like the 777ES

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 3:59 am Post subject:

I was at the grocery store buying film today. THey had a Sony BDP-S350 for sale for $249 and el cheapo Bluray disk's for $9.99 each.
Of course they also had 37" LCD TV's.

That's a neat grocery store.

WanMan · Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 10270

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:18 pm Post subject:

WanMan · Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 10270

Panasonic DMP-BD35 for $299 list price