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Sony BDP-S500
First seen: 11 march 2007
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User Score (128)8.1
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Expert Score (5)7.8
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List All 1 PricesPros & Cons
- easy set, excellent colour, deep colour palate, great connections, easy to use
- broke frequently, load time, cons up, difficult to use, otherwise no complaints
- 1080p High Definition Picture
- 7.1ch Surround Sound
- 24p True Cinema
- Bravia Theatre Sync
- x.v. Colour
- 1080p DVD Upscale
- AVC-HD Disc Playback
- Dolby True HD decoding/bit stream out (HDMI ver1.3)
- Dolby Digital Plus decoding/bit stream out (HDMI ver.1.3)
- DTS -HD High Resolution Audio decoding/bit stream out (HDMIver1.3)
- DTS
- 5.1ch Gold Plated Analog Audio Out
- HDMI
- Bitrate Display
- Motorized Slide Door
BDP-S500
The BDP-S500 is Sony’s current flagship Blu-ray player. It is a Profile 1.0 Blu-ray with 1080p output supporting 24p playback, HDMI 1.3, and Sony’s x.v.Colour technology. The player physical dimension is 430mm x 99.2mm x 361mm and weighs approximately 4.8kg. In comparison to the BDP-S300, this player is bigger and comes with a motorized sliding front panel. The package includes the player, video cord, stereo audio cord, power cord, and remote control.
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See moreBDP-S500
The BDP-S500 is Sony’s current flagship Blu-ray player. It is a Profile 1.0 Blu-ray with 1080p output supporting 24p playback, HDMI 1.3, and Sony’s x.v.Colour technology. The player physical dimension is 430mm x 99.2mm x 361mm and weighs approximately 4.8kg. In comparison to the BDP-S300, this player is bigger and comes with a motorized sliding front panel. The package includes the player, video cord, stereo audio cord, power cord, and remote control.
Features
The BDP-S500 delivers Full 1080P picture and up to 7.1 channels of surround audio. This player can play Blu-ray Disc Movies, DVDs, Audio CDs, and AVC-D discs. This includes reading the recordable BD-R and BDR-RE discs in BDMV format, as well as BD-ROM, DVD+R (video mode), and DVD+RW (video mode) discs. The player can also read AVCHD camcorder recordings on 8 or 12cm DVD discs. It can output Blu-ray Disc Movies encoded at 1080/24p in their native frame rate. For other movies, it can also output at 1080/60p. The digital connection outputs video in 720p, 1080i, and 1080p. For DVDs, it can upscale most DVD to 1080p quality. The player can decode MPEG2, MPEG4-AVC, and VC-1 videos. When connected via the HDMI connection, the BDP-S500 can either output or internally decode Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD. It also supports uncompressed PCM. The analog-to-digital converter supports 192 KHz audio at 24bit. Apart from HDMI, the player has composite, S-Video, and Y/Pb/Pr component video output, as well as analog, coaxial, and optical audio output. The BDP-S500 supports Linear PCM output via HDMI bitstream.
Additional Features
The player can also play MP3 and JPEG pictures in DVD+R/+RW/-R/-RW format. For interactivity, the BDP-S500 supports BD-Java programming. The player also has several Cinema Tunes Picture Presets for tuning the picture to room brightness. With Sony BRAVIA Theatre Sync, the player can be used in sync with Sony BRAVIA Televisions. Other features are front LCD off or dimmer mode, parental control, and popup menu interface.
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BDP-S500
Reviewer: Stuff.tv29 February 2008Looks great and is a very capable performer, but this still isn't the finished Blu-ray article we're looking for Read more
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Reviewer: Empire25 July 2008
Sony's high-spec Blu-ray deck fires 1080p pictures to your TV at 24 frames per second and unlike the next model down (BDP-S300) it supports 7.1-channel Dolby True HD, DTS HD and Dolby Digital Plus. The S500 looks gorgeous with a motorised front panel that slides down at the push of a button, and picture quality is staggeringly sharp and vibrant. Read more
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Reviewer: HDTV2 March 2008
A few frustrating absences such as the Blu-ray 1.1 profile and DTS-HD Master Audio are more than made up for with supreme HD picture quality and Dolby TruHD along with DTS-HD High Resolution audio. Read more
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Sony BDPS500B
Reviewer: CNET17 January 2008The Sony BDPS500B is an excellent sonic performer and will upscale your DVD collection — but it's outshone by cheaper players for Blu-ray playback. Read more
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Sony BDP-S500 Review
Reviewer: CNET23 April 2008There is no compelling reason to buy this player over a PlayStation 3: it's too expensive, doesn't support profile 1.1 or 2.0, and costs more than pretty much every Blu-ray player on the market. The picture and sound quality are, however, excellent, which makes it a good player with a silly price tag Read more
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BDP s500 doesn't live up to claims
Reviewer: OneCall29 August 2008This unit was purchased as I was told that it could play DTS Master audio, this turns out not to be true. It can not output pure bitstream so my Denon 3808 only gets a DTS surround signal, not the higher codec DTS Master. It does fine with Dolby TrueHD, but not DTS Master. Other than that I love it, despite being even slower to open, load or play than previous generations from Sony... Read more
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great! great! great
Reviewer: johnny, J&R14 October 2008the image quality is the best i've ever seen. it was very easy to hook up, plays all my old dvds. only negative is that the load time is a little slow but all of the blu-rays ARE LIKE THAT. definitely recommend. [...] Read more
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Bad product or bad luck
Reviewer: DealTime UK20 May 2008I bought this unit 2 months ago and have had problems with it. Although easy to use, the first unit I had had difficulty with dark still images; little white horizontal lines appeared. The unit was incredibly slow to respond to commands from the remote. It was returned to Sony and Sony performed a firmware update. Obviously, not diagnostic was done, same problem occured. The store changed the unit. Just recently, the remote stopped working. I have to go replace it. The... Read more
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"breaks frequently and requires a lot of service"
Reviewer: CNET18 June 2010Sony has gone down hill, overrated-overpriced. Buy a Panasonic! My unit loaded slowly and broke so many times (2 time in less than 6 months) Sony wanted $140 every time to repair. Their helps centers have people who barely speak English and cant help at all. Were very rude to me and when I explained to them the repair needs, they were rude. This unit promised a lot, cost a lot and int truth is not as good as the Samsung or Panasonic models for 1/2 the price. This unit... Read more
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no problems at all
Reviewer: Nicholas F. Dandrea, Amazon5 June 2010i got this blu ray player 2 years ago with my sony card points and i must say i have no problems at all. yes it takes a little time to load but it does not bother me. i think its an awesome machine. its a little big but it does fit into my cabinet. Read more
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