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Ethan Baker from Kearsarge has sent in review of Sony BDP-S550 Blu-ray player.

November 16, 2008



The design of this player is essentially identical to its predecessor. The left side is dominated by the tray hidden by a flip-down panel that automatically raises and lowers. The right side features the play back function buttons. Also under the flip down panel is an SDHC card slot capable of reading high-definition photos or video shot in AVCHD format. There's also a bright light located toward the top of the front panel which is an indicator for the SDHC card slot.

The included remote is pretty good. Most of the standard playback controls glow in dark. There's a directional pad toward the bottom of the remote and handy buttons located around the perimeter. A little more button differentiation would have been nice.

This player is currently a Profile 1.1 Blu-ray player which means it can access picture-in-picture commentary tracks available on some Blu-ray Discs. It is not a Profile 2.0 player so it cannot access the BD-Live features on certain new Blu-ray Discs. This player can be upgraded in future to be compatible with profile 2.0. This player can output both Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio in bit stream format which means that people with newer receivers with onboard decoding can still take advantage of DTS-HD Master Audio. The similarly priced Sony PlayStation 3 can decode both formats which means you only need a receiver with HDMI support to take advantage of both formats.

This player displays a superb high-def picture. Manufacturer has cut a few corners from its previous models to keep the price below $500. A must have unit. Although it doesn't have ethernet capabilities it can still be updated by computer download and writing to cd. It is a simple procedure.

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