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Sony BDP-S300 Blu-ray player reviewed by Patrick Pryor

June 22, 2008



Design:

This player received the highest design score of any next-generation player we've reviewed so far.  Its silver chassis and a black front panel combine for an unusually stylish look.  The front panel is glossy and is marked by only two buttons: power and disc open/close.  our only complaint about the design is that the aforementioned blue light around the disc drive and the blue light next to the power button cannot be dimmed.

Remote Control:

The included remote is pretty good. Most of the standard playback controls  glow in the dark which makes them easier to see in a darkened home theater. 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.

Features:

The main feature of this player is its ability to play Blu-ray discs. It can also play standard-definition DVDs and upconvert them to higher resolutions . Unlike Sony's PlayStation 3 and Sony's older BDP-S1 the BDP-S300 doesn't support SACD. This player has support for standard Dolby Digital and DTS surround soundtracks and it also has support for the slightly higher quality Dolby Digital Plus format. What's more important is that this player lacks support for Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks. The connectivity is standard for the breed. There's an HDMI output which can handle both 1080p high-definition video along with high resolution audio. This player also has a couple of additional enthusiast-friendly features. One is the ability to output at 24 frames per second. We've tested a few players with this ability and haven't seen any increased performance with the displays we've used.

Performance:

This player performed excellently by properly deinterlacing 1080i signals to 1080p without artifacts or jaggies. It passed the video resolution test easily and also had no problem with the film resolution test. It did stumble on the two video-based HQV tests--showing some jaggies on a rotating white line and three pivoting lines--but we tend to give these tests less weight as there is very little Blu-ray content shot on video (as opposed to film) currently available. we started with Mission Impossible: III. We immediately took a look at the stairs at beginning of Chapter 8 and the it had no problem outputting a clean image. After spot-checking some known problematic scenes we sat down with the excellent-looking Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Details are razor sharp and the jaggies of the DVD era were nowhere to be seen. The jaggies seen on the video-based HQV tests were nowhere to be found in all the program material we watched.

 

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Rating:

5 Blu-ray rating

 

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