taki mały cytacik dla tych co nie wierzą że nowsze może być gorsze
Facet chciał zmienić 500 na 350 /to to samo co 550 tylko z uboższą płytką audio/
cytat z:
http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=40476&page=19
"In all the excitement over the Sony BDP s350's features and prices,
I went and bought one recently.
Upon first viewing of a familiar Blu-Ray movie, I packed it up and sent it back within a few days.
I am a professional photographer and work a lot with advanced Photoshop tecchniques, so perhaps I am more sensitive to visual quality that the average viewer. Maybe not.
A month ago, I bought a Sony BDP s500 friom my local Best Buy along with a PS3 Playstation for comparison, planning to return the one that lost the shootout within 30 days.
Despite an avalanche of reviews and forum comments that touted the
Playstation as the technical visual equal of the s500 with the added bonus of playing games and costing 33 percent less, I found the Playstation 3 was far inferior visually. Slightly less sharp, colors less saturated, no deep true rich colors, no perfectly black colors, etc., on my 46-imch Sony Bravia XBR2. As a photographer, I could not justify putting up with a significantly inferior visual quality in trade for saving money, having the thing boot up more quickly, etc.
While enjoying the beauty of the s500, the $600-plus tax price was more than I wanted to pay. Then I saw internet stories on the coming s350 and
s550 models which promised significant upgrades at significantly less cost
($350 and $500).
Looking at every review available on the net on both models, I found no information whatsoever about the video cards used in each model. Salesmen at local stores could only mumble something about the Blue-Ray engines are all the same - the only difference is the sound quality, they said. On all forums, people were fiercely talking about the convenience/inconvenience of waiting for the units to boot up, downloading capabiliy of various software upgrades, and the capability of various supersonically advanced sound systems that don't interest me.
Nothing whatsoever about the image and technical matters that made one better or worse than the competition. Nothing.
Based upon this critically incomplete information, I returned the Sony BDP
s500 to Best Buy and went ahead and ordered a Sony BDP s350 online, happy that I was cutting my price from $600 plus tax, to $365 door to door. Every source I had encountered claimed that there was no difference whatsoever in the visual output.
I got the Sony BDP s350 two days ago, quickly set it up, got a copy of Fools Gold which had been a good example of the best 20 Blu Ray movies I'd tried on the Sony BDP S500 and was ready to enjoy my thrifty, best-value choice.
From the first minute, the s350 visuals on the movie I had seen and loved were sadly inferior. Compared to the Sony BDP s500, the Sony s350 was:
Noticeably less sharp.
Colors were murkier, almost cloudy by comparison.
Colors were less saturated.
Blacks were not black but greyer.
Brightest colors were muted by comparison.
I thought I had suddenly developed glaucoma.
Not trusting my impressions, I took the my rented copy of Fools Gold to Best Buy and had a salesman put it in a Sony BDP s500 Blu-Ray player on a similarly high end TV and suspicions were confirmed.
Then I had him put it in a Sony BDP s350 display and suspicions were
doubly confirmed.
"Look at the colors," he said. "They were murky by comparision. You were right."
I know all about showroom setups on Vivid Color and all of that. But even if the s350 were on Vivid and set up to pop as usual, the colors were markedly different -- and markedly inferior on the Sony BDP s350.
Now I might wait for the Sony BDP s550 with its presumably upgraded features and $100 lesser price.
But having walked me through the comparision, the salesman offered this observation. "They all talk about the Blu-Ray engine and how it is the same," he said. "But there is very little available in the literature about the quality of video card in each unit. While you can be sure that the s550 will be improved on many fronts, they say nothing about the video card. It is possible that the s550 may downgrade the video card while offering all these new improved specs to pay for the new lower price on the s550."
While Best Buy can't offer a deal on the soon-to-be-outdated s500, I looked on the Internet and found Circuit City offering a Sony BDP s500 for $500.
I suspect that is the current way to go for persons who value the visual quality above all in their Blu Ray players. The Sony BDP s500 may be big and relatively unwieldy and you may have to wait a minute or two longer for the movies to boot up, but from what I've seen, the wait is more than worth it.
"
i jeszcze jeden cytat- z zupełnie innej strony:
http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/14/sony-bdp-s350-review/
"But as much as we enjoyed Sony's latest player, unless you have to have the new codec support, we wouldn't recommend throwing out your BDP-S300"