I just saw S360 in Sg's Comex yesterday - selling for S$399 and the offer was -  get 5 BDs with just S$50.

That would mean : can get the player + 5 BDs with RM1100.  (using a rate of 2.45).

That's how competition plays there - at the same time, Samsung's BD-P1600 was going for S$399, with free S$100 voucher of Gramaphone shops, Philips BD (gosh I can't remember the model)was going for S279 no frill,  LG was a bit off - its BD370 was going for S$450 (salesman stupidly said free gift was a HDMI cable).

was deciding between sony and samsung and eventually I went for samsung as it has 2 USB port (1 for wireless and 1 for external storage).  Tested it with King Kong, Transformers,  the speed was way way faster than PS3.  Tested MKV of phantom - picture was fine but no audio (had no time to analyse why yet), MKV of transformers - perfect, color is more vivid then that of I used HDX1000 and WDTV to play, MKV of the last samurai 720p, perfect, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Remux with DTSHD, perfect.

Overall I am very satisfied with this entry level thing.

Coaxial can't carry HD audio because of the bandwidth limitation, you'll only get lossy DTS/Dolby Digital if you bitstream, and stereo if you send multi-channel PCM. Check the second post in the BD thread for more info.

If your AVR doesn't have HDMI, your last option is analogue multi-channel connection. This method you'll need to get a BD player with multi-channel analogue ouputs. Don't think the Sony BDP-S360 has that, not sure about the Samsungs though.

Try it with the analogue outs, its less bright thru the analogue outs. I believe with the new DACs it will sound better as well. SACDs sound fantastic though, as do DVD-A. The analogue outs use different DACs.