what if BDA all of the sudden says - region coding takes affect tonight at midnight EST ? now that there is no competition for hires optical?

g5sim, u think too much

okie okie - dun think = i go take shower and go to sleep

I believe if u can save RM1k then u should go for it right? So I will look oversea 1st. Maybe just over bridge to the south if cheaper

Yep BD region is the same for US, Japs n SEA so no worries. Already got Pioneer 600AV for my Amazon R1 DVDs (actually can play all region coz I got a few R3 love story bought by my wife at Speedy)

Well, the reason is simple actually, the S550 is for people with an AV receiver which only accepts PCM signals via HDMI or it could accept an 8 channel analogue inputs. It might have built in flash memory but that's not the main selling point. I wouldn't mind spending a little more for S550 if it has better picture quality and faster loading times than S350. The S350's loading time is still a little bit behind the PS3, I do hope Panny's BD50 will perform much better and hopefully, it's not the same thing as the BD30 model. If they upgraded the BD30 model and taruh BD Live and package it as a new model, I'll be disappointed for sure.

I guess from neigbouring countries like Thailand, Singapore or even Hong Kong. Not sure whether their prices will be as good as in the US though. USD399 is not cheap but at least, it's much lower than before.

u statedudun wan buy overseas mar...

I said I don't want to buy US version with 120V input. Not that I don't want to buy oversea. I purchase things from oversea on a regular basis so not a problem for me

Blu-ray Disc Region Coding:

Cool. U r very informative

No problem bro. Always glad to share.

aiyoh, how i know, i say spore, u sayspore also overseas mar
arremie, just wait, i think another 2 -3 moons would be a better time for you to decide

Yep no rush on this one. Anyway I fixed my mind on S350 la for the time being. Almost buy PS3 but lucky I found out PS3 can't bitstream thanks to you guys

yea, i like the S350 as well.....

You don't like Panny BD50 meh?

bro, u wan buy for me ar? tat price overkill lar

I thought you got lubang to buy it from S'pore.

i buy from spore, buyt u pay for me lar

But then, according to the post by Thalium at hideftdigest - the S350 can bitstream dts-hd-ma FULLY. if your receiver is capable of doing PCM via HDMI 1.30 then there S350 will do just fine. So basically, the additional $200 for S550 is for the 5.1 analogue out. I hope the connectors are made of platinum

wat has tat got to do with pcm? macam ps3? the s350 decode internally and send out as pcm?

btw, was in LG fair semalam, saw their brochure abt this Hidef player, BH200 , one moment the fella says sold out, another moment he says its launching in 2 moons time, its a BD and HD dvd player, and macam can decode all HD audio. he says shud be ard 1999, i say so cheap ar? i tot that model phase out liao, or still ada?

RX, I think he still misunderstood what PCM and bitstream is all about.

An AVR with internally/onboard decoding of DTS-HD MA is required to pair with the S350, because the S350 can't send DTS-HD MA as PCM, only bitstream.