Bro g5sim sudah tukar gambar so fast, now supporting Blu-Ray camp liao. Hahaha. Toshiba sure will be very sad.

Even though the players are priced from USD400 to USD500, our local punya BDP-S300 already RM2,900 and I bet this model will be priced in the range of RM3K to RM5K. Hai ........ If it's less than RM2K, I'll definitely angkat the top model. The design looks nice for a blu-ray player and with profile 2.0 ready, I guess that's put it on par with Panasonic upcoming blu-ray player, also profile 2.0 ready. I wonder whether there are other new profile revisions in the future. I very takut liao, because the blu-ray camp got macam-macam punya profiles which can cause blu-ray compatibility problems.

Even Sharp blu-ray player also Profile 1.0 but was never highlighted in their brochure and they pakat with Speedy to market it by giving a few free blu-ray movies.

The PS3 rocks when playing blu-ray movies, very quick start up times, followed by Sharp's Aquos BD player but do remember the PS3 is still a software based player, it doesn't have a dedicated hardware so the deinterlacing performance might not be on par with dedicated standalone BD players and secondly, PS3 consumes a lot of power if compared to a dedicated BD player so not good for the environment and also your pocket.

I'm stating the facts bro, standalone blu-ray player consumes 38 watts, PS3 consumes 200 watts, you can do the Maths but however, new PS3 consoles will consume less power when the Cell processor is reduced to 65nm later this year.

If I'm not wrong, it does bistream DTS-MA.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1046952

Well, so far, I only read that it can't output DTS-MA via PCM, only Core. Well, don't forget the PS3 doesn't have a DTS-MA logo too and it can decode it internally.

Bro Aiman is right, my Toshiba A35 bitstreamed two hd-dvd movies using DTS-HR (1.5 mbps), the DTS-MA logo won't light up, that's true for Yamaha and Denon AV receivers so I have a reason to believe that S350 can output DTS-MA via bitstream. The AV receiver will be able to detect the signal.

It will light up when the signal received is DTS-MA and if it doesn't light up, then something is definitely wrong with the settings.

There's seems to be a lot argument and confusion here over the S350 blu-ray player, some say it can't output DTS-MA via bitstream but actually it should be, it can't decode DTS-MA and output it via LPCM like our PS3 but for those with an AV receiver that can decode all types of lossless audio codecs, the S350 will work fine. If there's an option to use bitstreaming for my PS3, I'll definitely use it, I'm pretty sure the sound quality will be better since there's less jitter via bitstreaming.

I think the summary written here is pretty good, less confusing for all.
http://forums.highdefdigest.com/showpost.p...47&postcount=44

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.

You don't like Panny BD50 meh?

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

That's right, if the AV receiver can only accept LPCM and can't decode lossless audio codecs on board, it will get a DTS Core track from DTS-MA tracks via LPCM. I guess I didn't misunderstood this one from the beginning.

Anyone knows what solution will be used to deinterlace dvds when they're played on a S350? What Video DAC is used for BD? Any info on that?

That's the problem, the video processing chip must be an all in one solution punya I guess.

Wah, jealous lo.
I dun even know what to do with the digital copies.

The digital copies are in WMV, rite? Never used them before.

BJ, Hitman and The Eye also have digital copies too, rite?

It will even be a much sweeter deal if they can include WMV HD version in the digital copy as well.

I believe the S350 is targetted at BD30's price range but feature wise, S350 is capable to be a Profile 2.0 player via a firmware update but BD30 will permanently be a Profile 1.1 player only. As for the PQ, it's very subjective unless we have two players side by side to compare but if the PQ is better looking that the PS3, then it's worth considering them provided they have decent load times with BD movies.

To be honest, PS3 is still the winner if compared to S350 and BD30. The recent reviews pointed that BD50 is slightly better than PS3 in PQ but need to compare a few reviews first. If slightly better aje and need to pay RM3,999 for it, then I better stick to my PS3 first. This is Malaysia, our BD players are priced like BMWs.