Sony release next generation Blu Ray player
Sony’s next-generation Blu-ray Disc player, the BDP-S350, is now available in South Africa.
The BDP-S350 supports BonusView (Picture-in-Picture), which is featured on some new Blu-ray Disc theatrical releases. It is also BD-Live ready, with an Ethernet connection to support firmware updates and access to Internet-based interactive content features.
The BDP-S350 features quick start up mode which improves the player’s boot up time to a few seconds and offers an external port for local storage for BD-Live, allowing users to add an optional storage device.
The player features 1080/60p and 24p True Cinema output. It is also compatible with most standard DVDs, up-scaling images to 1080p through an HDMI connection to capable HDTV sets.
The model also adds Sony’s new Precision Drive HD, which accurately detects and corrects wobbling discs from three directions stabilizing playback of bent or scratched Blu-ray Discs and DVDs.
The BDP-S350 supports AVCHD discs encoded with x.v.Color technology, an international standard for wide color space reproduction. The standard expands the current data range of video by about 1.8 times, allowing the player to output more natural and vivid colors, apparently similar to what the human eye can actually see.
The player is compatible with an array of video formats, including BD-R/RE (BDMV and BDAV modes), DVD+R/+RW, DVD-R/-RW, CD, CD-R/RW (CD-DA format), and JPEG on DVD/CD recordable media.
The BDP-350 will retail at around R4000 including VAT.
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