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Sony's Next-Generation Blu-ray Disc Player Now Available at Sony Style Stores and Retailers Across the Country

NEW YORK, July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony's next-generation Blu-ray Disc player, model BDP-S350, is now available across the country at Sony Style retail outlets, sonystyle.com and other authorized Sony retailers. The BDP-S350 supports BonusView (picture-in-picture), which is featured on select new Blu-ray Disc home video releases, and is also BD-Live ready, with an Ethernet port for easy firmware updates and access to Internet-based interactive content features. A firmware update enabling BD-Live is planned later this year. It also features quick start-up mode improving the player's boot-up time to approximately a few seconds and offers an external port for local storage for BD-Live, allowing users to add an optional flash storage device (sold separately).

Sony ships S350 Blu-ray player for $400, firmware awaited

Sony's latest entry-level Blu-ray player might be sleeker than its predecessor, but pricing hasn't come down any.

Sony Ships BDP-S350 BD-Live Ready Blu-ray Player

Sony announced this week that its next-generation Blu-ray Disc player is now available at retailers across the country. The BDP-S350 supports BonusView (picture-in-picture) and is BD-Live ready. Sony plans to release a firmware update that will enable BD-Live later this year.

Sony Intros Slim BonusView & BD-Live Blu-ray Player

Sony’s BDP-S350 Blu-ray Disc player supports BonusView (featured on select new Blu-ray discs), and is also BD-Live ready, with an Ethernet port for firmware updates and access to Internet-based interactive content features. Sony vows that a firmware update enabling BD-Live is planned for later this year.

Sony ships BDP-S350

Sony on Wednesday shipped the BDP-S350, a new incarnation of its S300 Blu-ray player that is based off Blu-ray Profile 2.0, which introduces a number of new features, including access to BD-Live Internet extras. Sony bills the player as BD-Live ready, saying that a patch will be available later this year, which can be downloaded through the player's built-in Ethernet port. In addition, the BDP-S350 adds support for BonusView (picture-in-picture), while featuring a speedier boot time and an external port for local BD-Live storage.

The Criterion Collection's Reference Blu-ray Player: The Playstation 3

ps3120-3.jpgThe folks at the Criterion Collection know a thing or two about movies. They restore classic films for release on DVD and, starting later this year, Blu-ray. So when they set up their screening rooms, you'd expect them to have some crazy $1,000 Blu-ray player, right? Nope. The Criterion Collection people rock a PlayStation 3 for use as their reference Blu-ray player. If you needed further proof that the PS3 is the best Blu-ray player out there, now you have it. [CNET]

Sony?€™s web-friendly Blu-Ray player hits

Sony BDP-S350Now Blu-Ray’s firmly in the driving seat for HD discs, Sony’s pulling no punches and piling next-gen features into its players. The new BDP-S350 is the first deck from Sony to support full BD-Live features. That means Blu-Ray discs are about to go interactive like never before.

Sony Ships BDP-S350 Blu-ray Player

New York — Sony revealed at a press review here Wednesday that it is now shipping its $399 BDP-S350 Blu-ray Disc player, which is approximately 40 percent smaller than the previous model, uses between 30 percent and 40 percent less packing material and has been re-engineered to significantly reduce its power consumption.

Sony Blu-ray player is no PS3

(CNET) -- Sony has been the public face of Blu-ray since the format's inception, and while most of the focus during the bitter Blu-ray vs. HD DVD format war was on the company's PlayStation 3, Sony has been making stand-alone Blu-ray players from the start, beginning with the $1,000 BDP-S1.

Sony Ships Next-Gen Blu-ray Player with BD-Live

Sony on Wednesday announced that you can now purchase its next-generation Blu-ray Disc player, the BDP-S350.

Sony's Next-Generation Blu-ray Disc Player Now Available at Sony Style Stores and Retailers Across the Country

Sony's Next-Generation Blu-ray Disc Player Now Available at Sony Style Stores and Retailers Across the Country

Sony to open up Blu-ray as a "social network"

Sounds a bit like someone is mixing up their internet buzzwords. The head of Sony Electronics' US division, Stan Glasgow, has some interesting ideas for the future of Blu-ray, revealing that "We're going to have to open [Blu-ray] up as a social network--not just contributions of Sony and other Blu-ray partners."

IFA 2008 ? Sony Unveils Blu-ray Player Line-Up

If prices are any indication, Blu-ray is beginning to reach the mass market. Even players from big brands are becoming more affordable, reaching the €250 mark. Sony is no exception and is unveiling its new Blu-ray players BDP-S350 and BDP-S550, which will cost €330 and €440 respectively. These models are updated versions of the current BDP models S300 and S500.

Sony BDP-350 finally set to arrive in Canada

Sony's next gen Blu-ray player now shippingA month ago, Digital Home reported that Sony had released its next-generation standalone Blu-ray Disc player, the BDP-S350 in North America. Later we learned that for Sony, North America only meant the United States and not Canada.

Sony Launches Next-Gen Blu-ray Player

Sony says its next-generation Blu-ray player is now available at Sony Style retail outlets and at the company's web site, SonyStyle.com.

Sony Offers Budget Blu-ray Player

Sony seems to be at the cutting edge with regard to technology, on the back of its recently released super-slim T77 camera comes a super-slim Blu-ray player designed for the budget market.

Sony announces high-end Blu-ray player

Breaking this year's IFA mould and not just announcing yet another new flat-screen telly, Sony has unveiled a Blu-ray player for those that laugh in the face of the credit crunch.

Sony Releases 2.41 PS3 Firmware

Bad news spreads fast in today's world, so when Sony released the 2.40 PS3 firmware update last week it wasn't long before reports of problems started to emerge, with some being unlucky enough to brick their console with the update. Sony therefore made the decision to take down the 2.40 update while they ironed out the problems, with the result being today's 2.41 firmware. Sony are now confident that the issues with 2.40 have been resolved, and have extended their apologies to the Playstation community for any inconvenience caused. 2.41 doesn't add any additional features over 2.40, and Sony hasn't said what it will do about the consoles that were bricked by the 2.40 firmware yet.

Sony's New BD Live Enabled Blu-ray Players

Sony last night introduced its latest standalone Blu-ray Disc players, both incorporating the latest Blu-ray interactivity features.

Toshiba Forgets HD-DVD. Remembers DVD

Toshiba got its clock cleaned by Sony by supporting the HD DVD format over Sony's Blu-ray discs. But the next-generation video war really didn't have any winners. Even with HD DVDs out of the running, Sony can't seem to sell enough Blu-ray players to afford enough red ink to print a chart of how bad they're doing with the format; if it wasn't for the Blu-ray player in the Playstation 3, next to no one would have one. And now Toshiba's back, and angling towards fighting the next-gen hi-def wars one more time: Let's go back to watching standard DVDs, played back in Toshiba's Extended Detail Enhancement players (XDE).

Sony Wants to Make Blu-Ray More Interactive.

Just in case customers were sure that Blu-ray disc (BD) profile 2.0 was the final one for the format, Sony Corp. said that it would be glad to add further features would add features that will further differentiate Blu-ray from DVD, but which may potentially involve a new profile and hardware changes.

Sony's Stan Glasgow Talks TVs, Blu-ray

Stan Glasgow is either the most down to earth PR person Sony has or the company is taking a new direction with its marketing. This interview has some really interesting nuggets in it for Blu-ray fans and, as mentioned above, it is a surprisingly realistic assessment of where Blu-ray is at today:

High Quality Toshiba DVD Player Challenges Blu ray

Toshiba may have found a new way to win the Blu ray war? After losing out in a head on HD DVD Vs Blu ray battle Toshiba has developed a low cost DVD player that delivers quality that several journalists in the USA have said was "excellent".

Sony launches BDP-S350 and BDP-S550 Blu-ray players in the UK

After a long wait from Sony's first announcement, its two latest Blu-ray players are finally available to buy in the UK.

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