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Sony BDP-S350

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 standalone Blu-ray players from the start, beginning with the $1,000 BDP-S1. Unfortunately, that...

Tags: Consumer electronics, DVD, Game players, Media players, Monitors & displays, TV & Home Theater, Sony BDP-S350, Sony Corp., Sony PlayStation 3

Product reviews 2008-08-05

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Full Wal-Mart Black Friday ad hits Internet, complete with Samsung, Sony HDTV deals

If you read yesterday's post, you already know about a few of Wal-Mart's Black Friday home theater deals, including a $78 Blu-ray player. At long last, Wal-Mart's full Black Friday ad has hit the Web, and it includes some of those brand names that the earlier deals lacked. ...

Tags: Sony Corp., Home Theater, Advertisement, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Internet, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., HDTV, LCD, 1080p, Home Entertainment, Tv & Home Theater, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-11-18

Sony to charge $24.95 for Bravia owners to rent "Chance of Meatballs" before DVD release

Leveraging some synergy between its electronics arm and its movie studio, Sony announced today that it's going to offer its hit kiddies flick "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" to owners of select Bravia home theater gear a full month before it's released on DVD. The price for this privilege—and...

Tags: Sony Corp., Movie, Pricing Strategy, DVD, Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-11-09

Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Blu-ray Players/Home Theater Systems

With prices for both players and discs plunging, this may be the holiday season for Blu-ray. Already online movie streaming is making inroads—even on Blu-ray players themselves. Some of these picks are integrating on-demand video services into their feature sets, hoping to keep themselves relevant in...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Disc, Blu-ray, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-11-01

Sony wises up, unveils new networked Blu-ray player with Netflix, Slacker support

It was just a couple of days ago I was complaining about Sony's decision to introduce a Blu-ray player with built-in Wi-Fi into the marketplace without offering any of the Internet services that other connected home theater devices are already offering. Now Sony appears to be...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., Sony Corp., Blu-ray, BDP-N460, Wireless LANs, Home Entertainment, Wi-Fi, Consumer Electronics, Tv & Home Theater, Wireless And Mobility, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-09-09

Sony's Blu-ray player with built-in Wi-Fi, no interesting Internet services available this week

If you're looking for a cheaper alternative to buying an Internet-ready HDTV, and don't need all of the widgets the sets will be rolling out, a networked Blu-ray player could be a viable option. Most importantly, these units are offering the same Netflix and Amazon On Demand video-streaming...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., Sony Corp., built-In, LG Electronics Inc., HDTV, Blu-ray, Internet Service, Wireless LANs, Internet, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, TVs, Web Site Development, Tv & Home Theater, Wireless And Mobility, Networking, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-09-07

Oppo BDP-83

Photo gallery:Oppo BDP-83Ever since standalone Blu-ray players hit the market, there's been a great deal of anticipation for an Oppo Blu-ray player, mainly because of the company's reputation for making excellent upconverting DVD players. Oppo held out for quite some time, and in retrospect it was a smart move; almost...

Tags: Consumer electronics, Home entertainment, Blu-ray, DVD, Oppo BDP-83

Product reviews 2009-09-02

The Internet's migration to the TV

Or use Windows Media Centerand do pretty much everything you talked about now. Or a few years ago.And no, Apple won't do a DVR. Why let you record for free (well, what you are paying already) when they can try to sell it to you from iTunes?RE: The...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, TV, Internet, interactivity

Discussion threads 2009-08-26

Gadget Gal's daily deals: 80GB iPod, Sony Blu-ray player, 50-inch LG HDTV

A refurbished 80GB Apple iPod, a Sony Blu-ray player, and an LG 50-inch HDTV. Here are your daily deals for Tuesday, July 28, straight from the Gadget Gal: 1. Get the refurbished Apple 5th Generation 80GB iPod Video for $140, including free shipping, at Buy.com. The iPod...

Tags: Sony Corp., Apple iPod, Player, LG Electronics Inc., HDTV, Blu-ray, Digital Music, Digital Media, TVs, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Home Entertainment, Jennifer Bergen

Blog posts 2009-07-28

Sony introduces massive Blu-ray disc changers for the one guy with 400 Blu-ray discs

Having made disc-changer units for CDs and traditional DVDs in the past, Sony inevitably had to make them for Blu-ray discs, which it's apparently finally ready to do. The company has announced two new "megachangers" that can hold and play up to 400 Blu-ray titles. ...

Tags: Sony Corp., Blu-ray Disc, Disc, Blu-Ray, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-07-24

Sony BDV-E500W

Now that Blu-ray players are officially a $100 commodity, it's no surprise that manufacturers are trying to cram the technology into home theater systems at the lowest price possible. Sony's BDV-E500W ($800) takes a decidedly more high-end approach, offering Blu-ray playback in a 5.1 home-theater-in-a-box HTIB system, with step-ups like...

Tags: Home entertainment, Consumer electronics, surround speaker, Sony BDV-E500W, Sony Corp., speaker, home theater

Product reviews 2009-07-20

Sony HT-SS360

Photo gallery:Sony HT-SS360Home-theater-in-a-box systems have been around forever, but the latest marketing angle is the "Blu-ray ready HTIB." The new phrase simply means that the system consists of a surround-sound-speaker system and an AV receiver, so you only need to add a Blu-ray player to complete your home theater. The...

Tags: subwoofer, Sony HT-SS360, speaker, HTIB, Sony Corp., center channel

Product reviews 2009-05-21

Sony BDP-S360

Photo gallery:Sony BDP-S360Blu-ray may have started out as a mess, with confusing "profiles" and painfully slow load times, but beginning this year standalone players have finally gotten their acts together. Sony's entry-level BDP-S360 is typical of the new breed of Blu-ray players. It has the basics covered, with Profile 2.0...

Tags: Sony BDP-S360, Sony Corp.

Product reviews 2009-04-14

Sony BDP-S360 photos

The Sony BDP-S360 handles all the Blu-ray basics with ease, but it lacks the streaming internet content found on competing models. by CNET News.com

Tags: Sony Corp., Photograph, Sony BDP-S360, Internet, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-04-14

Sony debuts Blu-ray player with built-in wireless networking support

I know I'm not alone in not being able to figure out Sony's strategy from one product offering to the next, and once again I'm scratching my head a bit. At the same time the company is unveiling new networked TVs with Ethernet connections (providing faster...

Tags: Sony Corp., Network, Player, built-In, Wireless Networking, Blu-ray, Wireless, Ethernet, Network Technology, Networking, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-03-05

Insignia NS-2BRDVD

Photo gallery:Insignia NS-2BRDVDWhen you opt for a budget product rather than a name brand, it usually means you're looking for "good enough" instead of perfect. The Insignia NS-2BRDVD, from one of Best Buy's in-house suppliers, is a classic example of the former. The Blu-ray player lacks step-up features (such...

Tags: Home entertainment, Consumer electronics, Overall IT, Insignia NS-2BRDVD

Product reviews 2009-02-18

Philips BDP-7200

When first announced at CES, the Philips BDP7200 grabbed some headlines with its $350 price tag, which was $50 less than the Sony PlayStation 3. Well, a couple of months have passed and apparently Philips couldn't live up to its promise. The BDP7200 is now going for $400, precisely the...

Tags: DVD, Consumer electronics, Philips BDP7200, Philips Electronics N.V.

Product reviews 2008-04-28

Blu-ray player prices spike - wow, who could have seen that one coming?

I had put myself on a self-imposed exile of sorts on writing about high-def DVDs , but a post over at Tom's Hardware got me all riled up, so I'm lifting the ban. Turns out that since January 1 (right before the pre-CES announcement that Warner Brothers was leaving HD...

Tags: Player, Blu-ray, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Ethernet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Networking, Josh Taylor

Blog posts 2008-03-13

Is Blu-ray worth it?

Now that Netflix and Best Buy are in the Blu-ray camp and Toshiba is reportedly admitting defeat, you may be thinking about buying a Blu-ray player. I've been using a Blu-ray disk player and a half dozen Blu-ray movies for a couple of months. Is Blu-ray worth it? The short...

Tags: Disk, Player, Blu-ray, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-02-13

Sony BDP-S300

As one of the major players in the Blu-ray vs. HD DVD format war, we weren't surprised when Sony announced a price drop for the BDP-S300 to the relatively low list price of $500. Despite the fact that we've been wowed by Blu-ray's image quality, price has always been a...

Tags: Blu-ray, Home entertainment, Consumer electronics, DVD, Game players, TV & Home Theater, Games, Sony BDP-S300, Sony Corp., Blu-ray disc

Product reviews 2007-07-16