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Sony BDP-S1 Blu-ray player demo

Posted by saywhat (A) on December 3, 2006 at 10:21:25

I wandered into my local BB store yesterday and they had just finished setting up the Sony Blu-ray player hooked to a Sony 40" 1080p LCD HDTV. The Blu-ray demo disc was very impressive.

But, I asked the salesman to pop in a standard definition DVD to see how well the Sony upscales and it was terrible, very grainy. The movie was "Italian Job".

The salesman just put the disk in and hit play, he did not go to a menu and pick any specific resolution or other options. In his defense the player was brand new to him and he didn't know if there was a way to improve the PQ via settings or options.

So, hopefully you can get better PQ on standard DVDs with the Sony, but based I what I saw I would not buy it. I have also seen a demo of the Toshiba HD-DVD A1 player on a standard DVD and it looked great.

Anyone have experience with Sony on standard DVD PQ?

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