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About Wes Novack Wesley Novack is a Technologist working in the software industry, with extensive experience building and managing highly available applications, services, and systems in the public cloud. Any Help will be realy appreciated Thanks. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. That in and of itself is not a deal breaker for me.
However, making even this scenario just a little more complicated is that the BDP-S1 lacks an Ethernet port, which would make such upgrades far easier. Instead, it's likely that you'd have to go to the web and burn an update file onto a CD or DVD disc and the load that into the player.
Not as easy as it could be, but serviceable. What's more disturbing to me about the lack of any Ethernet port is the obvious potential that Blu-ray might someday feature interactivity that requires web connectivity. Lots of features could be pulled from the Net and stored there. Nevertheless, the BDP-S1, like the other standalone BD players released so far, has eschewed the Ethernet connection and you'll be out in the cold if or when networked features make it to Blu-ray.
The BDP-S1 has two other shortcomings you should be aware of. No joke. So, if you still play CDs and dream of having a single optical disc player, sorry Charlie. Second, while there are analog outputs, they are 5. I think 7. However, with PS3's flexible, upgradeable architecture it's possible that a future system software update could remedy this.
These are the most pertinent facts about the BDP-S1 as I see them, so look for our full review to learn more detail about the ins and outs and configuration flexibility and setup of this BD player. Starting with starting the player, with a direct connection to the Pearl it consistently takes the BDP-S1 between 35 and 40 seconds to boot up to the player's on-screen menu.
Yes- not only can PS3 power up that fast, if it's powered down you can insert a BD or DVD into the drive and it will have the disc's menu loaded in under ten seconds. The Samsung can now load discs as fast as 20 seconds, but no more than Lightning McQueen it ain't. Before getting off of disc access and usability, the BDP-1 is good, but again slower than the PS3 with chapter skips and moving through the pop-up disc menus that come up with the movie running full motion.
There's a moment's hesitation with the standalone player, while the PS3 just flies. Also, scanning back and forth is choppy, and the BDP-S1 pauses the image for a second or two at first, and sometimes pauses to a still during a scan forward or backward. In these few early days, the BDP-S1 has locked up on the menus for X-Men United , requiring me to reload the disc, and several times during scanning through scenes has locked into slow motion instead of regular speed, and has sometimes skipped several chapters instead of one at a time.
Re-booting the BDP seems to fix it for a while. All-in-all we've had lots of reboot problems with that bluray player, and have replaced a few. It was working fine until after doing the latest firmware update, Now the rear IR port has become intermittent. Any thoughts on this? I would much rather use the rear port if I can. This cannot be undone. The Group moderators are responsible for maintaining their community and can address these issues.
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