Sony BluRay Player with 6 free BluRay Discs and movie rental vouchers €249.99.

PIMPHO

Nice one! PS3 it is then! Bring on the Jan sales!

Ya sorry about temporarily hijacking the thread! Feck the Jan sales, going to buy one in HK! PS3 80gb works out around €260!!

TouchingVirus

Thread hijack is over? Phew!

I tried ringing Sony yesterday but I never got an answer, will try tomorrow and see if they're still having problems with their website & if my order went through

Rev. Kitchen

PIMPHO wrote: »

Good stuff. Made up on getting the PS3 now! Does it only upscale normal dvds to 720p? I've got a HD Ready LCD 1080i so the PS3 should upscale dvds to 1080i, ya?

It does but ive put mine back down from 1080i to 720p i think on the larger screen (42")it makes a little difference. But its the kind of difference between brilliant and awesome

PIMPHO

Rev. Kitchen wrote: »

It does but ive put mine back down from 1080i to 720p i think on the larger screen (42")it makes a little difference. But its the kind of difference between brilliant and awesome

I've got a 40" so will be watching it in all its glory at 1080i!! Can't wait!

Our man in Havana

1080p true cinema for the win.

mathie

Rev. Kitchen wrote: »

PS3 without question the blue ray player can only play films the ps3 can do that and games and stream from PCs.

Doesn't the PS3 produce far more noise than this standalone Blu Ray player?

TouchingVirus

Another reason I went for the standalone player mathie, I heard it does

godtabh

Bond-007 wrote: »

1080p true cinema for the win.

You cant beat it!

PIMPHO

mathie wrote: »

Doesn't the PS3 produce far more noise than this standalone Blu Ray player?

Sure I won't hear it as I'll have it hooked up to the surround sound system! BOOM!

Ya I know you can't beat 1080P but don't have a Full HD LCD yet so will have to make do with 1080i. Ah well, beggars can't be choosers,eh?! :P

xbox36016

do you get a email off sony after reg?

Our man in Havana

Nope.

Valentia

Got it!! :P

Fine picture and sound but holy jazus does it drive like a steamroller. What's this " you may have to wait 2 or 3 minutes" lark? Stop play and you are politely told that you will have to start replay from the start of the film?? The network needs another add on to connect wirelessly??

Holy moley but there was a lot about Blu Ray I didn't know. I'm a little beyond the games age but the PS3 ia a million times better value and so much quicker. (My son has one in his appartment)

Just about worth it for the picture but Blu Ray has a bit to go or thr machines a good poke processor wise.

Oh yeah and what's the crack with having to buy a memory stick to get extra fewtures :eek:

sudo911

Just updated my BDP-S350 using the region hack, and all works perfectly.

Even plays R1 RCE titles with no problems at all!

Excellente!

Sudo911

godtabh

sudo911 wrote: »

Just updated my BDP-S350 using the region hack, and all works perfectly.

Even plays R1 RCE titles with no problems at all!

Excellente!

Sudo911

Was that with a one for all remote? Which one? And its only dvd region hack

Our man in Havana

Tbh, it is pointless trying to hack it because it will void your warranty.

You can easily buy a very cheap hacked player for watching region 1 DVDs.

Macer123

Would appreciate a bit of help, bought this blu ray player and have connected it to TV using HDMI cable. Picture is perfect but I'm having to turn the sound up to setting 40 on my tv, were as I watch regular TV (sky SD) on volume setting 10. I expect I'm doing something or set something wrong. Thanks !!

Mizu_Ger

Bond-007 wrote: »

Tbh, it is pointless trying to hack it because it will void your warranty.

Making it DVD Region Free doesn't void the warranty. You're not actually modifying it (hardware or firmware).

Our man in Havana

That is typical of DVD players in general. Set the audio to Dolby 5.1 and see it that helps.

Our man in Havana

Mizu_Ger wrote: »

Making it DVD Region Free doesn't void the warranty. You're not actually modifying it (hardware or firmware).

Sony would disagree with you there.
You are obviously making changes to the player so that you can play disks that were not intended to be played on that player.

Makaveli

Have you got a source on Sony voiding warranties based on changing the region of a player where no hardware modifications were made or the player opened?

Standard Toaster

sudo911 wrote: »

Just updated my BDP-S350 using the region hack, and all works perfectly.

Even plays R1 RCE titles with no problems at all!

Excellente!

Sudo911

What remote did you use?

sudo911

kearnsr wrote: »

Was that with a one for all remote? Which one? And its only dvd region hack

Used my Logitech Harmony 885 to set the region-free. I was concerned that it would only set it to region 0 - but RCE titles would not work with that setup so was pleasantly surprised when I tested it.

I posted somewhere here on boards about how to do it - but there are two methods.... using a Harmony all-in-one remote control, or those All4one remotes you can get in Argos.

AVJunkie over at AVForums has setup a profile on the Logitech Harmony website that you can log into and then download the codes to your remote control. It's all macro based, so you just power on your player - hit one button on the remote - and hey presto 5 seconds later you are region free!

The profile you download also the hack for the Pioneer and Panasonic players. Once you are finished, you can just log back into your own profile and download your original settings onto the remote.

Sudo911.

sudo911

Mizu_Ger wrote: »

Making it DVD Region Free doesn't void the warranty. You're not actually modifying it (hardware or firmware).

Agreed, the hack I used is soft-based.... they are the same codes from a Sony engineering remote. Perfectly safe

ZygOte

the groutch wrote: »

in Peats on Dame Street you can get it with 5 films (including hancock, wall-e & mamma mia) for the same €249 and no pre-ordering

Sale price now €219

Dman001

ZygOte wrote: »

Sale price now €219

Nice price, any other sale prices?

GiftGrub100

There is a setting you can change in the menu to adjust the volume, It is in the audio settings and you have to switch the player to output volume for TV I think it is the ATT setttings. (not near the system to check)

This will give a normal volume when watching on a regular TV and not using Surround Sound System.

I have had the problem and this cured it, although I only had the issue with Blu Ray discs not regular DVD's. Had to play Dark Knight at 55% volume rather than 25% to hear the soundtrack, this brought it back to normal.

Macer123

GiftGrub100 wrote: »

There is a setting you can change in the menu to adjust the volume, It is in the audio settings and you have to switch the player to output volume for TV I think it is the ATT setttings. (not near the system to check)

This will give a normal volume when watching on a regular TV and not using Surround Sound System.

I have had the problem and this cured it, although I only had the issue with Blu Ray discs not regular DVD's. Had to play Dark Knight at 55% volume rather than 25% to hear the soundtrack, this brought it back to normal.

Thanks GiftGrub I'll give that a try & report back !!

B0X

I just bought this player (Its great by the way) and cannot for the life of me get the online registration to work. I really dont want to be swindled out of two free movies here. I've gotten to the part where you must create a "My sony" account with absolutely no luck. i keep getting an "invalid request" Agh sorry for this rant, i can't help it.

Maybe some of you guys have had a similar problem?

Standard Toaster

See my posts on page 11 & 12 on this thread. Managed to do it eventually!

B0X

The_Edge wrote: »

See my posts on page 11 & 12 on this thread. Managed to do it eventually!

Had a look at your posts, thanks. Sounds like the same thing alright.

When you tried to do it again did it tell you the disk has already been used to register? If that's the case why didnt i get an email about it?