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

avenged7fold · 19-11-2008 08:27PM

Placed a deposit on it this evening. It's definetely the 350, confirmed by the guy in the shop & more importantly, on the receipt. Should be available for collection the first week in December. Can anyone reccommend a decent HDMI cable & is it worth spending a lot of money on one. Gut instinct says not!!

BArra · 19-11-2008 09:41PM

get the cheapest hdmi cable you can, dont listen to the speel salesmen give when you buy an audio/video bit of equipment.

their managment just drills them all to sell hard their 100e cables and what not.

its where they make most of their profit!

tesco had them for €2.50 recently. or else try ebay for nearly as cheap!

its a digital cable, it will either work or it wont, the ****e that the €100 cables state on their designer boxes is pretty much waffle

avenged7fold · 19-11-2008 09:54PM

BArra wrote: »

get the cheapest hdmi cable you can, dont listen to the speel salesmen give when you buy an audio/video bit of equipment.

their managment just drills them all to sell hard their 100e cables and what not.

its where they make most of their profit!

tesco had them for €2.50 recently. or else try ebay for nearly as cheap!

its a digital cable, it will either work or it wont, the ****e that the €100 cables state on their designer boxes is pretty much waffle

Totally agree with you about the salesman speel. My dad recently bought a samsung 32" LCD tv from Currys & also came home with an E80 (why does'nt my euro sign work on this bloody keyboard!?!) hdmi cable. When i asked him why he bought a hdmi cable he did'nt need he said the saleman had told him he would need it in the future. After asking him whether he planned to get sky HD or a blu ray player soon (answer was "no") i told him to bring it back & get a refund. Guess i should have told him to keep it & i could have used it!! Anyway thanks for the advice re the hdmi cable.

BArra · 19-11-2008 09:57PM

haha jaysus, save ur ol man the €80, get him to return it. you could buy 15 hdmi cables for that if not more

it sickens me that the salesmen and women say all sorts of crap to get the sale, when more often then not, they are more clueless to its use then the potential buyer

still if the buyer falls for it, its tough **** in my mind :cool:

avenged7fold · 19-11-2008 10:12PM

I would'nt do that to him (well probably not). Its already gone back & he got his credit card refunded. Let me ask you something else about my new favourite format, blu ray. I have a sony 5.1 amp which i will be hooking up to the blu ray player with a optical cable for audio (no hdmi connections on it). Obviously i cant get HD audio but will their be any improvement in sound or will it be the same as dvd player, which in fairness is pretty good. Cheers.

BArra · 19-11-2008 10:19PM

if you were using optical on the old dvd amp/home cinema, then more than likely you wont see any improvement

you def wont be getting the hd audio formats off that amp, that needs to run off a HDMI amp, your S350 of course has the HDMI, but also has the ability to decode DTS HD and Dolby True HD, but it needs to run into a decent HD amp with the built in equipment to decode the hd audio formats and spit it back out via HDMI into your bluray player and TV.

still though its gonna sound damn good and the better picture quality will be great too.

ive a ps3 myself so the pic quality on that is great, id even say its probably the best bluray player as regards updates and ability to decode DTS-HD and Dolby True HD, and you get a games console to boot at a near enough price to the standalone bluray players.

havent had the need to stump up for a hd audio capable home cinema yet, im not that bad of an audiophile(sp?) but its a noticable difference as is DVD -> Bluray

Mizu_Ger · 19-11-2008 10:31PM

Is there a limited stock for this offer? I want to get one, but won't be able to get to my local til Friday morning.

Captain Chaos · 19-11-2008 10:33PM

Is it deffinately the S350 in the deal and not the S300 thats on the XtraVision site? I can't confirm this anywhere, thanks.

Edit: Never mind just saw post 32.

boopolo · 19-11-2008 10:35PM

BArra wrote: »

get the cheapest hdmi cable you can, dont listen to the speel salesmen give when you buy an audio/video bit of equipment.

their managment just drills them all to sell hard their 100e cables and what not.

its where they make most of their profit!

tesco had them for €2.50 recently. or else try ebay for nearly as cheap!

its a digital cable, it will either work or it wont, the ****e that the €100 cables state on their designer boxes is pretty much waffle

Not all together true. They are not all the same. For hi-def sound and full HD 1080p 24 you will need a half decent hdmi1.3a compliaint one. This does not apply to Sky HD as its box does not even send its DD through HDMI (just stereo). But for Blu-ray using a True HD or DTS Master soundtrack through compatable AV receiver, it does matter. Even an optical cable cannot handle HDaudio signals.

Having said that good 1.3a compliant HDMI cables should not be very expensive. I wouldn't pay more than a 10 to 20 euro, and only pay that because at that price they are usually very strong and well made and better than the 30 quid ones sold in currys. The one from my skyHD box to AV receiver cost less than a fiver, and the optical cable about 4euro.

I bought a few cables here and they are excelent

Boo

avenged7fold · 19-11-2008 10:41PM

Thanks for confirming bout the audio. I presume the picture improvement wont be as impressive as the jump from video tape to dvd but i still cant wait to pick up the player & try it out. I was tempted to get a ps3 but still too expensive for me, nearly E150 of a difference between new sony player & ps3. Do all my gaming on PC so i wont miss it. One last question as im on a roll. What new blu ray discs have you seen that will show off the improved picture & (ok 2 questions) whats the best place to buy them, they're still fairly expensive as far as i can see. Take it easy.

BArra · 19-11-2008 10:46PM

well ask yourself this question first

can your tv support 1080P ?

good bluray discs ive seen, only on 720P mind would be Planet Earth, The Prestige, Transformers

id be very tempted by the recent release of the boxset of Band of Brothers, alas i have it on dvd unfortunately

@boopolo - fair point, but do you think most salesmen and women even have a notion about hdmi v1.3a, 1.3, 1.2 and so on? Id expect a response back from them of either blatent bluffing or "1.3a wha...?" their just offloading something they know little to nothing about, to a person who may well even not need it, or indeed need a more complient cable to maximise their viewing/listening pleasure. But i guess thats going a bit too off topic...

avenged7fold · 19-11-2008 10:48PM

Yeah, checked it out yesterday. Its a panasonic 37" plasma, has a really nice pic with dvd.

stevenmu · 19-11-2008 11:00PM

This site lists Blu Ray discs according to picture (and sound) quality.

There is NO difference between HDMI 1.3a cables and other HDMI cables, the changes in different versions related to communications protocols (i.e. what data could be sent and how the data could be interpreted). There was no change in the physical characteristics of the cables.

boopolo · 19-11-2008 11:09PM

stevenmu wrote: »

This site lists Blu Ray discs according to picture (and sound) quality.

There is NO difference between HDMI 1.3a cables and other HDMI cables, the changes in different versions related to communications protocols (i.e. what data could be sent and how the data could be interpreted). There was no change in the physical characteristics of the cables.

I never said there was a difference in characteristics. I was stressing that for high bandwidth of HD audio and 1080p together, you would need a 1.3a compliant cable so they are not all the same. Most cables in short lengths wouuld be 1.3a even budget ones. Sorry if I sounded confusing.

Boo

Dman001 · 19-11-2008 11:21PM

Wouldnt a HDMI cable come with the BluRay player though?

boopolo · 19-11-2008 11:26PM

stevenmu wrote: »

This site lists Blu Ray discs according to picture (and sound) quality.

Problem is some of the USA discs are different than the ones here. On the odd occasion, there will be TrueHD and/or DTS-MA on the US disc and only DD on the UK one. Spent hours last week on this.
www.dvd-basen.dk have links to reviews of different versions of each movie, but it is slow and irrating clicking links to different revews. There are calls out there on other forums for somebody to make a listing of uk/euro BD discs.

DVD ACTIVE has some like this.

Boo

godtabh · 19-11-2008 11:29PM

Dman001 wrote: »

Wouldnt a HDMI cable come with the BluRay player though?

Probably not

avenged7fold · 20-11-2008 12:36AM

I bought a few cables here and they are excelent

Thanks, boo. Took a look & will pick up one in the next few days. Even with postage at E7, they are still pretty cheap. Although not as cheap as the tesco ones i saw mentioned on another thread. Look better anyway & as for quality who the hell knows !!

sudo911 · 21-11-2008 10:13PM

Just looking at the Xtravision site just now, and that model is the BDPS3000, not the BDPS350.

EDIT: Just rang my local Xtravision, I'm wrong... and can confirm that it is the BDP-S350 model - in later this week with the free films.
Sudo911.

Dman001 · 21-11-2008 11:00PM

Does anyone know if you can pick and choose the BR titles? I'd prefer The Dark Night instead of Mama Mia.

avenged7fold · 21-11-2008 11:32PM

Dman001 wrote: »

Does anyone know if you can pick and choose the BR titles? I'd prefer The Dark Night instead of Mama Mia.

Would say its highly unlikely you can choose your own titles. It's even advertised in their xmas catalogue with these discs. I would prefer anything instead of mama mia but especially hellboy II.

dolittle · 21-11-2008 11:57PM

xtravision has the model as Sony Blu-Ray Player BDPS3000 on their website not the 350 , so i dont know what to think myself

pzurdo · 22-11-2008 11:19AM

dolittle wrote: »

xtravision has the model as Sony Blu-Ray Player BDPS3000 on their website not the 350 , so i dont know what to think myself

there seems confusion as to the model and I suspect that it's the 3000 that's in the offer to clear stock on an old model and the teaser is the discs. I'd prefer to pick up an offer on a panasonic. The 350 is widely available @ 249 and I wonder is anywhere offering a competing offer to that at xtravision with the free discs? any ideas?

jenno86 · 22-11-2008 12:10PM

pzurdo wrote: »

there seems confusion as to the model and I suspect that it's the 3000 that's in the offer to clear stock on an old model and the teaser is the discs. I'd prefer to pick up an offer on a panasonic. The 350 is widely available @ 249 and I wonder is anywhere offering a competing offer to that at xtravision with the free discs? any ideas?

Im working today so I'll check and I'll post up my findings later.

Dman001 · 22-11-2008 12:57PM

Well everything is pointing towards it being the 3500, going by the fact that the picture in the catalogue looks like the 3500, the 3500 model was printed on someones receipt when they preordered it and Blockbuster have the very same deal for the 3500.

godtabh · 22-11-2008 01:13PM

Its a class blu-ray player. Watched Hell Boy on it last night and I was blown away

pzurdo · 22-11-2008 02:52PM

Dman001 wrote: »

Well everything is pointing towards it being the 3500, going by the fact that the picture in the catalogue looks like the 3500, the 3500 model was printed on someones receipt when they preordered it and Blockbuster have the very same deal for the 3500.

From xtravision's site:

Sony Blu-Ray Player BDPS3000 Plus 6 Free Movies + 10 Half Price Movie Rentals

Looks like it's the BDPS3000...

Dman001 · 22-11-2008 04:20PM

Oh I never saw that. The picture of the player is the 3500 on the banner ad but when you click into it, it comes up as the 3000. We will have to wait till next week to find out, when the offer starts.

jenno86 · 22-11-2008 10:08PM

Dman001 wrote: »

Oh I never saw that. The picture of the player is the 3500 on the banner ad but when you click into it, it comes up as the 3000. We will have to wait till next week to find out, when the offer starts.

CORRECT! Checked it today and thats the model in stock.

Our man in Havana · 23-11-2008 12:45AM

Has the offer started as there is no mention of the 28th on their website.

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

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