Sony BDP-S350 Blu-ray Player to Support BD-Live

Sony has announced it’s shipping the BDP-S350 Blu-ray player that’ll support all the promised features for the new format. The good news it’s going for $400, making a new BD player even more attractive. 

Out of the box you’ll find Sony’s new player supports BonusView, Blu-ray’s picture-in-picture capability for profile 1.1. Not a moment too early as we’ve already seen BonusView discs hit the streets. But the BDP-S350 will also be upgradeable to full BD-Live capabilities. It features an Ethernet port for direct firmware updates and Interactive features that’ll be available on some of your Blu-ray discs. 

Sony’s new player promises faster load times than previous BD players and will boot up in only a few seconds. Pressing power on the Blu-ray player and going off to make coffee has become a staple plan at my household. Faster boot-up and load times are a welcome improvement. 

The player will also feature upscaling technology compliments of Sony’s new Precision Cinema HD. It’ll convert standard-def video to 1080P via HDMI. Sony is also touting the disc player’s green attribute - it’ll consume 21 percent less energy than its BDP-S300. Sony has also reduced its weight by 38 percent and overall size by 55 percent. A slimmer profile looks better in your component rack and its compact size requires less packaging. It allows Sony to do its part to help your future great grand-kids get acquainted with trees. 

Now for the good stuff… The BDP-S350 fully supports 7.1 channel Dolby TrueHD, Dolby Digital Plus decoding and bitstream. It’ll support DTS-HD High resolution and Master Audio for bit-stream only. 

See Sony’s BDP-S350 Press Release