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[thepcguy]

Apr 24, 2011 13:53:01 GMT -5 hemster said:

Apr 24, 2011 10:52:49 GMT -5 NorthStar said:

There are two type of people in this world...

...There are only 10 types of people in the world — those who understand binary, and those who don't. ;D

but...

if....

They are one person
They are two alone
They are three together

They are for each other?

[NorthStar]

When that guy created the universe, do you know how long it took him?

And on which day did he put the first Man on Earth? And how the first Women came along?

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Everything is related, and the theory of relativity is irrelative!
But in the end, Blu-ray 3D players come a lonnnnnnnng way...

[NorthStar]

...And in those days, 'versions' didn't exist! There was the universe, and that was it!

Heck, nobody have ever heard of HDMI!

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* The Universe in 3D

[copperband]

Apr 17, 2011 17:11:26 GMT -5 NorthStar said:

Yes, it is the overall value, features, picture & sound quality that makes the criterias of what's the best one. ...Popularity and number of sales get into the equation as well.

* We all know that the Oppo BDP-93 ($499) is the better player overall for BD Picture, Sound, SACD, DVD-Audio, HDCD, DVD upscaling, build quality...

But the Sony BDP-S570 ($129 street) with 3D, DLNA, WI-FI, Netflix, YouTube, and a zillion more Internet streaming provenances, iPod, iPhone remote, 1Gb internal memory for BD Live, plus SACD playback, and a very fast disc loader, plus superb BD picture & Sound is simply the #1 seller because of that very low price! ...Not the best DVD upscaler around, but who cares if you play mainly BDs? ...And at only $129!!!

The Sony BDP-S470 you can get now for only $99!

And the Sony BDP-S770 you can get for $159! It's replacement, the BDP-S780 is $179 and adds more features like VUDU. ...And the price is still coming down!

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*** OK, questions for you guys who have the 470, or 570, or 770!

1. => When you play an SACD, the front panel display indicates the time of the track playing; but not the track, only T is indicated! Right?
- The front panel display doesn't give you any indication at all about the Artist, Title, Track, SACD layer, SACD light, NOTHING!

Second question:

2. => When DSD is set to 'On', and HDMI Audio to 'Auto'; the player send the DSD stream as is.
And if your pre/pro or receiver can accept the DSD audio signal; it will say 'DSD', but if you check the Info by clicking 'Info' or 'Display' on your remote, you'll see DSD 5.1 (or 5.0) & fs: 44.1kHz, right?

Only if you set the HDMI Audio out to 'PCM' (or DSD to 'Off'); you'll see PCM Multich & fs: 176.4kHz, right?

Bob,

I have the S570, based on your advice a while ago, bought it for 139 at local best buy. Yes this is a great player.

Question:when playing cd, how do you jump a song, say I am listening to the 2nd song and I want to go to the 5th song. the number keys do not work, tried different ways without success.

[NorthStar]

I don't know yet Vincent; I'm just using my BDP-S570 mainly as a BD 3D player.

* I just bought the Samsung BD-C5900 for $150. Hope it works fine for at least a year!

P.S. Vincent, try this:

1. On your remote, press the track # you would like to listen to.
2. And right after, press the center of the circle, which means [Enter].
{That is the Sony's way usually.}
** Or you can also try to press [>] Play, after you press the track #.

Let me know, I bet that would do it.

[copperband]

Aug 26, 2011 23:42:28 GMT -5 NorthStar said:

I don't know yet Vincent; I'm just using my BDP-S570 mainly as a BD 3D player.

* I just bought the Samsung BD-C5900 for $150. Hope it works fine for at least a year!

P.S. Vincent, try this:

1. On your remote, press the track # you would like to listen to.
2. And right after, press the center of the circle, which means [Enter].
{That is the Sony's way usually.}
** Or you can also try to press [>] Play, after you press the track #.

Let me know, I bet that would do it.

Bob,

Both ways didn't work.

And nothing happen when I press the number key on the remote and I think that's the main problem. Could it be a setting issue?

[NorthStar]

Batteries?

[NorthStar]

Vincent, now try this:

1. Put a CD in the disc tray.
2. On your remote press

[weigle2]

So, tell me, did I finally make a decent decision when I bought a BDP-S570 from SonyStyle for $94.50 a couple of weeks ago? Free shipping no tax?

This would be a first for me.

All in all, a very nice unit for the money as it streams really easily both music and movies from my PC and best of all Pandora from the outside world.

And yes, this is my first BD player.

Weigle2

[savjac]

[quote author=thelordoftherings board=mediareviews thread=17641

Jack, for more on that Sony BDP-S580 and last year BDP-S570 3D BD players, check over at Secrets.

* BDP-S580 => www.hometheaterhifi.com/blu-ray-players/1318-sony-bdp-s580-blu-ray-player-for-the-home-theater.html

* BDP-S570 => www.hometheaterhifi.com/blu-ray-players/911-sony-bdp-s570-blu-ray-player.html[/quote]

This is why I despise reviewers more often than not.
On page 3 he says "If anything, the Sony had a more pleasing image to my eyes.". But once he does a set of useless tests he says " Overall, the Sony BDP-S580 was definitely a disappointment."
You know, we watch these units on a display not an oscilloscope and if it looks good on the display, its good. The noise he talks about is a clicking that can barely be heard more than 3' away as the read head looks over the disc's TOC. Once it plays it is silent. As to the clunky buttons...well DUH what do you expect for such inexpensive models ? Fine Corinthian leather ? I have a very expensive (When it was new) Denon BR player here and it has an image to die for. The drawer is silent, its operation is silent and it weighs about 20 pounds. Is there a downside, yes, it takes about 2 minute to load and get everything up on the screen...oh and it does not do 3d.
I really find it distasteful for reviewers to pounce so hard on equipment that works really well, is priced very well and will work for a good number of years. He even admitted he could see no real image problems until he saw the graphs then all of a sudden the machine became crap. As far as speed, this thing moves very fast. Seconds instead of minutes.
Maybe he needs a new job like reporting on the efficacy of extra strength tampons.


..and then of course some time later they say....

"If you choose to read our review of the S570, also make sure to read our HDMI Benchmarking article which came out after the S570 was reviewed. We've since rescinded our recommendation for the player due to errors it produces over all colorspaces output. If you don't want to buy an Oppo player (the only ones that worked perfectly in testing), the Samsung BD-D5500 that was reviewed would be my choice. it was the only one with totally accurate HDMI output (though only at 4:4:4, not at RGB Video) and decent performance. If you want image quality, though, I'd skip the Sony. "

Bet everyone that has a 570 has not noticed any real issues. Same with the 580.