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| Registered: April 17, 2007 |  Posts: 771 |
| | Posted: | | | | Hi all,
I am thinking about buying a BD player soon, maybe the Sony BDP S 350.
What is important for me is to be able to watch R1, 2 and 4 DVDs on it.
Does anybody know if this is possible?
From what I read so far the picture quality should be fine.
Or does anybody have a better alternative (also considering the price)?
Does somebody know of a good site to judge the video quality of the blu ray discs, so I can decide if I want to buy a BD I already have on DVD?
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 2,692 |
| | Posted: | | | | You can use a remote to hack it. I got this for my father and made it DVD MR. See hereand he is very pleased with the picture quality. | | | | Paul | | | | Last edited: by pauls42 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,493 |
| | Posted: | | | | "Does somebody know of a good site to judge the video quality of the blu ray discs, so I can decide if I want to buy a BD I already have on DVD?:?" I like this site for Hidef reviews... | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| Registered: May 8, 2007 |  Posts: 663 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting widescreenforever: Quote:
"Does somebody know of a good site to judge the video quality of the blu ray discs, so I can decide if I want to buy a BD I already have on DVD?:?"
I like this site for Hidef reviews... I use that site as well, but I also use this site too. | | | We're on a mission from God.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,796 |
| | Posted: | | | | I have used the sites mentioned above.
Site blu-ray.com/movies/ has hte users rating the movie video, sound, etc.
As far as the Blu-rsy's region codes wasn't there a forum link discussing those.
I have a Samsung BD-P1500C, it was on sale with a disc package,
and Panasonic DMP-BD35K, it is about $70 more now than I paid for it
The Samsung hung after about a month, they fixed it in about week and extended my warranty .
Both although not the top of their respective companies players.
Panasonic I think is the better of the two, at least I prefer it.
I have not tried the internet connection although I have firmware update for the Samsung. | | | We don't need stinkin' IMDB's errors, we make our own.
Ineptocracy, You got to love it.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,796 |
| | Posted: | | | | Oh, an after thought, beware of some of the older movies run though the software Dynamic Noise Reduction DNR. | | | We don't need stinkin' IMDB's errors, we make our own.
Ineptocracy, You got to love it.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 3,436 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Mighty Mike: Quote:
Quoting widescreenforever:
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"Does somebody know of a good site to judge the video quality of the blu ray discs, so I can decide if I want to buy a BD I already have on DVD?:?"
I like this site for Hidef reviews...
I use that site as well, but I also use this site too. That's the two sites I use, with DVDTalk thrown in for good measure  | | | Achim [諾亞信； Ya-Shin//Nuo], a German in Taiwan.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,692 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Srehtims: Quote:
As far as the Blu-rsy's region codes wasn't there a forum link discussing those.
here is the link | | | | Paul |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 3,197 |
| | Posted: | | | | DVDBeaver - the site design and navigation is a nightmare but you can't beat the content.  | | | | First registered: February 15, 2002 |
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| Registered: April 17, 2007 | | Posts: 771 |
| | Posted: | | | | First of all, thank you very much to all who posted, I bookmarked the links you posted - looks very good. Second - I DID IT! Sony BDP S 350 - Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Iron Man - all look terrific!!  Now the only thing that bothers me is the region code, I got a URC-7740 remote and followed the instructions to the letter, but so far no luck - will keep trying. Thanks again and enjoy the movies! | | | |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,692 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting hallo-marvin: Quote:
First of all, thank you very much to all who posted, I bookmarked the links you posted - looks very good.
Second - I DID IT! Sony BDP S 350 - Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Iron Man - all look terrific!!
Now the only thing that bothers me is the region code, I got a URC-7740 remote and followed the instructions to the letter, but so far no luck - will keep trying.
Thanks again and enjoy the movies! I assume you are aware we are talking about the DVD region code - you can't make it Blu ray code free. | | | | Paul |
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| Registered: April 17, 2007 | | Posts: 771 |
| | Posted: | | | | Yes, I know, but I also own several R1 DVDs which I would like to be able to see in the future.
Also I think 2 R4 discs. | | | |
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| Registered: April 17, 2007 | | Posts: 771 |
| | Posted: | | | | It's working!!  | | | |
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