Comments on: Sony BDP-S550 1080p Blu-ray Player

By: Sum Yung Guy

Sum Yung Guy — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:13:09 +0000

I returned this player for a few reasons. The blu-ray pictures was soft, can’t fix even with adjustments. Sound was thin, something missing, even with TrueHD. Sub out was low, even after compensating with sub boost 10db. Also did not like the big remote with small buttons of mostly all same sizes. Does not have slow motion or frame by frame, I knew the lack of this feature before buying, but wanted to see if I could live without it, but I couldn’t. I purchased the Panasonic BD55K instead and liked it much better.
Rating: 2 / 5

By: Frank D. Ireland

Frank D. Ireland — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:29:27 +0000

My unit was defective out of the box (it would not output video using the HDMI output). I contacted Sony’s technical support and spoke with 4 different technicians. They concluded that the unit was defective out of the box.

Rating: 1 / 5

By: Blueman

Blueman — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:06:35 +0000

I bought this player with great expectations. After testing and comparison with Panasonic BD-50, I was very disappointed. The video is clean, but lacks the depth. Both saturation and hues are much inferior to Panny’s. The audio part is a joke–hollow, dry and metallic. NO MORE SONY. The only plus for Sony is the remote which is far better than Panny’s.
Rating: 3 / 5

By: Jeffrey L. Young

Jeffrey L. Young — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:00:06 +0000

As far as Blu-ray goes, I would wait If I was you. There is very little difference between 1080P upscale and Blu-ray. Don’t waste the money just yet. Wait til the prices come down. I bought this player and it does everything it should. But, There are black lines on top and the bottom of the picture. This is from the movies I am told. If I have a 1080P Plasma T.V. shouldn’t the picture fill the whole screen? I thought so, eveidently because this is the way the movies are made there are black lines on top and the bottom. So the picture doesn’t fill the whole screen. This is B.S.! My suggestion, wait, wait, wait!!!
Rating: 4 / 5

By: Donald Keylon

Donald Keylon — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:53:03 +0000

What a total farce, Blu ray beats HD.... HDMI Cables?? Compatibility???

$4500 dollars for NOTHING!! OK so I bought into the hype that Blu ray won the HD Race. I buy into the interoperability of SONY and THE hollywood ONLY serving HDMI Cable... I buy a new $3500 TV (Sony 1080P/24-52") and a new Sony Blue Ray Player and a new BLUE RAY FILMED MOVIE for three TIMES the price of a standard DVD and put them together only to discover that I have black lines (letterbox) on my TV, The picture is a little worse than a standard DVD, the menu system works like a $27 VCR. The "Interoperability" between the Sony TV and the SONY BD works about like free air digital TV. And the Audio is like listening to a 3 transistor radio...

What a total JOKE!! ANYONE CONSIDERING UPGRADING TO ALL THE "NEWEST" because of ALL THE HYPE, Leave your money in your pocket. Go buy a cheeseburger and put the remainder in a 401k. When what you have breaks, get new average price stuff. When you pay all the big bucks for all the best you get NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING!
Maybe someone else's BD/TV actually works (oh wait a minute, ALL BD is Based on SONY technology....)

Sony (who made my PSP, PS3, Nav System, TVx5, BD Player and PDA has seen the last of my credit card.

MY NEW $500 BD Player hooked up to my new $3500 52" LCD TV, wants to operate in PAN-N-Scan mode in order to utilize the other 30% of the $100 per square inch real estate I bought from sony.

I though Pan-N-Scan died with Beta Max....

In closing, you would get the exact same experience (Maybe better with a $27 480i DVD Player, a $99 "Home theater system" and a No Name Rear Projection 50" DONT BUY DONT BUY DONT BUY Rating: 1 / 5