Sony BDP-BX1 Blu-Ray Disc Player – Upscaling
June 24th, 2009 | 65 views | Posted by in Cheap Blu-ray Disc Players
Sony BDP-BX1 Blu-Ray Disc Player – Upscaling
BD-Live brings you the next generation of interactivity, allowing you to download and stream bonus content such as additional scenes, shorts, trailers, movie-based games, and more. View feature provides “picture-in-picture” capability with select Bluray Disc titles – useful for viewing director or actor commentary while the movie plays.
Sony BDP-BX1 Blu-Ray Disc Player DVD Upscaling via HDMI gets the most out of your existing DVD collection by upscaling standard definition video to near HD quality. Precision Cinema HD upscale uses high bandwidth digital-to-analog conversion and processing to detect image changes at the pixel level, rather than at the level of whole scan lines. Additionally, separate algorithms are used to process the moving and still parts of an image, resulting in sharp backgrounds with moving objects that are free from motion artifacts. Support for the international xvYCC color standard produces images with 1.8x the color space of the traditional RGB color standard, resulting in images with more natural and vivid color reproduction.
Sony BDP-BX1 Blu-Ray Disc Player’s Technical Details
- HD playback 1080p, 1080i, 720p
- Compatible with Blu-ray, DVD, DVD-R RW, DVD+R RW
- HDMI cable included – Backlit remote control
- DVD Upscaling to 1080p via HDMI
- Dolby TrueHD decoding built-in Dolby TrueHD /DTS-HD bitstream out over HDMI (V1.3)
Sony BDP-BX1 Blu-Ray Disc Player Review
I originally purchased a Memorex Blu Ray Player (MVBD-2510) since I figured all players were basically the same. Boy, was I wrong. The Memorex did an okay job of playing movies, but the startup time was MISERABLE and the menu system was extremely unresponsive and frustrating. Plus, the firmware update process was atrocious–I wasted seven CD-Rs trying to update it, before getting lucky and finding a way to get the player to accept the disc. Anyway, I finally cut my losses, sold the Memorex, and replaced the player with this one instead. What a difference.
This player boots up in the same amount of time as a typical DVD player–about five seconds from pressing eject to seeing the tray fully opened. It has a simple, intuitive menu system based on the PS3′s XMB system. Discs load up fast–the speeds are almost as good as PS3, the undisputed king of fast loading times. Picture and sound quality is, of course, excellent–it’s a Sony, you really should expect no less from the inventors of the Blu-ray format 
Really, there’s nothing to complain about. Given the small price difference between the Memorex model and this one, I don’t know why I waited this long to switch.
The only quibble I can think of is that you can’t use a USB flash drive to update the firmware–you need to burn a CD-R. Not a big deal, especially since you can do it via the network if you can run Ethernet from your router/modem to the Blu-ray player, or don’t mind spending a few extra bucks for a wireless router in your entertainment center.
Anyway, this is apparently the same thing as a Sony BDP-S350 1080p Blu-ray Disc Player except for slightly less fancy audio decoding, and a backlit remote. I wouldn’t sweat the audio decoding thing–if you have a sound system good enough to hear the difference, you’ll be able to decode the HD formats in the receiver itself. And the backlit remote is cool. So buy either one and enjoy it. Or, go the extra mile and get a PlayStation 3 80GB if money is no object.
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