Sony’s First Full 2.0 Spec Blu-ray Players: BDP-S350 and BDP-S550

The Blu-ray players that Sony sold up until now were worthy of only your garbage can now that HD DVD is dead they are high on the market again and this time they will now be on show and not in he bin.

Now the new BDP-S350 will feature an Ethernet port, USB port for connecting external storage and BonusView picture-in-picture capability.

Even better, it will be BD-Live ready, meaning an over-the-network software update will make the player compatible with net-friendly titles when they hit the market.

And soon the BDP-S550 will arrive with nearly identical features.

While both support 1080/60p and 24p video and can decode Dolby True HD and Dolby Digital Plus, the S550 can decode DTS-HD High Resolution Audio and Master Audio, and has 7.1-channel analogue outputs.

The S550 will also come with a 1GB storage device

An inevitable software upgrade to the PS3 could make many of these features available for free, and even the analogue-output issue may be able to be solved by an accessory, not that Sony Computer Entertainment would build it.

What do you think of these players?

Do you think that HD DVD is dead?

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