Rating acceptable performance for Sony BDP-S30x

[tron3]

I cut-n-past some of this from the main thread as I am hoping for more feedback.

Standalone BDP-S30x owners should remember these are second generation tanks, and they pretty much run like one. These are slower chip sets, not Play Station 3's.

If the 4.20 firmware loads BD-J movies under 90 seconds consider it "normal and acceptable for a tank". Let us be grateful it now supports Dolby(r) TrueHD Audio.

Unlike the mixed results I have seen from the older firmwares, 4.20 not only loads movies faster, the menus are smoother and more responsive. All BD-J loading records are being shattered. Some by a wide margin, others by mere seconds.

Standards of acceptable performance levels should be expected for these blu-ray player "tanks", because they can be slower. In short, we need a standard of measure.

Here is my suggested "Load Time Performance Table".
Consider 90 seconds and under as the tolerable sweet spot.


* Non BD-J loading in 35 seconds or less. Excellent.
* BD-J up to 75 seconds. Very Good.
* BD-J 76 to 90 seconds. Good. (Tolerable Threshold)
* BD-J 91 to 100 seconds. Very Fair
* BD-J 101 to 120 seconds. Fair.
* BD-J over 120 seconds. Poor.
* BD-J over 180 seconds. Very Poor.

Thoughts?

[Yeha-Noha]

My benchmark is this: If the BD-j stuff has loaded and I can access the main menu by the time my microwave popcorn finishes popping (ca. 120 sec), I'm happy.

[tron3]

Originally Posted by rwojtalewicz

My benchmark is this: If the BD-j stuff has loaded and I can access the main menu by the time my microwave popcorn finishes popping (ca. 120 sec), I'm happy.

Ahhh, popcorn. The reason why we are so patient of our beloved S30x's.

I thought about making 120 the max threshold, but there are lots of factors to consider. Things like the load times people are accustomed to because of experience with DVD, PS3, and other players which were faster out the gate.

I asked for the opinion of a friend who even cares to speculate on these things. He doesn't even own blu-ray but he appreciates how I feel about it. We agreed 90 seconds would be acceptable by most people.

I could change it to 120 seconds, but the point of this thread is the hopes the studios see it and are cautious to create BD-J within the tolerable threshold. It's bad enough we have to sit through the previews, don't make us sit through bloat-code loading up.

[Yeha-Noha]

Originally Posted by tron3

Ahhh, popcorn. The reason why we are so patient of our beloved S30x's.

I thought about making 120 the max threshold, but there are lots of factors to consider. Things like the load times people are accustomed to because of experience with DVD, PS3, and other players which were faster out the gate.

I asked for the opinion of a friend who even cares to speculate on these things. He doesn't even own blu-ray but he appreciates how I feel about it. We agreed 90 seconds would be acceptable by most people.

I could change it to 120 seconds, but the point of this thread is the hopes the studios see it and are cautious to create BD-J within the tolerable threshold. It's bad enough we have to sit through the previews, don't make us sit through bloat-code loading up.

Ok, I don't have a good dedicated stopwatch. I'll use my cell phone's which is kind of dorky but it works. I'll put on ID4, that's one that I think takes the longest and then Nat'l Treas 2 which is about average. I'll report back. I have the S301 with version 4.20.