Sony l BDP-S350 at Wal-Mart Today?

[BD Live]

Originally Posted by jibucha

Certainly, the Blu-ray Sales will pick up with the availability of both the Panasonic and Sony BD Live Players

The BDP-S350 is going to be profile 1.1

I wouldn't be surprised to see the S350 surface in mid/late June.

[ack_bak]

Originally Posted by BD Live

The BDP-S350 is going to be profile 1.1

I wouldn't be surprised to see the S350 surface in mid/late June.

The BDS350 is supposed to be "Live Ready" like the Samsung1500. Meaning with a firmware update and/or additional memory it will be 2.0 capable.

[Woody]

The 350 is due in July, I am sure that whoever you spoke to mistook the s300 for the s350.

[BD Live]

Originally Posted by ack_bak

The BDS350 is supposed to be "Live Ready" like the Samsung1500. Meaning with a firmware update and/or additional memory it will be 2.0 capable.

Agreed, but out of the box it's 1.1. Apparently the 2.0 firmware is expected in Q4.

On a related note, I understand Pana is marketing their new BD50 as BD Live, however it does NOT meet the hardware requirement of 1GB memory. Seems like false/misleading marketing to me and if it's true I'm surprised the BD Forum has allowed it.

[ack_bak]

Originally Posted by BD Live

Agreed, but out of the box it's 1.1. Apparently the 2.0 firmware is expected in Q4.

On a related note, I understand Pana is marketing their new BD50 as BD Live, however it does NOT meet the hardware requirement of 1GB memory. Seems like false/misleading marketing to me and if it's true I'm surprised the BD Forum has allowed it.

For the price they want for the BD50 ($699 MSRP) it should have 1GB of memory... I really like Panasonic prodcuts, but the BD50 appears to be way overpriced. Granted, I have not seen one yet, but I suspect the PQ will be similar to the BD30 which I have seen.

Looks like the PS3 is still the way to go based on price to performance....

[jw]

[The Guardian]

Originally Posted by ack_bak

For the price they want for the BD50 ($699 MSRP) it should have 1GB of memory... I really like Panasonic prodcuts, but the BD50 appears to be way overpriced. Granted, I have not seen one yet, but I suspect the PQ will be similar to the BD30 which I have seen.

How much does 1 GB of flash memory cost? Like $10 at most, in a store? This is even worse than some players not coming with HDMI cables (at least those come in different lengths, etc).

Even if they want to give you a slot so you can expand the memory or use multiple cards, there's no reason they couldn't just include a 1 GB card...