Recent content by CarlTond

Aww man, this just sucks. I had been told my HT store that it was 1.1 compliant. Oh, well the movies I've watched so far still look great. Though camera mistakes like out of focus are MUCH more easily seen.

Which enthusiast site? Is it just about the S500? If so, I'd like to follow it. Following your train of thought then is the 1.1 compliance on products **released** after 11/15 or **sold** after 11/15? Everything I read said "sold" therefore the player should either be, or be upgradeable to...

Hmmm, I thought all BR players sold after 11/15/07 (or there abouts) was supposed to be 1.1 compliant? How can they get away with a brand new model and not meet the BDA specification? Thanks

I tried to talk to as many people as I could prior to buying this deck to determine whether or not it was profile 1.1 compliant or capable of being 1.1 (or higher) compliant with upgrades. The description of the product in this area is pretty vague "BD-Java Interactive Capability. Blu-ray...

I bought this player the first of December but haven't seen a discussion thread for it so thought I'd start one. For those who haven't noticed, a firmware update was released a couple of weeks ago. It can be found here: esupport.sony.com/US/perl/swu-list.pl?mdl=BDPS500&LOC=3 Billed as...

When Disney jumped into the DVD frey years ago, they started an annoying practice of having the DVD immediately start playing promos and other worthless stuff as soon as the disk loaded. Everyone complained and they gave you the option of using the menu button to get to the disk menu. So I...

As one who's looking to buy a Blu-Ray player this holiday season, I'm interested in knowing what's coming out and when. Yet there doesn't seem to be a central repository of this information. So I suggest that a new, *locked* thread be created and maintained by someone who likes to keep track...

I'm looking at getting one of the new 1080p sets but I'm trying to figure out if the internal scalers are sufficient or if I should look an an affordable scaler such as those made by DVDO. Short of buying a DVDO (since most stores don't carry them) and sticking it in line, is there any way to...

I'm looking at buying one of the net 1080p sets, either with the TI DLP engine of the Sony LCOS. All of them only have 1080i HDMI inputs. It's my understanding that when ever an BluRay or HD-DVD comes out, they will use progressive outs on HDMI. Is this correct? If so, will the TV's inputs be...