I'm comparing these competitive Blu-Ray players to be release in 2008 based on info at blu-ray.com:
After talking to an audio engineer buddy who has built his own home theater, he mentioned,
"And keep in mind that the Sony 550 comes with 1 GB of local RAM storage; the Panasonic BD50 and the Sony 350 may require purchasing extra storage. The RAM is used for dynamic memory and storage or buffer for Web-based supplements (and possibly disc-based Java supplements)."
Question 1) I'm wondering how much local RAM storage the Sony S350 and the Panny BD50 will have to accommodate Web-based supplements. Anyone know?
Question 2) If anyone hears of a report or review of the Panasonic BD50's upconversion quality of Standard DVDs (for which the prior 2007 Panasonic DMP-BD30 Blu-ray Player was notably deficient), can you post your thoughts or links to reviews?
cool beans,
Jim
dvdfile.com
- Panasonic DMP-BD50 (release date: "spring" of 2008 $700)
- Sony BDP-S350 (release date: "summer" of 2008 $400)
- Sony BDP-S550 (release date: "fall" of 2008 $500)
After talking to an audio engineer buddy who has built his own home theater, he mentioned,
"And keep in mind that the Sony 550 comes with 1 GB of local RAM storage; the Panasonic BD50 and the Sony 350 may require purchasing extra storage. The RAM is used for dynamic memory and storage or buffer for Web-based supplements (and possibly disc-based Java supplements)."
Question 1) I'm wondering how much local RAM storage the Sony S350 and the Panny BD50 will have to accommodate Web-based supplements. Anyone know?
Question 2) If anyone hears of a report or review of the Panasonic BD50's upconversion quality of Standard DVDs (for which the prior 2007 Panasonic DMP-BD30 Blu-ray Player was notably deficient), can you post your thoughts or links to reviews?
cool beans,
Jim
dvdfile.com
