i have a sony 300 bluray carrousel but is realy slow, it takes alost 5 minuts to go from one disc to another, and always starts with all the warnings, fbi, piracy anouncements, so it take other 5 minutes, 90% of my disc are music concerts, so i want to...
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It loads very quickly once it's on and running...I don't know about Music or concerts...but all my movies load as soon as I select them on the hard drive
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Its really stupid but there is no bluray playing software,its a rip off,the best I can recommend is buy cyberlink powerdvd 14 ultra,or torrent it if you do that sort of thing.Sounds illegal but guess what,you
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I also have an older Sony 6 disc player.(a little newer than yours) Mine also failed and the speakers crapped out. This new player is, in my opinion, much better and a great replacement
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Dear E. Hamilton, good morning. I confess you this All-in-one was a big disappointment for me, because I expected a quick and efficient machine and it wasn't what I found. It does not read blu-ray and the dvd/ cd burner stopped working since the beginnig. I do not recommend it for you. Best regards, Edney
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No! this product is the biggest piece of crap.. trust me save your money.. alot of the times it wont allow blurays to play.. this started a week after receiving the drive. and it WILL NOT allow wincx dvd ripper to be used on this device
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Well it really depends on how you plan on connecting this Sony bluray carrousel to the player. This unit does not have any HDMI in or anything of the sort so unless this carrousel connects to your network and shares the images of each bluray disk for access (not likely) you will need to rip each of the blurays to files and store them on your network or on a hard drive you insert into the popcorn hour. This would allow you to play whatever music files in whatever order you like without much delay at all. As a note, this popcorn hour unit does not support full bluray menus only some BD Lite so it will likely skip past all the warnings and menu stuff you don't want. Well it really depends on how you plan on connecting this Sony bluray carrousel to the player. This unit does not have any HDMI in or anything of the sort so unless this carrousel connects to your network and shares the images of each bluray disk for access (not likely) you will need to rip each of the blurays to files and store them on your network or on a hard drive you insert into the popcorn hour. This would allow you to play whatever music files in whatever order you like without much delay at all. As a note, this popcorn hour unit does not support full bluray menus only some BD Lite... » Read More Well it really depends on how you plan on connecting this Sony bluray carrousel to the player. This unit does not have any HDMI in or anything of the sort so unless this carrousel connects to your network and shares the images of each bluray disk for access (not likely) you will need to rip each of the blurays to files and store them on your network or on a hard drive you insert into the popcorn hour. This would allow you to play whatever music files in whatever order you like without much delay at all. As a note, this popcorn hour unit does not support full bluray menus only some BD Lite so it will likely skip past all the warnings and menu stuff you don't want. « Show Less
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Drive is great bit blue ray stinks. Yuo need their software to get it to qork and the coat od the software was npt worth the benifit to me.
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I have no idea. Both have proven very reliable. I've tried other brands and they frequently have unwriteable discs in the package...Sony rarely does. Ask Sony. Grandpa 6 times also!
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You need to buy software to play Bluray movies. It has to do with Sony's stupid licensing for Bluray. So yeah, if you want to play movies on bluray you will have to spend an extra 50 bucks.
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I have a problem with this Blu-Ray player, too... but my problem is different. The system sound is fine, and it plays regular DVDs just fine... but if we try to play a Blu-Ray, the play keeps getting interrupted and/or randomly skipping forward or backward by itself. We even took the batteries out of our remote control thinking maybe that was the problem, but the system still randomly stopped/skipped around in playing the Blu-Ray. Any ideas?
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That would be really cool if any product could do that, but sadly, bluray has to go to bluray and DVD to DVD. Blurays have 25 gig of space and DVD has 4.7 and they use different coding as well.
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I have not copied dvds yet..but cds are MUCH faster. I would assume the same would apply for dvds.
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Theoretically you may have to buy newer versions though I am still using version 11 and it is still receiving updates so it really boils down to when they decide to stop updating the older versions. In my experience it seems like you will at least get about 4 years out of it, but probably more than that, most newer bluray discs I have seen don't use the newer versions of bluray copy protection anyways. Personally I'm going to upgrade to 14 because after using the trial I found it opens alot faster than 11 and seems to be a smoother experience. Also 11 doesn't work in win 8 media center, I don't blame power dvd though because win 8 wasn't out when I bought it and it worked fine in win 7.
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I encountered same problem. In June 2010 (18 months after purchase), my Sony BDP-550 stopped recognizing Blu-Ray disks. All other types of disks still work. Sony had me upgrade the firmware and reset device to factory settings. No effect. The Sony customer support people pretend that they have never heard of this problem. I sent them a dozen on-line reports by others who talked to Sony and were also told to upgrade the firmware without effect. Now, I am trying to get a written quote for the replacement of this defective BDP-550, but Sony will not provide it. They want me to mail them the player with a credit card number without ever providing written estimate.
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Not as far as I can tell. I've dumped my entire bluray collection to 2 5TB drives using MakeMKV where I preserve all the tracks without reencoding or anything like that. I haven't had any trouble whatsoever playing anything even known Cinavia protected movies like Amazing Spider-Man I don't think you have anything to worry about. Cinavia is only a requirement for BluRay players and since this doesn't have a BluRay drive you're in good shape
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It will not clean the disc. Designed for the player only. I found a blu-ray player cleaner at the local mega store. Need to read all the fine print. i used the Digital Innovations on my standard CD player that skips. It didnt help at all!
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Depends. For bluray you shouldn't really notice much difference. Although this player does have a range of picture modes and tweaks you can play with. For DVD, I would say yes. The PS3, made for a pretty horrible DVD player. This is much improved with very good up scaling abilities. For audio, the player can pass DTS-MA and Dolby TrueHD bitstream out should your receiver support it.