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Sony BDP-S300 Blu-Ray Player is just awesome

I bought the Blu-Ray player to go with my new Sony 50" 1080p Rear-projection TV. I have watched about 4 blu-ray movies so far (Superman Returns, Open Season, Mission Impossible & Fugitive) and have been blown away by the picture clarity. I have watched the Fugitive about 5 times already but I was able to see little things that I never noticed before in a regular DVD. I also threw in couple of DVDs that I own (Die Hard 3, Independence Day) and once again was impressed with the excellent job this player did to upconvert it to 1080p. Highly recommended.

Wonderful Blu-Ray Player

Sony's plastic remote is reasonably good. It's well designed and compliments the Sony HDMI HDTV - the remote controls the TV's basic functions too. No more fumbling around for 2 different remotes. Overall I am very pleased with the Sony BDP-S300. I just wish there were more high quality Blu-Ray discs available at lower prices.

Great PQ! Slow loading

This is an excellent BD Player for under $500! The picture quality is awesome! The only downside is the load time. The Samsung bd-p1200 is faster in the load time but $300 more. Overall a Great product!

Good player

At this point if you're looking for a stand-alone Blu-ray player I can't wholeheartedly recommend the BDP-S300 quite as easily as before these issues came to light. It's still a good player, but certainly not quite as good as our first impressions indicated. For what it's worth; I feel I've paid my penance for my original oversights, 'Ghost Rider' was truly abysmal.

Sure Winner

Judged purely as a DVD/CD/Blu-ray player, the Sony is a sure winner. It is also a good upconverting DVD player and a respectable, if slow-to-load, CD player. While the occasional freeze-ups were only a minor nuisance, I'm still a bit concerned about them. Despite this, however, the BDP-S300 has a lot to recommend it. If you want a relatively affordable standalone Blu-ray player, it's currently the only game in town. And fortunately, it's an outstanding one.

Decent choice

The BDP-S300 is a decent choice if you're limiting yourself to a relatively cheap, standard-design Blu-ray player, but everyone else should consider the competition.

Outstanding in perfect conditions

The Casio Exilim Z1200 is no simple point-and-click camera though, as with most decent digital cameras over the £200 mark you get full manual control over all aspects of the camera including shutter speeds and focal length, which nearly (but not quite) makes up for the minimal ISO selection. Shutter lag isn’t too bad with the Casio Exilim Z1200. Combine this with various problems when shooting in low light - including a hit-and-miss face recognition system and you're left with a camera that struggles when outside its comfort zone. But the Casio Exilim Z1200 is outstanding in perfect conditions.

Ultracompact

The Casio Exilim Zoom EX-Z1200 an ultracompact 12.1-megapixel camera with both manual controls and a raft of advanced automatic functions. The EX-Z1200 offers an f/2.8-5.4, 37mm-111mm (35mm equivalent) 3x zoom lens; CCD-shift image stabilization, and a widescreen 230,400-pixel, 2.8-inch LCD. It uses Casio's Exilim Engine 2.0 image processor to support features such as motion analysis, tracking autofocus, and face detection. The Z1200 also offers voice recording for annotating photos.

Decent image quality

The range of control that the EX-Z1200 offers really lets you get creative with your photography whilst retaining the simplicity of a point and shoot camera. The 12.1 megapixel CCD produces not only very large images but also ones that are of a very good standard. There's a lot to be impressed about and if the menu system was a bit more carefully thought out, it would make the camera even better. Not only is this a stylish camera, it's got great functionality and image quality as well. If you need as many pixels as man can cram onto a CCD but still want control and decent image quality in a compact form factor then you should certainly consider the Exilim EX-Z-1200.

Good purchase

The physical build quality is excellent, but I did notice that the front panel warms up if the camera is used for any length of time. There are a surprising number of advanced functions built into the camera, and it's a surprise to see the standard PASM modes there for the user to tinker with. However, as the scene modes usually invoke some processing functions, it is these, considering how easily accessible they are, that will be called upon more. The Z1200 has two main features then. They are high quality and high resolution, and if those are the two main items on your camera requirement list, then it's a good purchase, if not quite an all-rounder for general use.