If you're searching for the finest quality high-definition video playback solution that will transform your room into a powerful home theater experience, look no further. The Sony BDP-S350 Blu-ray Disc Player raises the bar of excellence with 1080p HD-resolution BD-Video and multi-format DVD/CD playback capabilities. It's BD-Live ready, enabling access to Blu-ray future updates and the latest features available. It combines superb functionality and versatility, with capabilities to playback all of your favorite DVDs. In fact, they will look and sound better than ever before, because this player can upconvert your DVD library to a 1080p high-definition experience. Enjoy the awesome power of Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, and DTS-HD processing, for a wider, more enveloping surround-sound experience.

Moreover, this player presents exquisite HDTV clarity that will be hard to match. With Blu-ray video playback at native HD resolutions of 720p/1080i/1080p, 60p and 24p True Cinema Output, AVC-HD Media Compatibility, and x.v.Color technology, this player offers the cleanest HD signal on the market. With connectivity to multiple A/V components and playback capabilities to a slew of video and audio formats, your entertainment choices are endless.

• BD-Live Ready

With BD-Live take full advantage of the Bonus View feature of select Blu-ray movies as well as acquire the latest features and updates as they become available. It offers a USB port for BD-Live external memory.

• Blu-ray Disc Features

Blu-ray discs offers picture quality beyond anything available, with full capability 1080p HD resolution in Blu-ray and up to 40 Mbit/secs, encoding 5-10X the capacity of regular DVDs. It also features theater-quality uncompressed audio (supporting 8 channels of Liner PCM), up to 32 streams of audio, interactive capability, seamless menus, integrated games, hi-def bonus and educational features.

• High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) with 1080p Video Upconversion

This unit features an HDMI Version 1.3a output, capable of upconverting video signals to 720p, or 1080i/1080p. This technology enables this player to carry the HD audio and video information through a single cable and achieving the highest quality picture and clearest sound available.

• Full HD w/24p True Cinema

Since most Hollywood Blockbuster movies are acquisitioned at 24 fps, and Blu-ray disc movies are mastered at the same rate, this player offers a 1080/24p True Cinema video output that offers a true film-like experience in the privacy of your own home.

• BRAVIA Theatre Sync

Go beyond simple audio and video transmission with the "one-touch play" remote control feature that allows you to easily manage select BRAVIA televisions and Sony HDMI audio and video components with the included remote control.

• Multi-Format Versatility

It plays: Blu-ray Discs BD-ROM/R/RE, DVD, DVD+R/W, DVD-R/W, and JPEG. Also, the player is backward-compatible, enabling playback of all your favorite DVDs in HD resolution.

• Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Processing

This unit has built-in processors to handle the multi-channel decoders for Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD processing. It employs the use of multiple DSPs to decode the multi-channel streams of the wide array of audio formats.

• Component Video Output

It achieves greater color accuracy and high resolution playback capability when connected via the component output to your projector, plasma and/or LCD/CRT televisions.

• High-Quality 24-bit Audio Processing

Its built-in 192KHz/24-bit digital-to-analog converter is the offers exceptional multichannel audio conversion. By executing an accurate sound-field reproduction and reducing analog noise in the signal path, this unit is capable of reproducing an enveloping audio signal that is unsurpassed.

• AVC-HD Media Compatibility

Enjoy the ability to playback your HD camcorder AVC-HD files in full HD resolution. AVC-HD discs encoded with x.v.Color (xvYCC) technology, an international standard for wide color space, expands the current data range of video by about 1.8 times, resulting in more natural and vivid colors similar to what the human eye can actually see.

• Expanding Technology

BD incorporates stringent licensing control, powerful encryption and other content protection. The Blu-ray disc technology offers the ability to copy its data-content to your compatible components. Also, it offers the flexibility to make managed copies across a home network to enjoy music and movies on your PC.

• Xcross Media Bar

Xcross Media Bar is an icon based function, which allows simple navigation of the player's menu system.

• Full-Feature Remote Control

Included with this package is a full-feature remote control capable of executing every command from any angle up to ±30°.