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Sony DEMO BDP-S550 Blu-ray Disc Player

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Sony DEMO BDP-S550 Blu-ray Disc Player
Key Features
  • BD-Live Ready
  • Full HD 1080p/24p and 60p
  • AVC-HD w/x.v.Color Output
  • Dolby TrueHD/DTS-HD
Designed and built with 1080p HD pundits and home theater enthusiasts in mind, the DEMO Sony BDP-S550 Blu-ray Disc Player combines high-end performance and versatility, with BD-Live playback, 1080p HD-resolution BD-Video and multi-format DVD playback capabilities. It brings your movie theater experience to a whole new level, without breaking the bank. It offers the ability to playback all of your favorite CDs and DVDs. In fact, they will look and sound better than ever before, because it's capable of upconverting your current DVD library to a 720p/1080i/1080p HD experience. Enjoy the awesome power of Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD processing, for a wider, more enveloping 7.1-channel surround-sound experience.

Moreover, this player presents exquisite HDTV clarity that will be hard to match. With Blu-ray video playback at native 1080p Full HD, 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 with the Sony BDP-S550.

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Sony BDP-S550 Overview

Designed and built with 1080p HD pundits and home theater enthusiasts in mind, the DEMO Sony BDP-S550 Blu-ray Disc Player combines high-end performance and versatility, with BD-Live playback, 1080p HD-resolution BD-Video and multi-format DVD playback capabilities. It brings your movie theater experience to a whole new level, without breaking the bank. It offers the ability to playback all of your favorite CDs and DVDs. In fact, they will look and sound better than ever before, because it's capable of upconverting your current DVD library to a 720p/1080i/1080p HD experience. Enjoy the awesome power of Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD processing, for a wider, more enveloping 7.1-channel surround-sound experience.

Moreover, this player presents exquisite HDTV clarity that will be hard to match. With Blu-ray video playback at native 1080p Full HD, 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 with the Sony BDP-S550.

BD-Live Ready
This superb feature uses the Internet to further expand your entertainment experience by enabling you to download additional HD content and share the information with other BD-Live users. In addition, in the near future, BD-Live technology will enable users to connect this player to the Internet to download such data as images and subtitles, and to join in multi-player interactive games that are linked to bonus movie content contained in Blu-ray discs. It features an Ethernet port with 1GB of memory, and a built-in USB port for easy access to BD-Live content.
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)
This unit features an HDMI Version 1.3 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.
Precision Cinema HD Upscale
This powerful technology utilizes ultra high bandwidth digital-to-analog conversion and processing to detect image changes at the pixel level. It's capable of reproducing high-quality video imagery with sharp backgrounds, while eliminating motion artifacts from moving objects within the video frame.
BRAVIA 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.
Xcross Bar Media
Xcross Bar is an icon based function that allows fast and easy access to set-up menus, user controls, and lots more.
Multi-Format Versatility
It plays: Blu-ray Discs BD-ROM/R/RE, DVD+R/W, DVD-R/W, CD, 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.
7.1-Channel Discrete Output
If you have a 7.1-channel home theater receiver - you're in luck - this player is capable of decoding Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD. It uses less compression than regular Dolby Digital to reproduce fuller and more dynamic sound effects with up to eight discrete channels of surround-sound.
High-Quality 24-bit Audio Processing
Its built-in 192KHz/24-bit digital-to-analog converter is the offers exceptional multi-channel 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.
Parental Lock
For parents who want full control of media content played back through player, the BDP-S550's menu features a parental control and rating system adjustment.
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°.

Sony BDP-S550 Specs

Video
System
NTSC
Region
1
Progressive Scan
Yes
HD Upconversion
Yes, 1080p
Audio
Dolby Digital / DTS Compatibility
Yes
Built-in Decoder
Yes
HDCD Decoding
Not Specified By Manufacturer
Audio D/A Converter
192KHz/24-bit
THX Certified
No
Disc Playback Formats
Video
Blu-ray Discs, BD-ROM/R/RE (BDMV and BAAB format), DVD-R/W, DVD+R/W
Audio
CD Discs
LPCM
Yes, w/HDMI bitstream out
Dolby Digital Plus
Yes, w/HDMI bitstream out
Dolby TrueHD
Yes, w/HDMI bitstream out
DTS-HD
Yes, w/HDMI bitstream out
SA-CD
No
Pictures
JPEG, Content must be in DVD+R/W, DVD-R/W formats
Convenience
Digital Media Slot
No
Slow Motion Playback
Yes
Frame-by-Frame Playback
Yes
Bookmarking
Yes
Zoom
Yes
Connectors
Analog
Composite Video: x1 Out (RCA)
S-Video: x1 Out
Component Video: x1 Out (RCA)
2-Channel Audio: x1 Out (RCA)
7.1 Channel Audio: x1 Set Out (RCA)
Digital
Coaxial Audio: x1 Out (RCA)
Optical Audio: x1 Out
HDMI: x1 Out (v 1.3)
USB Port
Yes
Ethernet
Yes
Control
No
General
Tray Type
Single
Remote
Yes
Power Requirements
120VAC, 60Hz
Dimensions
17 x 2.3 x 8.7" (431 x 58.4 x 220.9mm)
Weight
6.3 lbs (2.8kg)
Color
Black
Packaging Info
Package Weight
10.2 lb

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