Sears Black Friday deals slip out: Sony Blu-ray player for $179.99
by Darren Murph 
posted Oct 27th 2008 at 11:35AM
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Fargus @ Oct 27th 2008 11:50AM
under 15 was the magic price point for me! DVD here i come!
shawnmos @ Oct 27th 2008 12:48PM
that's still too expensive. I'm waiting for $9.99. until then, VHS for me.
Michal @ Oct 27th 2008 1:09PM
lol
J.Goodwin @ Oct 27th 2008 12:59PM
That's about what I paid last holiday season for my HD-DVD player (also at Sears actually, a place that I really never go, but it was a good deal), so I expect that this is probably a good price point for most people.
carg0 @ Oct 27th 2008 1:33PM
christ, is that time of year already?
theefman @ Oct 27th 2008 1:54PM
Not a fan of br myself but at that price they will definitely sell a truck load. Interesting to see how the software sales are impacted as well.
Scott @ Oct 27th 2008 2:28PM
What's the difference between the 350 and the 550? Anyone?
TonyD @ Oct 27th 2008 4:53PM
The S550 has multichannel analog out (via 7.1 rca ports) on the back of the player. As the S350 only has analog stereo out. If you have an HDMI 1.1 receiver or prepro, the S350 will do. Also, the S350 didn't ship with profile 2.0 (available through firmware update) I think the S550 shipps with profile 2.0
shawnmos @ Oct 27th 2008 3:40PM
To add to what TonyD said, the 350 doesn't have 1gb of onboard memory so it's profile 1.1 out of the box. However, if you plug in a 1gb or larger flash drive (can be had for almost nothing these days) in the USB port on the back it will bring it to profile 2.0.
If you have an HDMI receiver or plan on getting one in the near future save your money and get the 350. Otherwise the 550 is ideal since you can get high def audio on an old receiver using the analog outputs.
Scott @ Oct 27th 2008 3:48PM
Okay, so, if you don't care about analog audio outs, then, as far as performance is concerned, there's really not much other difference between the S350 & S550?
The analog outs justifies the price difference? What about performance? Loading times?
Alex @ Oct 27th 2008 2:56PM
deja vu, so does this mean Blu Ray will be calling it quits in January?
burndive @ Oct 27th 2008 3:18PM
Profile 1.0 isn't going to tempt me to buy a standalone player (or recommend it to anyone else), let alone stand in line, but hopefully it'll put price pressure on the real players.
shawnmos @ Oct 27th 2008 3:41PM
It's profile 2.0 upgradable. 1.1 out of the box.
burndive @ Oct 27th 2008 4:07PM
Oh, I thought it was the 300. Good deal, then.
Mike @ Oct 28th 2008 12:56AM
Wake me when the Sony 350 is $100.
I got the Samsung 1500 (also 1.1 but add the 1gig usb drive and download the 2.0 firmware to have bd live) for $150 couple weeks ago and some had a 10% coupon making it $135 so this is no big woop.