As friends, the devices from other major manufacturers call their own, had several problems with the playing of BDs some film distributors and have (the most prominent example is probably Avatar), and were added in some still technical problems the third even after the return or repair by the manufacturer were not to come to grips with, and at least I was able to exclude the first point to past experience of Sony Blu-ray player owners, I then decided to use the S-380.
The menu I already knew from the PS3, very clear, intelligent and exemplary.
It scales DVDs very good indeed high, also various audio and video formats via USB will be accepted without a murmur. So far so good.
Now we come to crux.
The playback of BDs is with this player to a Nervenzerreißprobe. He plays DVDs yet with a completely acceptable for me operating noise from (a relatively slight humming) is heard when playing BDs permanently a high frequency whistle, knocking down also at any point, and of course to hear especially in passages in which only held dialogues ,
I know God is not sensitive concerns what operating noise of consumer electronics and watch movies right out loud via an external HiFi Receiver on, my old X-Box 360 was pretty loud, but still within the scope and my old DVD player was depending on DVD right on the border, but this horrible high whistle is totally unbearable. It is a complete mystery to me how Sony can obstruct such drives, almost an impertinence.
Too bad, because the BD-image is knotless and otherwise I have nothing to complain about at the pure player, were it not for the unbearable drive noise when playing Blu-Rays.
Tomorrow the player back to Amazon.
