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+ This blu-Ray player scores high on sound quality. - It has no outstanding negative points.
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Most helpful reviewsIan, Berkshire UK Home cinema enthusiast
- Good points:
- Very very good player, excellent picture and sound, on a good TV the picture seems better than at the movies.
- Bad points:
- None
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Confirmed purchase: 16 Nov 2009
Eric, St. Albans Technophobe
- Good points:
- top quality product but also top price. For me it was worth it but the picture quality
- Bad points:
- none
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Review date: 16 Apr 2010
Purchaser Home cinema enthusiast
- Good points:
- Deep colour palate, sharp pictures, very little picture judder when slow panning. Looks and feels high quality. Full count of HD picture coding. Fully loaded HD sound if your not using an amp.
- Bad points:
- No built in wi-fi. No inbuilt memory. Remote looks like it came with a budget dvd player.
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Review date: 14 Apr 2010
Purchaser Home cinema enthusiast
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Excllent picture, natural colours. Makes DVDs look really nice.
Built like the proverbial tank.
Good sound even with CDs - Bad points:
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Expensive.
Doesn't play SACDs
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Review date: 11 Feb 2010
Andrew, Home cinema enthusiast
- Good points:
- Picture and Sound excellent.
- Bad points:
- slow loading time of discs with BD content.
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Confirmed purchase: 09 Mar 2011
Purchaser Film lover
- Good points:
- Excellent product. Great picture and great sound through quality equipment.
- Bad points:
- LAN connection should be wireless
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Review date: 02 Feb 2010
Product Features
| 3D | No |
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| Playback formats | DVD Plus R |
| Playback formats | DVD-RW |
| Playback formats | DVD-R |
| Playback formats | DVD Plus RW |
| Upscaling | Yes |
| Audio technology | DTS HD |
| Connections | HDMI |
| Connections | Ethernet |
| Connections | USB |
| Number of HDMI ports | 1 |
| Number of scart ports | 0 |
| Release date | 2008-12-01 |
Also known as: SONY BDPS5000ES, Sony BDP-S5000ES, SONY BDPS5000ESB, SONY BDPS5000
Manufacturer's Description
Add more muscle to your home theater with the BDP-S5000ES Blu-ray Disc/DVD player. The BDP-S5000ES’s new 14-bit HD video processor improves standard definition and high-definition picture quality with the help of HD Reality Enhancer and Super Bit Mapping technologies, enabling extraordinarily smooth and detailed picture quality. And not only does it play Blu-ray Discs in stunning, Full HD 1080p/24p, it also upscales DVDs to Full HD 1080p resolution. Fully BD-Live™ capable, the BDP-S5000ES even features an Ethernet connection that allows you to connect to the Internet via your existing service provider to access BD-Live features and easy firmware updates.
HD Reality Enhancer/ Super Bit Mapping®
By analyzing every pixel of the video coming off the disc the player can automatically adjust the picture and enhance it to provide the optimum Image Quality. These two components of This player’s chipset allows for reference quality video playback and quality.
Isolated Audio Circuit Board and High Quality Parts
By keeping the Audio Circuit Board separate from other circuitry interference from the video processor and other components is mitigated and can be kept clean. The high quality parts of the player allows for uncompromising performance.
Rigid Beam Chassis & Dual Shield Construction
The combination of Frame and Beam increases rigidity and controls the fundamental resonant frequency of the frame panels.
Dolby TrueHD® and dts® HD- 7.1 Analog output & bitsteam out over HDMI™
In the past most audio codecs used compression that actually removes some sound data to transmit audio from the disc to the audio circuitry. This means that what you hear is a subset of the original audio. While this was very good we still lost some of the audio. Newer formats allow the Audio to be compressed but not discarded. This means that once the audio is decoded the original audio can come through. This player allows you to stream the audio out via HDMI to a Capable receiver or through analog 7.1 outputs for maximum compatibility with high end receivers.
RS-232C & IR Input for Flexible Custom Installation
By having an RS-232C and IR Inputs this player can work with a wide range of Sony and other third party custom integration solutions.
R-Core Transformer
Because of the unique design of this transformer it has an inherently low radiated hum and noise ratio as compared to other types of transformers. This translates to a better power supply for creating cleaner and better sound.
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Is this player capable of playing 2d content? Has this player got Super Audio CD (SACD)? Can this player be upgraded to have BBC iplayer and all other internet content that the new Sony BD players now have? Would it not be fair to say that this player, the BDP-S5OOO is now somewhat out dated when compared to the new Sony Blu-ray3d players are now on the market? I asked these questions on behalf of a close friend of mine who paid £1.000 for this player about two years ago and is now thinking of selling it for a lot less than what he paid for it. I told him he was mad for even thinking about selling it but he keeps going on about these new player that can play 2D & 3D content. As an owner what would you suggest? What do you think? Is my friend mad for thinkin about selling his BDP-S5000? Be delighted if you could give me back some honest feed-back that may help him make up his mind before selling this player for next to nothing. Yours faithfully Rod.
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Hi Rod
I was lucky enough to pay half the price your friend did for my player brand new and boxed so for me was a real bargain. It does not have SACD nor BBC iPlayer but that does not really bother me. Quality of audio playback is very good as is the DVD/Blu Ray and had very good reviews in What HiFi which swung it for me. Scouring the web further helped me locate the player for a bargain price. I'm sure the newer players have the extra features your friend desires but I am more than happy with what I have unless I go for 3D in future.
Hope this is of help.
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Harry, London Home cinema enthusiast
Score 8.0/10Price might put buyers off but I wanted the best player for my Home CInema and I am happy.
Confirmed purchase: 25 Jan 2011