A review of the Sony BDP-S360 Blu-ray Player
Unbeatable Editor Review

Last year, Sony launched the BDP-S350 Blu-ray player which offered great features and with the new BDP-S360, Sony has added a few extras for your viewing pleasure.

The BDP-S360 has a minimal design and looks quite plain, however with the shiny front and illuminated blue text, however this is all that's necessary. It has a slim body so will look great within your home entertainment area. A flap covers the buttons and slide out disk tray.

Features

Sony have included BD Live with the S360 allowing you to download trailers, bonus features, news and games by connecting to the Internet. There is also 24p True Cinema, 1080p high definition video content, Photo TV HD to view your images, Precision Drive HD which makes the best of disks that have been scratched, 7.1 channel High Definition Surround Sound Bitstream via HDMI, Quick start-up mode and Bravia Sync technology.

Performance

As we expected from a Sony Blu-ray player, images were displayed extremely well with a great level of detail and spot on colour reproduction. The S360 booted up extremely quickly ready to play although took a bit longer than expected to load a disk. As with all Sony, players there are many technologies that add to a good performance such as x.v.colour and Deep Colour technology which were evidently used in displaying such great colours and depth to images. Sound from the S360 itself was good but further enhanced by the TV's sound which gave it a much needed boost.

Overall Opinion

We were impressed with the design, features and performance of the Sony BDP-S360 Blu-ray Player and along with a budget pricetag, we think this is a wise choice.

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