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Sony BDP-S550
alaSCORE 95

301 reviews

November, 2009

83 / 100

14 Experts

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88 / 100

287 Users

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alaTest collected and analyzed 14 user reviews of the Sony BDP-S550 from cnet.com. The average user rating from cnet.com is 87 out of 100.

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"Awesome picture quality! Beats out Samsung!nice product"

Compact very nice top of the line blu ray tha...  Awesome picture and easy to use and set up! Traded in my Samsung first generation BDP 1000 for this...

"Great Blu-Ray Player"

Much Better than samsung  Everything none that I can see

"Superior Blu Ray Player, Fast!"

Originally bought a memorex MVBD-2510 and was...  Fast and clear menus, plays Blu Rays and DVDs with ease. Also plays music discs and pictures if you...

"Outstanding Blu Ray Player"

Bottom line is simple, this is an outstanding...  Have been using this Sony for three weeks and its outstanding. Hooked an HDMI cable from Monoprice.

Average Rating

87

US

alaTest collected and analyzed 10 user reviews of the Sony BDP-S550 from sonystyle.com. The average user rating from sonystyle.com is 86 out of 100.

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Not what I expected from Sony

"Product worked well for about six months. Started to have problems w/ Blu Ray discs and was told we needed to update the firmware. By the second udpa...

GREAT

"I love the sound and picture with this blu-ray player. Its my first but with all other sony products makes great combo." ALL NONE

best Blue ray

"easy to hookup,load dvd's fast,great pictures,great sound,on scale 1 to 10 wich 10 is great,a give sony blueray dvd player a 11." everything nothing...

Great Blue Ray!

"This Blue Ray player does everything I want it to and more. The user interface is the same as my Sony LCD TV and they work like a charm together with...

US

alaTest collected and analyzed 2 user reviews of the Sony BDP-S550 from askmen.com. The average user rating from askmen.com is 10 out of 100.

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Sony BDP-S550

Hah, I was also thinking that. Not even shipped, and they claim it is widely available.

Sony BDP-S550

How can the Sony BDP-S550 be "widely available" when it has not even shipped yet? Sony says it'll ship in the "Fall".

Average Rating

10

US

alaTest collected and analyzed 1 user reviews of the Sony BDP-S550 from audioreview.com. The average user rating from audioreview.com is 80 out of 100.

Average Rating

80

US

alaTest collected and analyzed 17 user reviews of the Sony BDP-S550 from ciao.com. The average user rating from ciao.com is 93 out of 100.

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Sony BDP-S550

Sony BDP-S550 is the company's first standalone that might be a smarter buy than the PS3 for nongamers. The BDP-S550 is Profile 2.0 compliant, has onb...

Sony BDP-s550 blu-ray player.

A friend of mine got one of this sony blu- player a few weeks back. and he is well pleased with it.This player far exceeds the S300 in many ways. Firs...

Sony BDP-S550

...not help but see the SONY music ambitions to promote Blu-ray ... but Europe and the United States is the strength of high-end SACD can not be ignor...

excellent product to buy

...outstanding product manufactured by Sony . Sony always make good products,but in this product's case it is more than outstanding . The sleek and sl...

Average Rating

93

US

alaTest collected and analyzed 21 user reviews of the Sony BDP-S550 from amazon.com. The average user rating from amazon.com is 80 out of 100.

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bad player, worse service

bad player, worse service I ordered this blu-ray player from Amazon in March 2009. It stopped playing discs in August 2009. I contacted Sony service...

bad player, worse service

bad player, worse service I ordered this blu-ray player from Amazon in March 2009. It stopped playing discs in August 2009. I contacted Sony service...

Very nice units

Very nice units The bluray player i order was out of stock and they replace it with a better bluray player great service.

Very nice units

Very nice units The bluray player i order was out of stock and they replace it with a better bluray player great service.

AU

alaTest collected and analyzed 7 user reviews of the Sony BDP-S550 from cnet.com.au. The average user rating from cnet.com.au is 80 out of 100.

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Sony BDP-S550

S550 is "Excellence" S550 is "Excellence" to put it in one word.. The difference between this and the S350 is on board DTS HDMA decoding, which 50% o...

Sony BDP-S550

I have been using the Sony BDP-S550 for a week now and love it. I am amazed at the dvd up scaling quality you can see the before and after difference.

Sony BDP-S550

absolutly awsome even on a std def plasma (will upgrade soon) the difference over dvd is stunning. brilliant picture and sound / up scaled dvds are g...

Sony BDP-S550

I have owned the BD35 and found it good to use, but due to compatibility issues with my remote I was forced to sell it and buy a Sony S550, well I am ...

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alaTest collected and analyzed 147 user reviews of the Sony BDP-S550 from reevoo.com. The average user rating from reevoo.com is 92 out of 100.

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Sony BDP-S550

Great product and very easy to get around the menu. Great picture, better than my PS3 A little slow a loading disc content but as quick as my PS3

Passionate about Projection

Looks great, easy to set-up (incl. 5.1 analogue out sound). Super picture quality on BD and very goog on DVD, fantastic sound (better than my previous...

try to buy quality

Nice and simple design, clean elgant lines, ease of use, qualityt is superb Length of time to start up

Sony BDP-S550

Nice and simple design, clean elgant lines, ease of use, qualityt is superb Length of time to start up

GB

alaTest collected and analyzed 11 user reviews of the Sony BDP-S550 from whathifi.com. The average user rating from whathifi.com is 100 out of 100.

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Sony BDP-S550

I am using this model at present and am very very imressed.It ticks all the right boxes for features , especially full onboard decoding for all HD aud...

Sony BDP-S550

When using the analogue outputs, this model suffers from problems with the crossover not putting enough signal towards the subwoofer.  Just Google 'BD...

Sony BDP-S550

Very happy with this player, picked one up which does multi-region DVD to play my old R1 DVDs on as well and the picture is excellent. Blu-Ray is also...

Sony BDP-S550

Yep - it's not a standard size but there are plenty of stands from standland and avermedia to fit this width. At the time of writing this is one of th...

Average Rating

100

GB

alaTest collected and analyzed 13 user reviews of the Sony BDP-S550 from amazon.co.uk. The average user rating from amazon.co.uk is 88 out of 100.

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Very reliable Blu-ray, DVD & CD player

Very reliable Blu-ray, DVD & CD player Had this player for nearly a year now. I'm very impressed with the blu-ray picture quality, had no problems pla...

Excellent Piece of kit.

Excellent Piece of kit. I will make this review as clear as possible. Amazing picture,surround sound excellent,easy set up including the software upda...

Why is life getting so complicated?

Why is life getting so complicated? First there was CD. You put the disk in and it plays sound. Then there was DVD. You put the disk in and see pictur...

Totally annoyed

Totally annoyed Bought this player from amazon in May,Read all the glowing reports and then decided to upgrade to this player. I can honestly say what...

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