Any way you look at it, the Sony BDP-S350 is an excellent Blu-ray player. It's well designed and easy to use. It supports high-end Blu-ray features such as BD-Live. And it produces good-looking images.
The judges in our PC World Test Center evaluation graded the BDP-S350 with a mixture of Good and Very Good scores, with the Very Goods seeing a slight edge.
Of all the judges, I was the most pleased with this player. When it upconverted DVDs to 1080p, I thought it provided better color than the Sony PlayStation 3 did. I wasn't quite so impressed with how it handled colors from Blu-ray discs, feeling they were duller compared with what I saw from the PS3 in The Searchers and Mission: Impossible III, and just a tad off in Cars. I thought the BDP-S350 gave better gray and black detail in Good Night and Good Luck, where there was no color at all.
But another judge disagreed, saying that Good Night lost some of the detail in the blacks, and that the reds and greens were a bit off in Cars. Even so, I have to say that the images were pleasing overall; if you don't have another player side-by-side with it as we had, you're unlikely to notice these things.
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