Just got a Sony HDTV and the bdp-570…. I keep my CD’s, DVD’s and Blu-rays MINT because when I buy them I make a back-up (first thing!) and store the originals. My gal loves a few of my bluray movies and a few of the standard movies I have on my hard drive..but I don’t want to give her the originals b/c she’s not good about keeping them in mint condition and the hard drive movies need to go to disc b/c I don’t want her using my PC. So…I have made back ups of the bluray discs for her and copy’s of my other dvd’s in the Avchd format using TsMuxeR and ImgBurn. I just bought her the BDP-S470 and we watched a few movies last night. I connected to the internet for the first time and did an update. NOW 2 WEEKS OF MAKING COPYS FOR HER DOWN THE DRAIN BECAUSE SONY PUT SOME KIND OF BLOCK IN THE FILMWARE THE BLOCKED AVCHD or something! IM NOT A PIRATER, I MADE COPY’S OF MY BLURAYS!!! Can I roll back the filmware update or copy my blu-rays onto dvd another way without buying a $300 bluray burndrive for the PC? This is way too controlling of them…. It’s reminds me of buying a car, then you get on the road and find that they will only let you drive on SOME roads some times……. not cool!!! Can anyone help??

Without Blu-ray, your HDTV is going to waste!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD_w79ikykU&hl=en

The Multi-Region version is available from Planet Omni.

This player is amazing. It’s clearly better than the first gen players, bdps1, even the bd91. there are a few little things to consider about blu ray. It SHOULDN’T play cds. if you have 1000 to spend on an Elite blu ray, then you should have good money, like 600 for a Cambridge azure or a like 24 bit cd player. blu ray lasers are very narrow, and will not read cds correctly, and to make them do so would be way more work than is considered worthwhile by the major manufacturers.