Having owned a HD TV for some time I decided to update a now out of date standard DVD player for a new blue ray player. Having looked around the Sony blue ray players get good reviews. I did have a Sony DVD recorder some time a go and had nothing but issues when playing less than perfect discs, it would hang and then jump several minutes ahead and didn't play other formats, so I was a little usure to go back to Sony it seemed to tick all the boxes. *Player details* Sony has updated the well reviewed S370 with the S380, some minor cosmetic changes to the front but nothing major. The S380 is a good priced player, retailing around £90-100 it ...  Read the complete review

Inevitably, there comes a time when you realise you have to see Flash Gordon in a higher definition than DVD can give you. I've had an HD ready telly for a few years, and now they're cheap and have won the format war, it seemed silly not to get a Blu-Ray player. This was the model I went for. It's cheap enough to not be an utter disaster if it doesn't work out, but expensive enough to reassure me that I'm getting something reasonably durable. It has the slimline black appearance that seems to be de rigueur for these (macho) appliances these days. Setting up was very easy. Plug the thing into the TV, switch it on, bob's your uncle. However, it ...  Read the complete review