PS3 Blu-Ray Disc Load Times Get Tested, Still The Best

What's not to like about PS3? Playing videos games, accessing Playstation Network, intuitive firmware updates via WIFI/ LAN/Flash Media, abundant of video formats support and least but not last, most consistent and fastest load times Blu-Ray player to date. The Japanese has put 2nd generation BD recorder, 3rd generation Blu-Ray standalones and the good old PS3 on test; no surprises here, Ps3 once again came out on top in team of disc loading speed.

If you have one of those older generation Blu-Ray players, you know how frustrating it can be when it comes to loading BD-JAVA interactive menu. Painfully slow! The newest Sony entry level BDP-S350 and a $2,000 flagship BDP-S5000ES promise an improvement in this area, but how do the 3rd generation BD players stack up against the cell-power PS3? Still behind and test after test, PS3 has proved to be the fastest load times out of any standalone BD players. Can any BD player come even closely to the PS3? It better be equipped with a Sigma design SoC SMP 8644.

Title in test : Men in Black

Sony PS3: 43 seconds

Sony BDP-S350：66 seconds

Sony BDP-S5000ES：67 seconds

Sony BD Recorder : BDZ-T50: 80 seconds

Sony BD Recorder : BDZ-X100：81 seconds

The author went beyond players loading time, comparing DVD-upconvert quality among the 5 units; and the result from ps3 is not too far off up against the flagship S500ES. Judging from the screenshots, the appearance of background lines on S500ES would add more detail to overall picture from a viewing distance, as the author put it, more high definition look. Frankly, it's darn hard to tell a difference. You'll be the judge.

BDP-S350

BDP-S5000ES

PS3

BDZ-X100

BDZ-T55