Sony's 3D-ready Blu-ray players released into the retail wilderness

Sony's latest Blu-ray players have been shipping online for a while but now they've invaded retail, spotted by our friends at FormatWarCentral on the shelf at a local Best Buy. A quick check on the website shows the BDP-S470 and BDP-S570 available at most, if not all, area stores so they shouldn't be hard to find. We know they're ready to give a Full HD 3D experience, and have speed to burn, but a few readers have already complained that the DLNA access mentioned in the specs isn't available yet, pending a future firmware update. If you just can't wait to get 3D ready (or just get a PlayStation 3) then this would be your chance.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 27th 2010 12:35AM]

Not to mention, a lot of the stores are getting aggressive on the old models (especially open box ones) in terms of pricing.

[JBerg Posted Feb 27th 2010 2:17AM]

{sits back and waits for the whiners to complain about the glasses...as usual}

[nrb Posted Feb 27th 2010 1:12PM]

@JBerg

It is the single biggest flaw with the concept and will kill it commercially.

So yea, the glasses suck.

[FabDex Posted Feb 28th 2010 8:06AM]

@nrb Forget the glasses: they are no big deal. The biggest flaw will be lack of good programming.

[Darren Pillans Posted Feb 27th 2010 11:57AM]

Other than built in Wi-Fi, the 470 and 570 appear identical. Is that the case?

I'm a little confused, I thought the 770 was Sony's only 3D player this year. What does the 770 have over the 570?

[FORDY Posted Feb 27th 2010 6:20PM]

Not in the UK. :(

I'm wishing I lived in the states more and more. I agree that glasses could be annoying to a certain extent - I don't think I'd bother for TV.

But for movies - and movies on linear TV - I would easily slip on a pair. Whenever my home theatre is in disrepair, or whenever I'm on the 360 I'm happy to stick on a 7.1 headset, so yeah, I'm fine with glasses too.

Just quit hatin' and enjoy the extra-ness.

[hpmoon Posted Mar 7th 2010 2:51PM]

At AVS Forum, someone received confirmation directly from Sony that, oops, they have no plans to include DLNA functionality in any forthcoming firmware upgrade. False advertising.