Are there any major differences between the sony bluray s301 and s500 other than the price?

Question

Are there any major differences between the sony bluray s301 and s500 other than the price?

Answer 1

yes there are. the 301 is a 300 with a hdmi cable included

http://forums.highdefdigest.com/showthre...

from what i can see they look to be the same except for a few tweaks here and there.

http://www.crutchfield.com/cgi-bin/ProdC...

for that big of a price differance there most be something, crutchfield has a great advice staff.

Answer 2

The 500 has Dolby® TrueHD Decoding and BD-R/RE Read Compatibility.  The 300 doesn't.