Disc Compatibility
Video Features
Audio Features
Internet Functions
Remote Control
Connections

Disc Compatibility

Disc Compatibility: The BDP-S5000ES is compatible with many disc types:

• BD-ROM: pre-recorded Blu-ray Discs (including DL)
• BD-RE/BD-R: recordable Blu-ray Discs (including DL)
• DVD-Video: pre-recorded DVD
• DVD-R: record once DVD
• DVD-RW: rewritable DVD
• DVD+R: record once DVD (including DL)
• DVD+RW: rewritable DVD
• CD: pre-recorded CD
• CD-R: record once CD-DA (music CD format only)
• CD-RW: rewritable CD CD-DA (music CD format only)

Region Code: Like DVD, BD uses region codes. The region code on your disc must match the region code on your player, otherwise the disc will not play. The BDP-S5000ES is Blu-ray region A and DVD region 1.

Copy Protection: Blu-ray Disc uses the Advanced Access Content System (AACS) to prevent unauthorized recording of copyrighted material.

Blu-ray Disc Overview: Blu-ray Disc (BD) is a new high-definition disc format designed to take advantage of today's high quality HDTVs. The resolution is up to 1920 x 1080 (1080p) and the data transfer rate is up to 54 mbps. Blu-ray Disc discs and players offer several advantages over the standard DVD format:

• Better picture quality: Blu-ray Disc is a true high-definition format offering video at 720p, 1080i, or 1080p resolution. While standard DVDs look very good on an HDTV, they don't provide a high-definition signal (not even when you use an up-converting DVD player). Blu-ray Disc delivers an extraordinarily sharp, clean, detailed picture, with deeper, richer colors.
• Better sound quality: In addition to the same multi-channel sound formats you're accustomed to with DVD (Dolby Digital and DTS), Blu-ray Disc offers Dolby Digital Plus and uncompressed 7.1 channel PCM.
• Much greater storage capacity: What makes Blu-ray Disc's superior picture and sound possible is the much higher storage capacity of Blu-ray Disc discs. A single-layer Blu-ray Disc can hold 25 gigabytes of data, over five times the amount a standard DVD can hold. Dual-layer Blu-ray Discs hold 50 gigabytes, which equates to nine hours of High Definition or 23 hours of Standard Definition video, plus high-resolution multi-channel audio and the added features and material that require multiple discs with standard DVD.
• Compatibility with your current disc collections: To ensure backward-compatibility with your existing library of discs, Blu-ray Disc players use a dual-laser mechanism: a blue laser for playing high-definition Blu-ray Discs, and a conventional red laser for playing DVDs and audio CDs.

Note: As Blu-Ray technology continues to evolve, new disc types with enhanced functionality will become available. In order for you to enjoy this new functionality, you will likely be required to update the firmware in your player. These firmware updates will become available for downloading from the Internet.

Blu-ray Disc Java (BD-J): The BD-ROM format supports Java for interactive functions. BD-J offers content providers almost unlimited functionality when creating interactive BD-ROM titles. Note: In order to enjoy these interactive features, you may need to update your player with the latest firmware.

AVCHD: AVCHD (MPEG-4 AVC/H.264) is a high definition digital video camera format used to record in high definition or standard definition on DVD, using an efficient data compression coding technology. The  format is designed to compress video and audio (Dolby Digital or Linear PCM) data, enabling a high definition video signal shot on a digital video camera recorder to be recorded on DVD discs, in the same way as it would be for a standard definition signal.

JPEG Playback: This unit will play JPEG still picture files recorded onto the following discs BD-RE, BD-R, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD-R, CD-R, and CD-RW. Still images on your disc can be viewed in a Slide-Show as well as rotated 90-degrees left or right.

Movie Files: The BDP-S5000ES can play MPEG2 movie files recorded on DVD-R/RW discs (Video and VR mode) and  DVD+R/RW discs (VR mode only). Movie title information is displayed on screen. You can search for a title directly using the on screen keyboard or sort titles alphabetically or by date.

Quick Start: This feature shortens the startup time from standby mode. You can operate the player quickly after turning it on.

Auto Power Off: The player automatically turns off if you do not press any of the buttons on the player or remote for more than 30 minutes, unless you are playing a disc or up dating software.

Parental Control: The Sony BDP-S5000ES offers three Parental Control settings protected by a custom user 4-digit password.

• BD Parental Control: Playback of some BD-ROMs can be limited according to the age of the users. Scenes may be blocked or replaced with different scenes.
• DVD Parental Control: Playback of some DVD Videos can be limited according to the age of the users. Scenes may be blocked or replaced with different scenes.
• Parental Control Region Code: Playback of some BD-ROMs or DVD Videos can be limited according to the geographic area. Scenes may be blocked or replaced with different scenes.

Video Features

Dual Shield Construction: The BDP-S5000ES model features dual shield construction, which prevents dust from collecting on the BD drive, and a rigid drive bracket to minimize vibration.

Rigid Beam Construction: The player also utilizes a rigid beam chassis that reduces internal vibration, improving playback.

Aluminum Construction: The unit's aluminum insulator feet and aluminum top panel help isolate the player from external vibrations.

Separated Audio And Video Circuit Boards: The player's separate audio and video boards deliver better sound and picture quality be eliminating interference.

14-Bit HD Video Processor: The BDP-S5000ES's new 14-bit HD video processor improves standard definition and high-definition picture quality enabling extraordinarily smooth and detailed picture quality.

HD Reality Enhancer/Super Bit Mapping: By analyzing every pixel of the video coming off the disc, the player can automatically adjust the picture and enhance it to provide the optimum Image Quality. These two components of This player's chipset allows for reference quality video playback and quality. The unit's HD Reality Enhancer offers the following selectable functions.

• Enhance: enhances the scene picture outline pixel by pixel from -3 to +3
• Smoothing: smoothes the gradation on flat parts of the picture; set to Standard, High, or Off
• FGR: reduces film grain; set to 0 to +3

x.v.Color: The BDP-S5000ES supports x.v.Color, meaning it's ready for x.v.Color discs when they become available in the future.

Deep Color: The Sony BDP-S5000ES supports a color depth of up to 12 bits allowing for more accurate color reproduction than when connected to an TV that also supports Deep Color.

24p True Cinema: Movies are typically recorded on film with a frame rate of 24 frames per second. When a movie is transferred to Blu-ray Disc at 24 frames per second the BDP-S5000ES will output that signal to the TV (if the TV will accept the 1080p/24 format) with no need for conversion.

1080p Output: Through the HDMI output, BDP-S5000ES has a 1080p (1920 x 1080 pixel) output option, at either the 60 Hz video or 24 Hz film frame rates.

Precision Cinema HD Upscaling: Precision Cinema HD Upscale circuitry uses high bandwidth digital-to-analog conversion and processing to detect image changes at the pixel level, rather than at the level of whole scan lines. Additionally, separate algorithms are used to process the moving and still parts of an image, resulting in sharper backgrounds with moving objects that are nearly free from motion artifacts. The BDP-S5000ES Blu-ray disc player is capable of upscaling your standard 480i DVD disc to 1080p via HDMI.

Video Settings: The Sony BDP-S5000ES features the following video settings.

• TV Type: You can select a 16:9 or 4:3 aspect ratio for the unit's video output to match your connected Television's screen aspect ratio.
• Screen Format: You can select the display configuration for a 4:3 screen picture on a 16:9 wide screen television. You can select from the following.
  • Original: select this when connect to a TV with a wide mode function; displays a 4:3 screen picture in 16:9 aspect ratio even on a wide-screen TV
  • Fixed Aspect Ratio: changes the picture size to fit the screen size with the original picture aspect ratio
• DVD Aspect Ratio: You can select the display configuration for playback of 16:9 screen pictures on a 4:3 screen TV. You can select from Letter Box or Pan & Scan.

Picture Settings: The BDP-S5000ES offers the following picture adjustments.

• Picture Quality: You can choose from three picture quality settings.
  • Brighter Room: use when the room is brighter than normal
  • Theater Room: use when the room is dark
  • Standard: use in a typical room
  • Video Equalizer: allows you to manually adjust contrast, brightness, chroma, hue, sharpness, and gamma
• Noise Reduction: This function reduces the noise in the picture.
• FNR: This feature can be activated to reduce random noise appearing in the picture.
• BNR: This function can be activated to reduce the mosaic-like block noise in the picture.
• MNR: This feature can be activated to reduce minor noise around the picture outlines (mosquito noise).

Resume Play: Resume play allows you to resume playback of a disc from the point where you last stopped. The stopping point is cleared when the Stop button is pressed more than once, the disc tray is opened, the player is turned off, or any of the settings on the player are changed.

Playback Memory: When you play a Blu-ray disc or DVD disc, the BDP-S5000ES stores the pictures settings for each disc, letting you play the same disc with the same settings later. The player can store picture settings for up to 50 discs.

Screen Saver: The screen saver image appears when you do not use the player for more than 15 minutes while an on-screen display, such as the home menu, is displayed on your TV screen. The screen saver image helps prevent your display device from becoming damage from ghosting.

Dimmer: You can adjust the lighting of the unit's front panel display from Bright, Dark or Off.

Audio Features

R-Core Transformer: Because of the unique design of this transformer it has an inherently low radiated hum and noise ratio as compared to other types of transformers. This translates to a better power supply for creating cleaner and better sound.

Surround Sound Decoders: The BDP-S5000ES has built-in Dolby Digital and DTS surround processors. Multi-channel PCM Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, and DTS-HD are output through the HDMI jack (when encoded on the Blu-ray Disc).

• Dolby Digital Plus: Dolby Digital Plus was developed as an extension to Dolby Digital. The audio coding technology supports 7.1 channel surround sound. Dolby Digital Plus also includes the standard Dolby Digital bit stream and is compatible with all current Dolby Digital processors using the optical or coaxial digital output.
• Dolby TrueHD: Dolby TrueHD is a lossless coding technology that supports up to 8 channels of multi-channel surround sound for the next generation optical discs. The reproduced sound is true to the original source bit-for-bit.
• DTS-HD High Resolution Audio: DTS-HD High Resolution Audio supports a maximum sampling frequency of 96 kHz, and 7.1 multi-channel surround. DTS-HD High Resolution Audio has a maximum transmission rate of 6 Mbps, with a lossy compression.
• DTS-HD Master Audio: DTS-HD Mater Audio has a maximum transmission rate of 24.5 Mbps and used lossless compression (Lossless), and DTS-HD Mater Audio corresponds to a maximum sampling frequency of 192 kHz, and maximum of 7.1ch.

Audio Output: The audio output differs as follows, depending on the source, output jack and the selected settings.

Audio Settings: The BDP-S5000ES allows you to adjust the following audio settings.

• AV SYNC: This feature adjusts the gap between picture and sound by delaying the sound output in relation to the picture output from 0 to 120 milliseconds.
• Audio Filter: You can select between two audio filters for analog audio signals.
  • Sharp: provides a wide frequency range and spatial feeling
  • Slow: provides smooth and warm sound
• Audio DRC: The player offers four dynamic range compression levels - Auto, Standard, TV Mode, and Wide Range.

Speaker Settings: The BDP-S5000ES offers the following speaker settings when you have connected the Blu-ray player to your receiver via the unit's multi-channel analog outputs.

• Speaker Size: Front (large or small), Center (large, small, or none), Surround (large, small, or none), Surround Back (large, small, none) Subwoofer (yes, no)
• Speaker Distance: The distance of each speaker and the subwoofer can be adjusted from 0 to 52 feet to match the physical distance of the speakers and subwoofer from the listening position.
• Level: Each speaker's and subwoofer's level can be adjusted from -12 to 0 dB in 0.5 dB increments.

Fan Cooled: A fan on the back of the BDP-S5000ES keeps the unit cool during operation.

Internet Functions

Bonus View: Bonus View feature provides "picture-in-picture" capability with select Blu-ray Disc titles.

BD-Live: BD-Live technology allows you to download and stream bonus content such as additional scenes, shorts, trailers, movie-based games, and more from a broadband internet and home network connections (fees may apply). The BDP-S5000ES features an Ethernet port to connect to your home network and features a USB type-A port, as well as comes with a 1GB MicroVault Tiny Flash Drive to download these bonus features.

Remote Control

Multi-brand Remote: The supplied remote is pre-programmed to operate this unit and a number of functions on multiple brand TVs. Once programmed, the remote controls the TV's power on/off, input select, volume up/down, channel up/down, and mute.

HDMI Control ('Bravia' Theatre Sync): Sony components compatible with the HDMI Control function can be controlled via the HDMI connection. This includes convenient features like One-Touch Play and System Power-Off.

Control S In/IR In: This is a 3.5mm input used as an IR port for adding on remote repeater systems.

Connections

HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface): The BDP-S5000ES's HDMI output simplifies A/V connections by carrying video and digital audio in one cable. This unit features HDCP copyright protection technology, and must be connected to an HDCP-compliant device. If your TV has a DVI input instead of an HDMI input, you can connect this unit to your TV using an HDMI-to-DVI adapter. You will also need to connect audio cables to the player because DVI is a video only cable. The HDMI resolution can be fixed at 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, or 1080p, or set to Auto, which selects the highest resolution accepted by your television. The video format can be set to Y,CB,CR (4:2:2), Y,CB,CR (4:4:4), or RGB (16-235), or RGB (0-255).

Component Video: The component video resolution can be set to 480i, 480p, 720p, or 1080i. If the HDMI output is set to 1080p, the component video output is fixed at 480i. When a DVD is played, the maximum component video output resolution is 480p.

Composite Video and S-Video: The composite and S-video outputs are always live and fixed at 480i. They can output video when playing a Blu-ray Disc.

Digital Audio Output: The Audio menu allows you to select the digital audio format that is passed through the optical and coaxial outputs. Settings allow you to transfer Dolby Digital or DTS sound tracks, or down-mix surround bitstreams to 2-channel PCM audio.

Analog Audio: There is a pair of stereo RCA outputs plus 7.1 channel outputs for utilizing the built-in surround decoders.

USB Extension Port: The BDP-S5000ES features a rear panel USB Type-A port which allows you to enjoy additional content (such as BonusView) on certain Blue-ray Disc titles. Some BD-ROMs have bonus content and other data which can be downloaded to an inserted USB Flash Drive (sold separately).

Note: The BDP-S5000ES includes a 1GB Sony MicroVault Tiny Flash Drive and does not guarantee compatibility with all other manufacture's USB flash drives.

LAN (100) Port: You can connect the player's LAN (100) terminal of the player to your Internet source using a network cable (Ethernet cable sold separately) to update the unit's software using the network. Visit www.sony.net for information about firmware updates.

RS232C: Only used for maintenance and service.