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Input lag is a common complaint of mine, but absolutely _NOTHING_ comes close to the Sony BDP S300 https://esupport.sony.com/p/model-home.pl?mdl=BDPS300.

Key-press response time can frequently be more than 30 seconds, depending on what the action is. Of course, you might say, that is because of bluray bloat on more recent disks, but I can assure you that its been that way from the day I purchased it. Sure some disks were better than others, but the multi minute boot-up, disk load times, player menu popup times, etc have been there since the beginning. I used to use it as a demo against my HD DVD player of why bluray wasn't ready for primtime ,and it was a 3rd generation bluray player.




Given it's a BDP-series player, if you were interested you may be able to get a Linux shell of some kind on it and find out what's taking so long to run on it.

There's a whole lot of Phillips and Sony players that are based off some ancient Mediatek SDK.

Edit: Wow, that's old: Sigmatek, not Mediatek. A makefile in the GPL source suggests there's a similar Pioneer player somewhere, too.




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