All-encompassing home entertainment.
Proving that your home cinema experience can be stylish as well as entertaining, the BD-Live BCS-FS500 is the ideal partner to get maximum enjoyment from your films.
Its minimalist slim speakers are designed to be the perfect match for your flat screen TV and – in combination with a 300W high power amplifier and down-firing subwoofer – provide a rich soundscape.
With the internal decoding of Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio Essential, you can enjoy high-quality sound that complements the images on screen.
The player gives you the latest BD-Live specification, allowing you to enjoy special interactive features and download bonus content such as additional scenes, trailers and games on Blu-ray disc.
Equipped with HDMI, the system supports 1080p upscaling, as well as Deep Colour for greater colour depth and detail.
A front USB port allows easy playback of your MP3/WMA music files, JPEG photos and DivX files stored on a USB memory device.
The versatile BCS-FS500 also enables you to entertain your guests with your iPod by transforming into an iPod docking station with an included iPod cradle.
Total Output Power 300W
Speakers 2.1 surround slim front speakers with 'down-firing' subwoofer
System Blu-ray disc player
Plays • Blu-ray disc (BD-ROM, BD-R/RE)
• DVD-Video (DVD-R, DVD-R DL, DVD-RW)
• AVCHD (DVD-R, DVD-R DL, DVD-RW)
• CD (CD-DA, DTS-CD, PC-Files [ISO 9660 file system only])
• DivX (HD), MP3, WMA, JPEG
Blu-ray Profile (+) BD-Live
BD-Live
BD-Live (also called BD Profile 2.0) players include a minimum of 1GB local memory and bring picture-in-picture and online functionality via the player’s internet connection.
The profile allows you to download up-to-date content to add to the movie, from refreshed trailers to exclusive special features.
BonusView
BonusView (also known as BD Profile 1.1 or Final Standard Profile) players include a minimum of 256 MB local memory and the ability to play Picture-in-Picture. This feature displays a second image in a sub window for in-movie experiences such as active audio and video commentary.
Audio mixing lets you switch the sound between the main and sub windows.
Deep Colour (+) Yes
Deep Colour ensures that all colour transitions and gradients are reproduced with the highest level of precision.
It enables increased contrast ratio, eliminates on-screen colour banding (for smooth tonal transitions and subtle gradations between colours) and can represent many times more shades of gray between black and white.
So what you see is as natural and lifelike as possible.
HD Digital Film Direct 24 (+) Yes
Put simply, HD Digital Film Direct means “Master Quality”: what you see and hear on your flat-screen is exactly as the film-makers intended. Absolutely true to the original.
We’ve applied this standard as a label (see the logo on the right) to those of our products that accurately handle 24fps (frames per second) movie content; this will help you make the right product choice for the true HD movie experience.
Films are typically shot, developed and encoded for cinema reproduction at 24fps.
Regular PAL broadcasting and DVD have always played these images back at 25 fps (50Hz).
This has the effect of speeding up images and raising the pitch of sounds and voices.
But, the new high definition discs, like Blu-ray Disc, offer you access to a digitised ”true to the original” copy of the theatrical movie content.
We offer a product range that is perfectly matched for bringing the real cinema experience into your home: amplifiers, Blu-ray Disc players, home cinema systems and flat-screen TVs with our trademark screening of 24fps source input at 72Hz (3 images displayed per original frame).
HDMI (+) Yes, scaling to 1080p
HDMI - one connection for complete digital transfer of all signals.
HDMI stands for High Definition Multimedia Interface and its purpose is to provide a single digital connection between one compatible product and another.
For example, a single digital connection between a compatible DVD recorder and A/V Receiver. Or a single digital connection between an A/V Receiver and plasma screen.
The benefit of HDMI is that it supports standard, enhanced and high definition signals via a single cable - there is no need for the signal to be converted from digital to analogue and back again. This means that no quality is lost in the straight-through digital HDMI connection, so you can enjoy the full quality of high definition entertainment.
USB (+) Yes
If you connect a USB memory stick to your home cinema system, you can either play music or look at JPEG images with the JPEG Picture Viewer.
iPod Ready Yes
HD Audio Formats Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD Master Audio Essential
RDS Tuner (FM/AM) (+) Yes
This convenient function of RDS can switch the tuner automatically to a station on a network the moment it starts broadcasting your specified type of programming - even while you are listening to another source such.
Power Consumption (in use / standby) (+) 70W / 0.33W