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Sony's eSupport site has posted a firmware update for the Sony BDP-S1 Blu-ray Disc player. The main updated feature is support for Dolby Digital Plus and Dolby TrueHD audio decoding. Here is some more information...

Improvements over firmware version 1.60:

• Adds Dolby® TrueHD and Dolby® Digital Plus Audio decoding functionality.
  
• Improves BD-Java compatibility to enhance interactivity with some BD-ROMs.
  
• Enhanced playback compatibility with certain BD-ROM format discs.

Additional improvements over original firmware:

• Enhanced playback compatibility with certain BD-ROM format discs.
  
• Improves BD-Java compatibility to enhance interactivity with some BD-ROMs.
  
• Enhanced customer support capability
  
• Compatibility with the newly released BD-R/RE format (BDMV).
  
• Corrects the output signal status information for audio output and display when Linear PCM 5.1 channel soundtracks are played via HDMI.

Download the update from: http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/swu-download.pl?mdl=BDPS1&upd_id=2792&os_id=99

UPDATE: For some reason, the download site now shows the firmware as Temporarily Unavailable

Written by: James Delahunty @ 8 Jun 2007 17:16