Sony plans cheap Blu-Ray player
The progress of new technologies is unstoppable. Sony plans to launch a Blu-ray Disc player in the middle of this year that’s significantly cheaper than many current models on the market. The BDP-S300 will cost about $600–about $400 cheaper than Sony’s current BDP-S1–even though the new player will offer superior capabilities, Sony said late today. Among these will be the ability to output a 1080P signal, which is the highest of several levels of video quality that fall under the high-definition banner. Many new televisions support 1080P, and it’s likely that consumers will increasingly look for this function, which until now could only be found on the most expensive players.
It will also upconvert lower quality signals to 1080P for output over the HDMI (high-definition multimedia interface) connector and can send out video at 24 frames per second, which is the rate used for films. Doing so is said to provide an image closer to that of film than of video. Other features include CD playback and compatibility with “Bravia Theater Sync,” a system that more closely integrates the control of the player with that of the television by sending signals over the HDMI connection. Also included is multichannel linear PCM digital audio output via HDMI, Dolby Digital Plus decoding, and compatibility with a host of optical disc formats, including the AVCHD format used by some high-definition video camcorders. It looks that the battle between HD DVD and Blu Ray is actually at the beginning…
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Blueray is going to get huge… zip-drive huge.
Seems Sony ain’t doing to well these days, hm?
LOL, Blu-Ray is fucked because Sony won’t let porn companies put their content onto the format – ergo, HD-DVD wins…
There’s no way I’m going HD until laser projection or SED sets come out anyway
I am more interested in playing 1080p .ts files that are downloaded from usenet and then hooking up the video out to a 1080p tv widescreen. But the problem is finding a cpu powerful enough to play them back smoothly, about what speed do I need ?
I was rooting for Blueray, ’cause the names sounds cooler, until Sony anncounced that the porn business can’t use their format. Serious, that was a fucking dub move. HD DVD is going to win the scene now.
and in that pic above, doesn’t the disc looks like a zip-disc?
Currently actually Blu-ray is winning. HD DVD is losing due to the fact that Microsoft developed it haha. Since all the Mac users who dispise microsoft would most likely go for blu-ray instead.
Porn industry isnt really a problem, who buys porn nowadays when the internet goes broadband?… Actually question is. who actually buy things now…. that there is so many pirates around.
I still think blu-ray will win, since most huge franchises here where i live actually is selling Blu-ray not HD-DVD. I have yet to see a HD-DVD on the shelf… either they sell hella good… or they just dont stock it….. Although i have seen heaps of places stocking Blu-ray though.
So i doubt that HD-DVD will win….
“Since all the Mac users who dispise microsoft would most likely go for blu-ray instead.”
LOL, so all of 3 people then
ehh , as far as I can see the whole idea of having a HD media is a waste of time anyway. We will all just download the stuff onto our comp and then run high rez stuff straight to our big ass tvs direct. Our comps are our HD players allready , all blue ray and HDdvd are portable media types. It just doesnt make sence to me to need this technology when we all ready have software for playing the formats and large enough Hard drives within our computers to store the HD films.
Its like allready having a DVD player in your computer , which is outputting to your TV – and going and buying a stand alone DVD player – Crazy.
Britney Spears will determine who wins, she says HD-DVD!