Sony ships their first Blu-Ray player
Despite all their recent supply problems, Sony announced they have finally begun shipping their first dedicated Blu-Ray Disc player, the BDP-S1. This player is capable of a 1920 x 1080p (progressive) resolution through HDMI, backward compatibility with DVDs, upscaling to 1080p, and most of the features you expect to have in a high-end player. You can expect to see this player in all major consumer electronic shops just in time for the holidays for a retail price somewhere around the $1000 mark. This price tag will surely make many consumers think about it twice, especially because of the limited movie library which is no better than HD DVD’s, while the player itself does come at an added cost.
Sony’s BDP-S1 model outputs 1920 x 1080p (progressive) high-definition video. It is the highest resolution HD signal currently available through an HDMI connection. The player supports various high quality video codecs, including MPEG2, MPEG4-AVC and VC1. For those consumers who own an HDTV set without HDMI, an analog component output for 1080i (interlaced) has been included. The model is compatible with standard DVDs with the added feature of 1080p upscaling through HDMI, giving new life and improving the picture performance of existing DVD libraries. Enhancing the entertainment experience further Sony’s BD player outputs its signal at 24 frames per second, reproducing a film like image. The main problem still remains the price though, but this should change quickly – do you remember the prices of first DVD readers?
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The problem is the price like you said, the average person doesn’t want to pay ^£200 for something that plays them movies.
Sure the price of the first DVD players was high, not sure how high but i would guess the $900 mark. the thing is that they can’t reduce the price on these blue ray players too much as they are using the high price to get people to buy a PS3 as its a cheaper alternative.
Which ever out of the HD-DVD and Blu ray get the player price down first is likely to become the main next format, each has pretty good backing from film companies and i can see for a while films being released regularly on both.
In england at least i think i saw only 3% of the Television owning public has a HDTV meaning that these new formats aren’t going to have much of an impact here for a while, maybe a year or so and one will start coming out on top, personally i don’t care about HD movies, DVD quality suits me fine.
Is this the one with the elaborate copy protection?? Anyway, DVD is MORE than sufficient for me, it will be awhile till I f*ck with Blu-Ray. The prices are too high.
let us wait till 1Tb holographic or something like arrive then we could get ths blue ray at $100 or 50