VideoBusiness has got a few more details on what to expect from Samsung's third generation Blu-ray player, the
BD-P1400. Look for the player to make its debut on August 31 at the 2007 IFA in Berlin, with support for Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby True HD and DTS-HD audio, as well as a built in Ethernet port. Whether it will meet the
new standards for Blu-ray players released after October remains unanswered, as well as how much it will cost. With Sony's
BDP-S300 and
recently price-reduced PlayStation 3 both already on the market at $499, we'll soon see how much lower prices can get.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
bfdtv @ Jul 11th 2007 2:21PM
Let's home Samsung has some common sense and keeps the Silicon Optix ReonVX for high-quality DVD playback, while adding the features the BD-P1200 lacked, including:
6.1/7.1 LPCM support
Dolby TrueHD decoding
DTS-HD MA decoding
bitstream output of advanced codecs via HDMI 1.3
profile 1.1 compliance (PIP, etc)
Mick @ Jul 11th 2007 7:48PM
The PS3 is now $499. Any average guy is going to buy a PS3 over a dedicated player for the same or more money, am I right? So, I'm guessing they have to get way cheaper than the PS3. I mean if you can stand your BluRay player looking like a george foreman grill, it's like you get the game player aspect of the machine free.
I have the 20 GB model. The original $499 PS3.