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In Reply to: Now, with more information, I'm kind of disappointed posted by Jack G on September 16, 2006 at 06:35:36:
The HDMI version of the PS3 may still be the number 1 Blu-ray player to get -- even over the Panasonic (which I would say is number 2). They will probably sell out before they are released due to preorders, despite the high price ($599). The PS3's HDMI version to non-HDMI version ratio is supposed to be 80/20 in favor of HDMI, which, by the way, will be HDMI v1.3 (will anyone else even have this new chipset?).I don't know if the above two players have all of the following capabilities, but here's what I want in a Blu-ray player before I buy:
needs to output 1080p (real, not deinterlaced to 1080p) with the capability of 24fps, not just 60fps (60fps locks in judder with film sources due to 3:2)
needs to have HDMI v1.3 for undecoded DTS-HD Master Audio and Dolby TrueHD digital output
needs to have DTS-HD Master Audio and Dolby TrueHD decoding on-board so that other audio and special content can be muxed together for digital output (without an on-board decoder, the only audio you will get via digital output will be one part of the stream, not multiple parts of the stream -- ie; you can't overlay director comments while the soundtrack is playing, not that I would want to do this but for other applications the on-board decoder is necessary)
needs to upscale DVDs to 1080p
HD-SDI mod capability would be a plus, but not a necessity
It's kind of sad that Toshiba is still having the same 1080i issue, but they probably bought those Broadcom chips in very large quantity and wouldn't want to add to the loss if they were to use a better chip (they're already losing about $250 on each of the US model players they're selling now).
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- the shopping list - Joe Murphy Jr 08:50:06 09/16/06 (4)
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- latest deal at AVS - Joe Murphy Jr 08:38:03 09/20/06 (0)
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