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Though, at $2K, they probably won't be flying off the shelves.
Jack
Edit: It'll have video 1.1 profile, but has no ethernet port.
Edits: 07/24/07Follow Ups:
for 2k , i'll vote for Sony BDP-S300 (or S301) big time. I actually own BDP-s301 now and i'm happy with picture quality , even with upconvert when playing SD.
You stole my thunder Jack... :)By the way I now own a PS3 as well as the S1 and I haven't even opened it up yet; I've had it over a week now...waiting for the right time to break it to the wife.
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Lets hope that it does not skip freeze and crash every time that it encounters a speck of dust like my Denon DVD 2800 does.
The question is, can existing players be brought up to 1.1 spec with a firmware update or not! Otherwise, who is going to provide enhanced content if it's viewable only by a tiny elite group with the latest B-D players.
A rundown of Blu-Ray 1.0, 1.1, 2.0 and 3 can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray
Since Jack hasn't mentioned it, I will: HD DVD already has these features and more (probably encompassing the 2.0 spec as well), and existing movies utilize it.
- http://sony.engadgethd.com/2007/03/24/blu-ray-players-get-a-new-standard-set-of-features-this-october/ (Open in New Window)
I'm guessing that video 2.0 and 3 may never see the light of day. I wouldn't even be surprised if 1.1 gets postponed again.
Yes, none of the players out now will do 1.1. The PS3, *may* be upgradeable via firmware, I don't know. None of the others are.
What will be interesting is how well the current players will read discs that have 1.1 embedded in them.
Jack
I always thought HD was about the actual content, not the extras.
-------------"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." -Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982)
Just wait until someone like The Criterion Collection does a disk in high-def, and you will probably discover how good those bonus features really can be.
I don't know about listening/watching Director commentary while simultaneously trying to watch a movie !?
Agreed! I am buying the maximum possible HD visual experience possible on a home based consumer machine not some video game or video game experience.
It's nice, depending on the bonus features, but honestly I rarely watch that stuff. Even if blu-ray provided no BD+ content, I'd still choose it over HD-DVD. The fact that HD-DVD provides these bonus capabilities but nowhere near the 50 GB capacity of blu-ray just proves that camp put the cart before the horse.
-------------"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." -Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982)
BD+ is an extra layer of security, an anti-copy protection. Word has it, that it was put in the specs in order to lure Fox over to the Blu side.
You are thinking of BD video profile 1.1, which will give PiP as well as other features. While many may not care about them, Disney certainly does, as does Warner and Universal. The BDA promised these features because both Disney and Warner were insistent on having them. Remember, it was Disney folks along with M$ folks who developed HDi for HD DVD.
The other issue, is that even if older players won't do PiP, they may have problems reading the discs that have it embedded, just to play the movie. Expect some messiness this winter when BD-V1.1 discs start coming out in numbers.
BTW, since the Denon doesn't have an ethernet port, it won't qualify for profile 2.0, aka. BD-live, which will be interactive features via the internet.
Jack
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