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"Needs" may be the wrong word. If after Oct Blu is going to need additional hardware for P/P, what are the odds Sony will do them for free? Can the 300 be upgraded? And if it is a hardware upgrade, OBVIOUSLY it can not be done by connecting the player to the net for download (Sony have eth port??) or upgrade disc.
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and that I would probably need a new player later down the road for the ancillary gee-whiz features. Even the Denon isn't quite full-featured yet, but I'm already tempted. Must..... resist....
All electronics that do processing functions these days can benefit from firmware and software updates and the approach to that is to connect the device to your network and download current firmware. The PS3 and other blu-ray players don't need new hardware, just new firmware and software to take full advantage of BD. But all devices should do this, PCs being a prime example and TiVos being another.
-------------"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." -Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982)
Most BD players don't have the hardware to process two video streams. I'm not sure about the PS3, but none of the other players are upgradable to do PiP. they cannot be made to be compliant with profile 1.1.
Jack
What we're really talking about here is BD-J.
Here are just some of the players that currently support BD-J:
Sony BDP-S1
Sony BDP-S300
Samsung BDP-1000
Samsung BDP-1200
Samsung BDP-1400
Panasonic DMP-BD10
Pioneer BDP-HD1
LG BH100 combo Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD player
Philips BDP-9000
Sony Playstation 3
-------------"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." -Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982)
Do your homework.
Right now, all players have a profile of 1.0
You are confusing BD-J with video profiles.
Jack
Edit: I forgot that the Denons are 1.1 compliant, but they aren't out yet.
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HD comes with picture in picture now in all its units? NO?
Yes, HD-DVD has that feature. Would you ever use it? I doubt I would.
-------------"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." -Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982)
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The LG combo player doesn't have this ability. but it also doesn't have the HD DVD logo on it.
Perhaps you shouldn't have sold your A20.
Jack
has only one studio left that is solely HD?
None of the majors has changed, but there are about the same number of titles availabnle to both formats.
Jack
With the *possible* exception of the PS3, none of the current BD players have the required hardware to do Video 1.1. AFAIK, they cannot be upgraded. Its possible, that the PS3 may be upgradeable via firmware. Another example of why BD is just the PS3 format.
Jack
Edit: Its funny how the BDA has been rather quite about this. A lot of people are going to be pissed, having to buy an all new players if they want some of the extras.
I don't think any of us really knows for certain how many existing B-D players can be upgraded to 1.1 status with a firmware update: Beneath the surface, these are all computers after all, and PS/3 for one, relies on software, not specialized hardware, to do some of it's video trickery.
There are ways to provide features like picture-in-picture even with 1.0 machines, but once you start having to pack two versions of the movie on the disk--one with PIP and the other without--you lose any advantage you might've had with the 50 gigabyte Blu-Ray media.
Of course NO existing B-D player will be upgradeable to the 2.0 spec save possibly for the PS/3, but I think for most folks, having an ethernet port and access to web features isn't going to be a biggie.
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