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check the chart

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Joe Murphy Jr

In Reply to: RE: Blu-ray on Sony PS3 is nice but fan is noisy. Other Blu-ray players? posted by AbeCollins on May 18, 2008 at 12:05:05

The linked chart includes discontinued, current and known future players. Regarding the profiles in Blu-ray, you need to determine what profile is relevant to you now and what you might want in the future. As for the audio, unless a player can decode the advanced audio codecs (DTS-HD Master Audio and Dolby TrueHD) and send the audio out the analog connection, you will need a player that can bitstream the new codecs and a receiver that can decode them. Otherwise, the lossy codecs and native PCM (which is disappearing due to the advantages of the advanced audio codecs) are the limit.

There are and will be inexpensive players coming to the market ($300 - $400, but not in the linked chart yet), but the best that they will be able to do is stream the advanced audio codecs to a compatible receiver, not decode them. Also not listed in the chart are 2 Pioneer players: BDP-51 and BDP-05.

Samsung builds junk -- that's CE 101.

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Any word on Oppo BD Player? - Harmonia 12:33:38 05/19/08 (2)
I know there's one coming but not soon.
- anticipation - Joe Murphy Jr 20:53:13 05/19/08 (1)
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  - I can't believe I read the whole thread. - Harmonia 21:40:29 05/20/08 (0)
    OPPO...
    
    They'll have one...someday, lol.
    
    To wait - ot not wait, that is the question.
    
    Interesting reading about the regiona issues. So far, all the European/UK BDs I want are R2 only, not available in US and the discs are currently issued region free. Possibly I can get by without hacks as long as the player converts PAL> NTSC.
    
    I still have dreams of that one box solution.
Small correction - David Aiken 04:02:11 05/19/08 (1)
You said "As for the audio, unless a player can decode the advanced audio codecs (DTS-HD Master Audio and Dolby TrueHD) and send the audio out the analog connection, you will need a player that can bitstream the new codecs and a receiver that can decode them." There is a third alternative: the player decodes the bitstream and sends an LPCM signal to the receiver for the receiver's DAC to do the digital to analog conversion.

David Aiken
- forgot that one - Joe Murphy Jr 19:31:55 05/21/08 (0)
  Thanks for the addition.
Nice chart! - AbeCollins 21:32:01 05/18/08 (1)
A colorful eye chart for sure and it looks like a lot of work went into it. It appears that there's a modestly priced Sony player "that has it all" due out later this year.

Thanks Joe
- kick-ass player wish - Joe Murphy Jr 23:48:26 05/18/08 (0)
  The PS3 in a stand-alone case using the future 45nm process for the Cell processor (it's at 65nm right now) with advanced (quieter) cooling techniques keeping all of the features of the 60GB version and adding advanced audio codec bitstream capability.
  
  No reason it can't be ready by Q2 09.

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