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RE: Advice please..

Posted by 4season on July 24, 2007 at 19:23:58

In Reply to: Advice please.. posted by es347 on July 24, 2007 at 18:49:20:

The Blu-Ray spec itself is still evolving to accomodate fancier picture-in-picture, networking and interactive features. Blu-Ray players introduced after Oct or Nov of this year should all be up to the new v1.1 spec, and v2.0 is on the horizon.

My understanding is that Sony's Playstation 3 is far and away the biggest-selling Blu-Ray player around, and regardless of whether many PS/3 owners actually use it to watch videos, you can bet movie studios will ensure future B-D movies are going to play on it, so in this sense, I think it's as safe a buy as you are going to get. It already has the storage and networking called for in the v1.1 and 2.0 specs, and my hunch is that it will need only a firmware update to be fully compliant. Anyhow, I felt confident enough that I laid down my $500 for one.

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