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Posted by Roy L. Fuchs on 10/07/94 11:50
On 16 Jun 2006 03:58:24 -0700, lorincantrell@yahoo.com Gave us:
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>Tarkus wrote:
>> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1977327,00.asp
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>> Samsung Ships the First Blu-Ray Player
>> 06.15.06
>> By Dan Costa
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>> The format war between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD has finally reached consumers,
>> now that Samsung is shipping the BD-P1000 Blu-Ray player to retailers.
>> The BD-P1000 ($999.99 list), will go on sale June 25th, making it the
>> first Blu-Ray player to hit the market. Until now, the only
>> high-definition video player shoppers could buy has been the Toshiba
>> HD-A1, which has been in short supply.
>>
>> The BD-P1000 is twice the price of the HD-A1, but Jim Sanduski, senior
>> vice president of marketing for Samsung's Audio and Video Products Group,
>> says that won't hurt sales. "Dealer demand is really strong," Sanduski
>> says. "Yes, we are double the price of HD-DVD, but we are confident
>> people will buy as many as we can build."
>>
>> The Samsung BD-P1000 supports full 1080p playback, something the first
>> generation of HD-DVD players do not. The BD-P1000 also up-converts
>> conventional DVDs to 1080p to improve video quality. The player comes
>> with HDMI, Component, S-video, and composite outputs. Samsung has also
>> included a 10-in-2 multi-memory-card interface for viewing digital images
>> directly from flash cards.
>>
>> There will be just 10 Blu-Ray titles available when the BD-P100 ships,
>> including 50 First Dates, The Fifth Element, Hitch, House of Flying
>> Daggers, A Knight's Tale, The Last Waltz, Resident Evil Apocalypse, and
>> xXx. Sanduski says by the end of year the number of titles will swell to
>> as many as 200.
>>
>> This is one area where Blu-Ray could have a potential advantage over
>> HD-DVD. "Eighty-four percent of all the movies released last year were
>> made by studios that have announced support for Blu-Ray," according to
>> Sanduski. "That is a huge strike against HD-DVD." To be fair, some
>> studios plan to release movies on both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD.
>>
>> Samsung's BD-P1000 release comes as other Blu-Ray manufactures have
>> pushed back their launch dates. Both Sony and Pioneer initially planned
>> to offer Blu-Ray players in June, but have pushed their U.S. launch dates
>> to August and September, respectively.
>>
>> Movies on Blu-Ray discs will sell for about $30, according to Sanduski.
>> He compares that to the healthy premium people paid over VHS when DVDs
>> first came out. HD-DVD titles currently sell for about $20.
>>
>> Sanduski says that the Blu-Ray prices will come down quickly once other
>> manufacturers bring their players to market. "There are nine
>> manufacturers building Blu-Ray devices," according to Sanduski. "There is
>> only one building HD-DVD drives: Toshiba."
>>
>> The BD-P1000 will be sold at more than 200 retail locations, including
>> Best Buy, Tweeter, and Circuit City.
>> --
>> "I have not yet begun to defile myself."
>>
>> Now playing: "Uriah Heep - Why ('Look At Yourself' out-take)"
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>Went to my local Wal-Mart last night and as I always do I checked their
>inventory of HD-DVD players and discs. For the last 20 days they've
>had 2 boxed players (none displayed) and the first spate of titles,
>including one copy of Serenity (the only one I was really interested
>in). At first I thought someone had bought one as their was only one
>boxed player left and Serenity was gone. No such luck, found the
>player hooked up to a 42 inch plasma
Plasma? Barf! You were probably standing right in front of it, and
it was likely fed via component feeds instead of the digital HDMI
interface. Double barf!
> on an end cap display, and what do
>you know, the copy of Serenity was there too. Did give me a chance to
>try it out though, and I wasn't really that impressed. I'm sure it
>would have looked better on my set at home, which is not only a CRT,
>but properly calibrated to boot.
You need to compare a regular DVD out and an HD of the same scene.
The difference on Full Metal Jacket is quite astounding. The DVD is
shit, and the HD DVD is great despite the lower res mastering, and
poor print availability (and it is in the correct OAR).
With Blazing Saddles, there is no comparison. The HD DVD looks like
fine grained film right in your face! The old one looks like el
cheapo disc house did it.
>Just reinforced my theory that Blu Ray will eventually win this war,
Theory? BluRay isn't any higher resolution, and the discs as well
as the player cost MORE!
Any monkey could determine which one is the better value. Sony is
doing the same thing they did with beta to themselves. They are
shooting themselves in the head, much less the foot.
>and the improvement is not worth paying the big $$$ until prices come
>down.
You obviously didn't see the difference.
> Looking forward to the $100 Apex Blu Ray player that Wal-Mart
>will inevitably sell.
Oh yeah... the one with the SHIT audio processing.
The whole reason these HIGH end devices are coming out are to cater
to those of us that can afford the HIGH end gear, which would include
a player that has some nice audio DSPs in it that can pump DTS or even
THX feeds to my not so fucking cheap Elite Series receiver.
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