Posted by Lloyd Parsons on 11/15/07 16:37

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ninphan <sjburke73@hotmail.com> wrote:

> > You know, less audio capability for more money, like the S300. Or hell,
> > practically none of the current or announced BD players will do online
> > interactive that Disney is spouting off about for BD. Or maybe only one
> > Profile 1.1 player will actually ship this year, and dates of bd movie
> > releases are being slid 'cause only the PS3 plays them???
> >
> > And the FUD that the PS3 will be upgraded to Profile 1.1 when Sony
> > hasn't said that at all.
>
> Wow six months later you're still going on about the BDP-S300 - didn't
> you return it?

Unfortunately no. I bought into the line that went, 'well Sony will do
the right thing and put out FW update that will pick it up'. When it
became apparent that Sony had no such intentions, it was too late.
That's ok though, the S300 does what it does quite well, it just doesn't
do all that Sony wanted us to believe it did.

But I'm a go ahead kind of guy, my PS3 is on its way so that if BD
loses, I'll have an excellent game machine to use up the last of my
hand-eye coordination with! <G> Gettin' old just ain't for pussies you
know?

The S300 will probably be sold at some point in time, as will the Yamaha
RX-V 661 I have.

> No profile 1.1 titles have been delayed, now you're spreading FUD. The
> first BD 1.1 titles to be announced are day and date titles, War from
> Lions Gate, Resident Evil 3 from Sony and Sunshine from Fox.
>
Didn't say Profile 1.1, said some were delayed because of some issues.
The comments at the time were that it probably worked only on the PS3.
Kind of like the crap that Disney keeps loading on discs that only the
PS3 does well.

> As for the profile 1.1 features, all discs will still play the PIP on
> all players, but as a separate featurette on 1.0 players, so you're
> not actually missing any content.
>
That is the claim, but I'll wait for the actuality. I don't take claims
about either side of the HiDef DVD war at face value.

> Representatives from Fox and Sony two weeks ago at the Blu-ray Event
> 2007 stated to over 50 members of the media that the PS3 would be
> upgradeable to profile 1.1 - that's why the PS3 was released having
> hardware that has the ability to decode 2 @ 40 Mbps AVC/MPEG-4 streams
> at once. There's just not been an official press announcement from
> Sony, because likely they want to let Panasonic's player come out as
> the first 1.1 profile player and enjoy a month and a half of sales.
> Panasonic is after all the biggest power in the Blu-ray Disc
> Association and one of the ones doing the most to advance Blu-ray,
> through their players, Panasonic Hollywood Lab testing facility, AVC/
> MPEG-4 authoring tools, disc replication lines at PDMC in Torrence,
> CA, etc., etc., etc.

Um, I read something about that. I think they said it would have 'PIP
functionality', but carefully did NOT say that it would be 1.1. Feel
free to provide a link that says otherwise. Personally I think it can
and will have that at some point, but won't be flabbergasted if it
doesn't.

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