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Tag Archives: blu-ray
Windows vs Apple, blu-ray envy
Microsoft is swinging at Apple again with this new commercial featuring a Windows 7 laptop showing Avatar on a blu-ray disc and a jealous MacBook looking from the side. In countries such as Sweden it sure can be painful that there’s no Apple computer with a blu-ray player available – since you can’t rent any movies through iTunes. But in other countries where you can rent HD movies the problem is much smaller. I use a Mac mini as the center of my home entertaiment system and it sure is a shame that I need to have a blu-ray player as well. I definitely see why Apple want to skip this step and move directly to streaming media, but we’re not there yet.
Panasonic Full HD 3D System
Today Panasonic announced that their new Full HD 3D theatre system is available at Best Buy’s Magnolia store for $2899.99. The system will give you a 50-inch 3D capable Viera VT20 plasma, a 3D capable blu-ray player (DMP-BDT300 – SRP 399.95) and one pair of Panasonic 3D Active Shutter Lens Eyewear (TY-EW3D10U $149.95). Full press info inside.
Samsung HT-BD3252
Samsung HT-BD3252 is a new complete home entertainment system containing, combined Blu-ray player / receiver, 5.1 speakers (the rear ones are wireless) and support for all the latest high definition audio and video codecs. The system will be out in August for $799. More information inside.
Sony BDP-S360 and BDP-S560
Today Sony announced the two new stand-alone blu-ray players BDP-S360 and BDP-S560. Both models support 7.1 HD sound (Dolby® TrueHD, Dolby® Digital Plus, DTS®-HD High Resolution Audio, and DTS-HD Master Audio decoding), deep color video output, USB flash storage device. The big difference between the two players is that the BDP-S560 also features a front USB port, and built-in WiFi for BD-live material and automatic firmware updates. The players will be shipping this summer and will retail for about $300 (BDP-S360) and $350 (BDP-S560).
TV with built-in blu-ray player
I would personally prefer a cheaper TV without a built-in PC or blu-ray player, but it’s still really interesting to see all these new machines hitting the market in a rapid pace. The Allio PCTV comes with a built-in home theater PC including a blu-ray drive. The flagship model is $2799…
Allio 42-inch HDTV with PC and Blu-ray Player [hothardware.com]
Standalone Blu-ray drops
If you look at the sales figures showing how many standalone blu-ray players that have been sold the last couple of months, you can see that the sales figures have dropped almost 40% between January and March – and that is quite a surprise since at least I expected to see a dramatic increase when the format war ended. It will be really interesting to see how long it will take until standalone blu-ray players reach the price level of around $100…
Blu-ray hits bumps in the road to HD market dominance [arstechnica.com]