Samsung Ships the First Blu-Ray Player

DigitalDame2 writes "PCMag.com reports that beginning June 25th, consumers will be able to purchase the first Blu-Ray player: the Samsung BD-P1000. The BD-P1000 is twice the price of the HD-A1 ($999.99 list), but supports full 1080p playback, something the first generation of HD-DVD players do not. It also up-converts conventional DVDs to 1080p to improve video quality and comes with HDMI, Component, S-video, and composite outputs. The BD-P1000 will be sold at more than 200 retail locations, including Best Buy, Tweeter, and Circuit City, and 10 Blu-Ray titles will be available as well."

No!

[rbarreira]

No, the PS3 had it first! Oh wait...

Re:Wow...

[Umbral Blot]

I think the point is just so it can be out there, to help solidify the standard and raise consumer awareness. That way when titles do start being released in Blu-Ray you will at least know that they can be played, versus the other marketing strategy, where they realease a bunch of movies in Blu-Ray, but no player, which would be stupid.

Re:Improve Quality?

[Carthag]

They've licensed the technology from CSI. You even get a voice recognition feature that lets you say "zoom... enhance... enhance"

Don't watch them all in one day..

[AWhiteFlame]

All 10 titles? You should -be- so lucky. Back in my day, we had -1- 240x180 AVI of a CGI dancing baby and we -liked- it. You young whippersnappers and your "1820q" and your "ePod" and your "skipe".

Sigh of relief sweeps Sony marketing HQ

[WasterDave]

"Thank god for that, the PS3 is starting to look halfway reasonable again".

Dave

Re:Improve Quality?

[Citizen of Earth]

They've licensed the technology from CSI. You even get a voice recognition feature that lets you say "zoom... enhance... enhance"

The CSI guys do a lot more work than they need to. When they get a blurry photo of the killer, they just need to zoom in on a skin cell to the point that they can see the nucleotides of the perp's DNA.

Re:up-converts?

[Igmuth]

it creates a psychic connection to the mind of the director of the movie, which allows the players to then output what s/he actually saw during filming.

Ahh.. that must be Lucas' plan. Once that tech is released, all versions of starwars will look like what lucas thought he filmed all those years ago..

Re:Don't worry you can't see the difference

[michaeldot]

I watch at 7' you insensitive clod!

Re:Don't watch them all in one day..

[martinultima]

YOU LUCKY BASTARD! Back in my day, we had a half-finished 40x25 ANSI animation written in QBasic, and we liked that a hell of a lot more than you and your stupid dancing baby! Oh, and that new-fangled IBM PC contraption or whatever it's called? Mark my words, that thing'll never catch on!

Re:information which is not there..

[Namronorman]

Disclaimer: I actually have no idea what the hell i'm talking about. I just read that review recently and was amazed, so I'm trying to sound like I know what I'm talking about.

By any chance, have you stayed at a Holiday Express anytime lately?

Re:Useless

[XMyth]

Yea, I can't believe they only plan on release 10 titles ever. That's just retarded. What are they thinking???

Re:Don't watch them all in one day..

[AJWM]

40x25 animation? QBasic? Luxury!

Back in my day we flickered the segments of 7-segment numeric LED displays, and did it by punching in machine code on the hex keypad.

(I can hear the next one coming: "Keypads!? You had keypads?.... We had to short out the contacts wi' our tongue, and put wires on our eyballs to see anything..." Although making flip-books from punch cards is probably more realistic.)

Re:Don't watch them all in one day..

[Doppleganger]

Bah. Gimme the old days, when we scraped the pictures on a cave wall with charcoal, and then just ran by it really fast...

Re:Early Adoptor? Not this time.

[trentblase]

When I was in Taiwan, I got one of those Apex DVD players in my Happy Meal!