IFA 2007: Sony Blu-ray Players and Computers
HomeIFA 2007: Sony Blu-ray Players and Computers
Posted September 10, 2007 11:50 AM by Webmaster
Sony as usual showed a wide variety of Blu-ray products including a selection of VAIO computers equiped with Blu-ray drives, as well as the Blu-ray enabled PlayStation 3 (PS3) video game console. In addition, Sony featured two of their upcoming Blu-ray players, the BDP-S300 and BDP-S500, which soon will become available in the European market. The cheaper BDP-S300 model is aimed at ordinary consumers, while the higher-end BDP-S500 model is targeting HD enthusiasts.
Both models feature 1080p/24, HDMI, HDMI-CEC, Dolby Digital+, BD/DVD/CD playback, AVCHD, as well as x.v.Color (xvYCC) technology, an international standard for wide color space with more natural and vivid colors. The main difference between the two models is that the HDMI version for the BDP-S500 has been upgraded from 1.2 to 1.3 to enable bitstream output of HD audio formats such as Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD High Resolution Audio. The BDP-S500 also supports internal decoding of Dolby TrueHD. The BDP-S500 will be available in the US in October and will retail for $699. The BDP-S300 and BDP-S500 will be available in Europe in mid-September and October for €599 and €899 respectively.
We also spent some time talking to a representative from Sony DADC and learned that they have plants in the US, Europe and Japan that collectively produce about 20 million Blu-ray discs per year and they have the capacity to produce a lot more discs if needed. The majority of the discs produced are still BD-25 because PS3 games so far don't require the full 50GB (it's still very early in the PS3s life cycle), but 75% of the movie production is already BD-50 discs.
Both models feature 1080p/24, HDMI, HDMI-CEC, Dolby Digital+, BD/DVD/CD playback, AVCHD, as well as x.v.Color (xvYCC) technology, an international standard for wide color space with more natural and vivid colors. The main difference between the two models is that the HDMI version for the BDP-S500 has been upgraded from 1.2 to 1.3 to enable bitstream output of HD audio formats such as Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD High Resolution Audio. The BDP-S500 also supports internal decoding of Dolby TrueHD. The BDP-S500 will be available in the US in October and will retail for $699. The BDP-S300 and BDP-S500 will be available in Europe in mid-September and October for €599 and €899 respectively.
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PS3 demo in BDA booth |
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New Sony VAIO models: VGN-AR51SU, VGN-FZ21Z and VGC-LT1S, which features a slot-in Blu-ray Disc drive for playback and recording of Blu-ray Discs |
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We also spent some time talking to a representative from Sony DADC and learned that they have plants in the US, Europe and Japan that collectively produce about 20 million Blu-ray discs per year and they have the capacity to produce a lot more discs if needed. The majority of the discs produced are still BD-25 because PS3 games so far don't require the full 50GB (it's still very early in the PS3s life cycle), but 75% of the movie production is already BD-50 discs.