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Goldmund is famous for overpriced electronics, they unveiled the Eidos 20 BD Blu-ray player. It looks like the Eidos 20 BD includes an AC-Curator power supply circuit, and a Magnetic Damper for lowering read errors. All I can say is you better have $16,000-$17,000 or a sugar daddy. [CNetCrave]
Sigmatek has joined the Blu-ray bandwagon with their new Blu-ray player called the SBR-1000. It’s going for about €250 ($364) and will be the cheapest in Europe. The SBR-1000 supports Profile 1.1 / bonus view features along with 1080p/24, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD and HDMI 1.3 support. Look for this cheap European Blu-ray player this April.
Harman Kardon will be releasing its DVC 600 Blu-ray player this September at IFA ’08 in Berlin at a retail price range between $885 and $994. The DVC 600 also plays DVD’s and CD’s and can upscale video to 720p. Additional features include: DVI, USB, analogue audio and video sockets.
Seems like Blu-Ray is the next best thing to sliced bread and Aleratec tends to agree. The 1:3 Copy Cruiser Blu LS features a LightScribe-enabled SATA Blu-ray burners that can toast BD-Rs at 6x as well as vanilla DVDs and CDs at higher speeds as well as a built-in eSATA connector and a dual channel eSATA host adapter. The only bummer with this awesome Blu-Ray disc duplicator is the high price of $3,199.
Looks like Kaleidescape, a company that is famous for their home theater video players will be going Blu-Ray in 2009 as well as releasing a player that features Blu-Ray, DVD, and CD compatibility, up to 5 simultaneous Blu-Ray playback, H.264, MPEG2 and VCD codecs, online video streaming feature, and Blu-Ray ripping feature with a per-copy fee. There’s no word on pricing or availability.
Plextor will release two new Blu-Ray / HD DVD combo drives. The PX-B920SA writes to BD-R at 4x speeds, DVDs at 16x, and CD-Rs at 40x, and reads HD DVD, while the PX-B300SA lacks the BD-R capabilities and just writes to DVD and CD. Both drives are expected to drop this month according to Plextor. Pricing is still unknown.
Buffalo is dropping a series of external optical devices in Europe. This model features a HD-DVD/Blu-Ray combo drive. The drive can write Blu-Ray discs and reads HD-DVD. Expect Buffalo to launch this drive in March in Europe, price is still unknown.
Great news for all you Pr0n fans out there who own PS3′s. Digital Playground will be ditching HD-DVD in favor of Blu-ray in 2008. Joone, the founder of the label, says they’re dropping it because Blu-ray titles outsold HD-DVD versions already. So Digital Playground and many other studios will stop selling HD-DVD titles by the end of 2008, barring something dramatic. Now you can look forward to scenes in high def! Can you feel the anticipation?
Since Blu-ray seems to be winning the HD format war, it might be a good idea to pick the winning side and buy a Blu-ray Entertainment Center. The Samsung HT-BD2 features a Samsung Blu-ray player and an 1100 watt 7.1 channel setup that supports dts-HD and Dolby True HD for exceptional sound.
CES will present the BDP7200 blu-ray player by Philips. It features Dolby® TrueHD and DTS® HD High Resolution Audio, multi-channel audio decoding and digital audio optical outputs. The BDP7200 supports 1080p at 24 frames per second (fps)2 cinematic resolution input with HDMI.
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