Sony BDP-S1 v2.0
Sony released a new firmware for the BDP-S1 Blu-Ray Player.
Firmware v2.0 adds suport to Dolby TrueHD, Dolby Digital Plus, additional BD-Java features and more stability.
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Sony BDP-S300 will sell for $499
Sony drops the price of the new Blu-Ray player by 100$. The official price announced at Febrary was $599, but now the real price is lowered to $499.
BDP-S300 is half the price of the Sony’s first Blu-ray player (BDP-S1, $999, today about $799).
This is indeed the result of the increased competition in the “war of formats”: recently Toshiba cut the prices of some HD-DVD player models down to $299.
PlayStation 3 system software update
Sony has released a new sowtware update, version 1.80.
This new software allow the PS3 to implement some long awaited features as Hi-Def player.
The PS3 is now capable of upscaling non HD sources (such as standard DVDs, non HD Blu-Ray Discs and all PS3, PS2 and PlayStation games) to a resolution of 1080p.
The new software also enables downconversion. It is now possible to see Blu-Ray discs on monitors or televisions only able to accept 720p signals.
Full instructions and the free software download are now available from this Sony PlayStation website page
Deadline For BD-Java Hardware Support
Hi-Def Digest reports a news about an important deadline defined by the Blu-Ray Association for the BD-Java hardware support.
This means all the new generation hardware player/writer, released after October 31, 2007, must have full BD-Java support and a minimun 256 MB of persitent storage to be considered Blu-Ray compliant.
Panasocic new BD player with BD-J capability
Panasonic announces the release of their second-generation BD player, available now.
The new model is called DMP-BD10A; the price suggested by Panasonic is $599.95, with some Blu-Ray movies in bundle. This model also have BD-J (Java application) interactive capability.
New Player Capabilities in PlayStation 3
Sony annouces that their next-generation console will be “the most comprehensive Blu-ray Disc player on the market.”.
Read the full article from High-Def Digest.
HP Hybrid High-Def Drive
BetaNews reports an announcements by Hewlett-Packard.
HP will include hybrid Blu-Ray / HD-DVD players-writers in their Pavillon series PC.
