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Sony sticks a 100GB Blu-ray drive into a 3D telly
JAPANESE ELECTRONICS CONGLOMERATE Sony has announced a 3D television with a built-in Blu-Ray drive.
It comes shortly after a report claiming that Brits, being the smart folks that we are, have not bought into the marketing guff surrounding 3D televisions.
However, Sony is hoping that by combining its two headline consumer technologies, 3D and Blu-ray, into one not so useful package the combination will somehow sell itself to punters.
The televisions themselves come in two flavours, the high-end Bravia HX80R with LED backlit screen sizes of 40, 46 and 55-inches, a built-in 500GB hard drive and of course 3D Blu-Ray recording and playback. For those who can't be bothered with 3D, there's the EX30R in 26 and 30-inch screen sizes. Both televisions are scheduled for release by the first week of December, however no pricing has yet been made public.
The firm wasn't content with pushing out a load of high-end tellys, as it announced a boatload of standalone Blu-Ray players too. The six new models all support BDXL discs that have a capacity of 100GB but also feature built-in hard drives in various capacities from 320GB up to 2TB.
Apparently the drives need just half a second to start playing video from a standby state, which is pretty impressive if you can insert a disc in that time. The drives are scheduled to tip up by the end of October, though being high-end units carrying a Sony badge, expect prices to be somewhere north of £500.
Finally, if all that sounds a little rich for your blood, the outfit revealed a relatively bog standard 3D Blu-Ray player for which its low profile of 36mm appears to be the only thing to shout about. The wafer thin unit should be on the shelves by the end of September.
All that's left for Sony and its competitors to do is to convince punters that they actually need 3D TV. µ
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I don't think bluray is dead, its still ideal to have a stack of discs and just stick the one you want to watch in. At least from the consumer point of view.
However, when buying a bluray player (still deciding for one), I am looking for one that has USB HD support, supports multiple formats (MKV i.e. .H264, DivXHD, XviD) and has wifi/lan so I can stream to it.
I think these sets make more sense than having a multimedia PC built and connected to your TV, it comes firstly cheaper, is basically plug and play and right out of the box.
Though I won't argue the idea of having a central PC for all things multimedia is a sweet idea if the price point was right, but till then multifunctioning units will be the in thing at least for the next few years.
do you think bluray will ever catch on?
big harddrives are more affordable than ever now and media PCs play ALL file types.
even dedicated HDD media players can handle the more obscure movie formats now and give HDMI and optical/coaxial digital audio
why restrict yourself to 1 format when a media PC will be fully supportive and also adapt to new technologies?
bluray is old hat and only serves to rip off the thick
Sony forced Bluray on consumers? Is that a joke? Sony was just one of many Manufacturers of the BDA (Bluray Disc Association). If you do your research Bluray has been around a lot longer than HD-DVD. I think you are just bitter that HD-DVD lost! Why I don't know you can pick up blu-ray discs at bargain price from Amazon and such places!
You should be thankful that there is only one HD Disc format now rather than 2, had the format war still gone on to date it would have been a lot worse off for consumers!
As far as I'm concerned, Sony can very well stick it. I'm still ticked at how they forced Blu-Ray on the consumers. HD DVD would be 1/2 the price of Blu-Ray by now, and still as good in picture and sound.
3D will not catch on. Period. I won't even look at one of these things until I can outfit my family of 5 for $50 total, or close to it. I will not pay $150 to replace a set of glasses that my 1st grader won't put away properly, especially since neither he nor his siblings put their game disks away after playing them.
And yes, that probably means passive glasses will be necessary.
I wonder how many other people feel exactly the same way I do?
Taking from EyeFinity, 3,4 or 6, Now maker new TV thats 1080P & 3 units long, like eyefinity3 only NO Distracting Frames,thru mid areas of screen. Give Me That Sony.
How about 3,000 x 4,000 pixels or 6 screens all Glued Together. Ummm. hope standard makes IT before 120 MegaPixels . Well, that'll be Great
Day.Good Start for Eyefinity6, 3Kx4K Pixs.
BluVey needs More Pixels to impressadditional content upon Iris. Even DVD has surplus of DAT inside disc,Usein'Electronic boost to1080P, even dvd does ?blu.So Larger Screen & format, even EyefinityX,help Boost 'Ole Blu Roll Around to New Standard. If Buyer Already Wears Correction Glasses, How'd that Work. 3D or 3 Screens. Too much Gizmo Eye Thinqs.More Screen,More Pixels,MoreBlu.DTVS
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