New Sony Players Cheat Blu-ray Specification Deadline

[admin]

In the market for a new profile 1.1 Blu-ray disc player to make sure that the player has all the latest features such as picture in picture commentary? Sony doesn’t have it covered. Beware of any players announced or are available before October 31, 2007 as they are not required to meet specification profile 1.1, which mandates a secondary picture decoder and full Blu-ray Java support. Among other updates , the players will now support true picture in picture and not just two versions of the film recorded on the disc, one with faked over PIP.


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[corey]

The article ends with:
"Why Sony would release expensive midrange and high end players that are obsolete within two weeks of debut is beyond me.

Someone is going to get screwed."

Why should this be a surprise from the company that brought us root kits on music CD's?

[GlocksRock]

Does anyone know what spec the new 40 gig PS3 will be?

[avaserfi]

Does anyone know what spec the new 40 gig PS3 will be?

The 40gig falls in the same category as the 60gig. It will have HDMI 1.3 and uses software for everything so will be completely upgradeable. Nothing has been said by Sony on its ability to be upgraded, but there are reports of DTS-MA encoding being worked on as well as bitstream output for the HD audio formats. As far as BD 1.1 spec there are some reports of firmware updates involving that too. With the way Sony is trying to use the PS3 to get BD in peoples homes I don't think they can risk not having it be fully functional, but then again who knows.

http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/news...ractivity/1060

[GlocksRock]

That's what I was thinking... with all the firmware updates for the PS3, there should be no problems upgrading it with the latest features.

[scitek]

I hope DTS-MA decoding is added soon. I'm hoping to pick up a new receiver soon, so I'll be able to utilize it. I don't want to be missing out on any more than I have to.

[aarond]

"These yet to be realized revisions have some in the movie industry worried about future compatibility of BD when using higher profile specifications on lower profile players. Remember, firmware updates can only fix software compatibility issues in existing players, not hardware shortcomings. That ‘virtual file system’ business looks like trouble in the making."

thank you sony I just love my Betamax

[dobyblue]

Comparing Blu-ray Disc players to Betamax is more of a stretch of the imagination than I'm capable of making.

1) All PIP content will still be viewable as 480p through featurettes
2) All movies and main audio tracks, featurettes, deleted scenes, etc., will still work fine, only the PIP part will not be compatible nor will "audio mixing"
3) Betamax's rival was VHS (JVC) - JVC is on the Blu-ray Disc Association's Board of Directors
4) HDM is doomed to niche status unless one format prevails - with a 2:1 software lead all year in North America, 4:1 in Europe and Australia and 9:1 in Japan, Warner may very well drop HD DVD early next year after their contract with the HD DVD PG runs out. SHould that happen the software lead will increase dramatically as movies like I Am Legend, The Wachowski Brothers new movie Speed Races, Roland Emmerich's 10,000 BC, New Line's Lord of the Rings trilogy and other Time Warner properties come out only on Blu-ray. Meanwhile HD DVD will be stuck with Universal and Paramount/Dreamworks, neither of whom can release any Spielberg directed flicks only on HD DVD because, that's right, the directors want to make money off the new formats as well as the studios and the electronics companies.
5) This word "obsolete" is used to incorrectly in this context. I don't know about anyone else here, but I don't check out much in the way of extras on DVD's. I have all three of the LOTR Platinum Editions (for the longer movies and DTS:ES tracks) and have 6 DVD's there which have not been out of the plastic teeth they live in. I don't check out the videos on Enhanced CD's, I buy them for the music. This whole profile issue is not a very important one and for Blu-ray to win they will need to sell a lot more than the 200,000 "obsolete" profile 1.0 players which are no longer being manufactured.