Samsung's Bi-DVD
The DVD wars hae been on ongoing. Japanese consumer electronic giants Sony and Toshiba have taken their stands, Blue Ray in one Corner and HD DVD in the other. Korea's Samsung has taken the technological lead and introduced the HD DVD and Blue Ray hybrid. Initial reports look good!... the BD-UP5000 is fully HD DVD compliant, able to play back all the interactive menus and features that are the hallmark of the format. I tested it with The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift and things came out flawless. Even though this was a prototype drive. Also, the drive has local storage and Ethernet, which are part of the HD DVD spec.Its a beginning. Perhaps this product and others like it will open the hi def video market a little more. The new player will be an obvious choice for many. Congratulations to Samsung not only for a promising product, but for jumping on and taking the technical lead!The UP5000 also features an HQV Reon processor, the same video scaler and deinterlacer that made the current gen Toshiba HD DVD player's images so good.
Blu-ray discs played fine, and I wish I'd brought along the Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest to see if the Blu-ray Java problems persisted. But I doubt that is an issue, given the fact that the bug is well known and was patched across the board last month.
Labels: Electronics
posted by Ray L. @ 5:35 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
Links to this post:
Create a Link
<< Home