Re: 2.7 Million Blu-ray players in U.S. homes

the price is now $273.99. what is going on? is this a stock?

274 for a BD player or PS3???? Not.

Sony's cheapest BR player is $399, and the PS3 is $399. PS3 profile 1.0, not sure about that stripped down BD player.

Now Amazon shows the BD-P1400's price as $297.95. This is a great deal especially for those who want uncompressed audio but don't have a newer HDMI receiver, since the player decodes all the HD audio codecs, including DTS-HD, and has the multi-channel audio outputs. It also has HDMI 1.3, with audio codec pass through, and 1080p/24 support. Like the PS3 and other Samsung models, it includes an Ethernet port for Internet connectivity. For those with less than high-end audio tastes the player can do MP3s, as well as play back JPEG photo, and reads CD, DVD, BD-R, CD-R, BD-RE, CD-RW, DVD-R, BD-ROM, DVD-RW.

It can't play PS3 games though.

Is it profile 1.1?

This is very interesting... Another $150 off and I might have to have both HD-DVD & BR...

Ahh.. The reviews reveal some issues with this model. What was it the Sony Boys kept using for a term.. Oh right, fire sale.

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[Post edited by shawnwc on Dec 9, 2007]

No I don't think it supports "picture-in-picture" since it was out before profile 1.1 became mandatory at the end of October. It is unknown if it is possible to achieve 1.1 compliance with a future firmware upgrade at this time. But I'd give up PiP before I'd give up DTS-HD decoding, multi-channel analogue outs, and 1080p/24. There is a big difference between gimmicky stuff like PiP to those core high-end features found only in the most expensive Toshiba models (XA2). Too bad the BP-P1400 didn't have the HQV processor chip set like top Samsung model has, or I'd jump on this at that price for sure and dedicate my PS3 to the kid's console collection.

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[Post edited by Skyhawk on Dec 9, 2007]

Skyhawk, let's not forget you can get the Toshiba HD A35 and the HD XA2 that have all those same features (1080P/24 support, HD audio codecs, HDMI 1.3, multi-channel 5.1 audio out, DVD and CD support, etc) for about $400.

On top of that the HD XA2 has the Reon-VX HQV video processor (regarded by many as the best in the business) that makes regular DVD's look almost HD quality. It really does an amazing job.

We sound like salesmen

Heres a nice link on the HD XA2...

http://www.audioholics.com/news/press-releases/HQVHD-XA2

I may end up getting one of these on ebay.

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[Post edited by Falcon01 on Dec 9, 2007]

Falcon, the XA2 is a great machine and in fact has the same HQV (Reon) video processor that the higher end Samsung BD-P2400 and BD-UP5000 have. Let me know if you ever run into a $400 sale price on the XA2. Then I'd donate my A2 to our bedroom.

HD XA2 on ebay going for less than $400 at the moment...

http://cgi.ebay.com/Toshiba-HD-XA2-HD-DVD-Player-1080p-New-HDMI-cable_W0QQitemZ190179654247QQihZ009QQcategoryZ15077QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/Toshiba-HD-XA2-Player-HD-DVD-Player_W0QQitemZ110202546345QQihZ001QQcategoryZ15077QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Right now they seem to be higher priced than normal but after Christmas they should be comng back down a little bit.

I must be a profit because I said that the players without Profile 1.1 would go on sale at a discounted price. Now we'll see SONY, Panasonic, Phillips and others drop their non profile 1.1 players at a great price.

Prophet