Sony finally has a blu-ray product out on the market. Well, acutally out in pre-order.Sony has been touting their blu-ray format that is backed by many different tech companies as well as movie companies alike.
Toshiba has now beat Sony to the front with their own HD-DVD player at the moment but the Sony BDP-S1 is expected to ship around August 15, 2006.
There are other blu-ray disc drives coming out sooner than that including many for the computer.
Sony's new blu-ray format is expected to hold 50GB of data by the time they release the dual-layer format. Another company working on the blu-ray drive is also supposedly working on an eight layer (yeah, that's a lot of layers) version that can hold about 200GB.
The new blu-ray system can push a 1080p picture as well as upscale existing DVD's to 1080p. It will also play mp3's from DVD's (no CD's) and also view pictures stored on DVD. As far as I can tell it does not play CD's.
Obviously to get the 1080p picture you have to have a 1080p TV otherwise your looking at a downscaled picture.
The new Sony blu-ray player will be sold at a price-tag of $999 (US). There are now indications about Canada yet but I assume it will be released here about the same time.
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