Pioneer's BDP-HD1 Blu-Ray player works with Windows Media Connect

No, we haven't seen the expected BDP-HD1 Blu Ray player from Pioneer since CES, but might have overlooked an interesting feature. Aside from full 1080p output, the BDP-HD1 will also work natively with Windows Media Connect, which opens the door to additional content in the flavors of MPEG-2, MPEG-4 AVC, WMV, MP3 and more. According to Pioneer, the BPD-HD1 will also support the PlaysForSure platform from Microsoft. As happy as we are with this additional info, we have to ask: what's with all this Microsoft stuff working on a Blu-Ray machine? Didn't they "back" the HD-DVD crowd?

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 16th 2006 3:30PM]

Let's not look a gift horse in the mouth, and just say Thank yoou Pioneer!!

Of course, I have to question - Does it support UPnP or DLNA?

[BenD Posted Feb 16th 2006 6:35PM]

For what it is worth, DLNA support was mentioned on the Fact tag at CES.