http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/30/philips-bdp7100-blu-ray-player-lands-at-ifa/ Engadget Comments for Philips BDP7100 Blu-ray player lands at IFA http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/30/philips-bdp7100-blu-ray-player-lands-at-ifa/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/30/philips-bdp7100-blu-ray-player-lands-at-ifa/
Lets just end this stupid format war.]]>Aug 30th 2007 11:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/30/philips-bdp7100-blu-ray-player-lands-at-ifa/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/30/philips-bdp7100-blu-ray-player-lands-at-ifa/Aug 30th 2007 11:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/30/philips-bdp7100-blu-ray-player-lands-at-ifa/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/30/philips-bdp7100-blu-ray-player-lands-at-ifa/Aug 31st 2007 12:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/30/philips-bdp7100-blu-ray-player-lands-at-ifa/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/30/philips-bdp7100-blu-ray-player-lands-at-ifa/Aug 31st 2007 12:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/30/philips-bdp7100-blu-ray-player-lands-at-ifa/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/30/philips-bdp7100-blu-ray-player-lands-at-ifa/Aug 31st 2007 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/30/philips-bdp7100-blu-ray-player-lands-at-ifa/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/30/philips-bdp7100-blu-ray-player-lands-at-ifa/Aug 31st 2007 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/30/philips-bdp7100-blu-ray-player-lands-at-ifa/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/30/philips-bdp7100-blu-ray-player-lands-at-ifa/
I know one of the BluRay group's goals is to prevent a hardware price free-fall like what happened w/ DVD around 2001, but there have been no price reductions from 1st gen all the way to the 3rd gen of Samsung players, or 2nd gen of Panasonic /Sony/Philips players. There's very little TrueHD and no DTS-HD Master support, there's marginal internet connectivity support, there's no fully-functional HDMI 1.3 support, and most importantly... there's no price drop.

Toshiba's first generation players had what I would consider standard first generation issues (mainly load time) but a full feature set and great image/sound performance. The second generation became more refined, maintained the robust feature set, and drove the prices down. The first generation of BluRay players were more refined but lack a full and networking feature set as well as a finalized disc requirement spec. The second and third generation players have added very little to that and haven't lowered prices either. I'm willing to support both formats, but if BluRay isn't willing to either bring prices down or add key features (though they should be doing both), then there's no incentive for me to upgrade from my first generation player. ]]>Aug 31st 2007 11:04AM