This is fairly significant news. EHD's obsession with "sub-$200 BD Players", which up until CES2009 have pretty much all been discontinued players being sold off cheap means that the significance of a manufacturer announcing a NEW sub-$200 player has been devalued, but nonetheless, the announcements this week are of Blu-ray finally hitting the $200 barrier.
Looks like a nice spec too. It's Profile 2.0 (not mentioned in the summary), and native support for TrueHD and DTS HD is very, very, welcome.
If I actually wanted a Blu-ray player, this would be top of my list.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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This is fairly significant news. EHD's obsession with "sub-$200 BD Players", which up until CES2009 have pretty much all been discontinued players being sold off cheap means that the significance of a manufacturer announcing a NEW sub-$200 player has been devalued, but nonetheless, the announcements this week are of Blu-ray finally hitting the $200 barrier.
Looks like a nice spec too. It's Profile 2.0 (not mentioned in the summary), and native support for TrueHD and DTS HD is very, very, welcome.
If I actually wanted a Blu-ray player, this would be top of my list.