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Next wave of Blu-ray players threaten universal compatibility. What now, Sony?

Posted Mar 26, 2007 at 11:27PM EST by Mabie A.

Listed in: PS3 Tags: gaming accessories, Philips, Sony

October 31st. This is the date that will mark the end of the first wave of Blu-ray Disc Players. Particularly, this date officially marks the mandate of the Blu-ray Disc Association, which will have all hardware streeting capable of playing back picture-in-picture video, thanks to the BD Java Interactive technology.

Cool, then. We're gonna have more Blu-ray options. But that isn't exactly bringing in good news for us consumers, and especially not the manufacturers. The thing is, there's only a handful of Blu-ray players currently out in the market that include picture-in-picture capability. For example, Sony's PS3.

The dilemma here rises from these stand-alone models not being able to play these newly-formatted Blu-ray discs because they lack this feature. As such, a disc with this picture-in-picture feature might not be able to play at all in these current models. Sony, and Philips as well (who also has a stand-alone Blu-ray Disc player model), would then have to find a workaround in order to get these discs working universally.

Well, they don't necessarily have to hold up the whole sky by themselves. But if they don't want to be left behind in the race by coming out too soon than the Association's mandate, then they'd have to have a good headstart brainstorming that workaround. And they better get to work now. Especially Sony, lest they get their hopes dashed of boosting the PS3 sales with the Blu-ray. After all, we doubt if those after the Blu-ray capabilities of the PS3 would be so enticed to get one if its features would turn out to be near-obsolete.

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the easier it is to tell immediately that they are just spreading rumors to get hits on the site. its a double edged sword these days. you get the news faster but 90% of it is BS spread pseudo-technical wanna-bes.

You can almost be guaranteed that at MOST you might not have some menu features but can still play the movie which is what 99% of all people who watch HD content care about. After all its still just a meta file system just like DVDs were.

# Its called doing you research — Guest 2007-03-27 04:22

Yes, the PS3 should be-able to support BDJ with firmware updates. But it has been reported, even by Sony that First gen standalone players donot have BDJ support. And FYI, the BDA standards were not even finalized when the samsung and Sony stand Alone players we Launched. Blu-Ray still isnt finsihed. And wholly cow, Looking down at Hohlraum, you blufanboys certainly have thin skin.

# just like old times.... — Guest 2007-03-27 05:00

this sounds a lot like first gen dvd players. Many newer and even a good few older dvd movies will not play right on them.

only difference is that blu-ray players have firmware updates to increase their functionality while the dvd players did not

# Thats what they said about Back Compatibility — highps3 2007-03-27 05:53

LOL atleast Blu Ray has movies to play unlike HD DVD...

Funny they always say it wont work but it usually turns out to work just fine.

# you calling them out or what? — Guest 2007-03-27 07:37

Next wave of Blu-ray players threaten universal compatibility. What now, Sony?

Of all you things you all care to write about. Blu-ray players play only blu-ray discs. Wtf does pip have to do with universal compatibilty. The current players will still play the movies, so really I have no idea what this blog is trying to do.

# correction — Guest 2007-03-27 08:31

Sorry, I checked and HD-DVD are releasing a s*itload of movies april through july.

Blu ray releases a lot of crap movies to make a higher number to boast about, when only a handful are worth $30+.

Looks like nearly 30,000 people won't be able to use their blu ray players the paid $1,000 for anymore.

# who — Guest 2007-03-27 11:22

wrote this garbage

# YES — xche78x 2007-03-29 00:15

dont worry ps3 is NOT affected by this.

its firmware can easily be updated to fit the standard whatever it is going to be.

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