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Sony, the undisputed boss of electronics, has emerged with a step-up machine called S150. SONY BDPS550 has an extra gigabyte of memory to ensure that a few brilliant features of Blu-Ray, not normally available, can also be used.

Navigation

It gets kick started through the Emmy winner XCross Media Bar Interface. The horizontal directions on the screen make the task easy for you. Internet connection is anyway high profile with Bravia Sync. You get all the features in a nutshell to download, store and play movies of your choice.

Aesthetics

You have a true system, both in audio and video capacity. Smart upconverters ensure that every compatible gadget gets changed to 1080p. True Dolby stereo and Digital system makes up a good scene. You feel as if you are in a theater with the Bonus View experience. The start-up is quick.

Technical aspect

The disc player is supported with BD-Live support guaranteeing good firmware updates. So you need not bother about Homebrew even a bit. It has often been an Achilles hell with Sony. 24 frames per second theory is followed here too like many latest gadgets. The bit rates speed is higher and so the video graphics are not compressed. This gives great visual delight. What say you?

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Now Samsung's Blu-Ray Disc Player, BD-P1600 1080p allows you to enjoy watching movies on-demand offered by Netflix. You can also enjoy instantly listening to your favorite Pandora music through broadband connection. The Blu-ray Disc Player offers you DTD-HDMA technologies, Dolby TruHD and BD-Live support. You get superb quality on Pandora and Netflix streaming and Blu-ray movies. The Samsung player is Profile 2.0 compliant and offers operational speed, speedy load times, DTS-HD Master Audio and Dolby TrueHD, Wi-Fi compatible with USB dongle. The Blu-ray Disk Player is designed by a flip-down panel. The Samsung BD-P1600 can be a standalone Blu-ray player with excellent mix of features.

In 2008, Samsung was the first to manufacture standalone Blu-ray player. Now, the Samsung BD-P1600 comes with the important features of Blu-ray players and includes onboard decoding for DTS-HD Master Audio and Dolby TrueHD as well s Profile 2.0 compatibility. Compared to the basic blu-ray player model, BD-P1600 is built on advanced features with improved operational speed. Netflix and Pandora streaming as well as Wi-Fi functionality are its important features. USB dong is sold separately.

The Samsung's Blu-ray player features a seamless and sleek front panel design. You have to open and close the Samsung's tray by ejecting a disc with the help of a remote control. As the buttons like power and close/open are kept under the panel, you have to make any adjustments by hand.

The Samsung's new model BD-P1600 bears a nice and sleek look. Some of the attractive specifications of this player are Netflix-Ready features, Playback Formats, H.264, MPEG2 and VC-1, Plaback Media, CD/DVD/BD, A/V Quality with DTS Decoder, Dolby Digital Plus Decoder, Dolby True HD Decoder and DTS HD Decoder, Video A/V Quality with DVD Upconversion (maximum 1080p), functional features like PiP, Secondary audio support and BD profile 2.0. In all, the BD-P 1600 offers you an excellent value for your money with its special features and performance.

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If you want to watch Blu-Ray on PC; Intervideo and NTI are on their way releasing their players for PC's. Without Blu-Ray Disc players, you can not play and BD disk, not to forget that you'd need to have the drive also.

So, we should just sit down and wait a little more :-)

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