A Consuming Experience
Sony BDP-S1E Blu-ray player
- technical specifications
Here (with thanks to Immediate Future, all pictures copyright Sony) are the detailed specifications of the first Sony Blu ray player to be launched in Europe, in March 2007 - the Sony BDP-S1E.
The narrative summary and other info after the table are from A Consuming Experience.
The
DVD format is far from dead, but disc players for next generation
high-definition high capacity discs are starting to take off. Earlier
this week, Sony
launched launched the first European Blu-ray
disc player, the Sony BDP-S1E. Which, appropriately, has a blue panel
at the front.
"Setting
new standards in high definition audiovisual performance and ease of
use .. it looks pretty good too!.. The BDP-S1E represents one of Sony's
most powerful, intelligent and stylish consumer equipment models ever
developed."
Sony describes the new player as "a super
heavyweight, with the looks of a super model and truly simple and
intuitive operation for
the serious AV enthusiasts. Such is our
confidence in the Blu-ray format; we plan to announce a larger family
of products in the coming months".
Here's a slightly different pic:
Below are the official Sony summary
specs.Specifications
- 1920 x 1080p (progressive) High Definition video for Blu-ray Disc titles
- A 1080p video upscaling facility, which takes your old movies out of the DVD-Video domain and into near full HD resolution
- 24p True Cinema, meaning viewers can watch films at the authentic speed and pitch as the director intended for the first time
- Up to 8 channels of uncompressed linear PCM digital audio output via HDMI as well as Dolby Digital Plus
- Highest audio performance is assured through separate audio circuitary, the use of finely tuned high-performance audio components, a rigid beam chassis construction, drive brackets and off-centre insulator feet
- The adoption of x.v.Colour (Sony's implementation of the xvYCC video signal standard) giving viewers twice the colour or sRGB when playing back discs recorded with AVC-HD camcorders
Design specifications
- Slimline aluminium and genuine specially coated glass finished exterior
- No confusing multiple menu navigation as synchronisation of the BDP-S1E player alongside Sony BRAVIA TVs, HiFi systems and receivers is as simple as pressing one button
- The player boasts compatibility with a diverse number of high quality video codecs including MPEG2, MPEG4-AVC and VC1
- HDMI interfaces for broadcast level of device interoperability and an analogue component output for 1080i
- Supports BD-ROM, AVC-HD, CD and DVD playback, as well as MP3 files and JPEG images.
It will be interesting to see the outcome of the Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD format wars. Like many other technology fans, I wish that the two opposing camps had managed to reach agreement on a common format. At the moment the jury's still out, but I hope for the sake of the industry and consumers that it won't take too long for one or other to win out definitively.
There's been a lot of publicity about LG's Super Multi Blue BH100 Player, launched in January 2007, which is compatible with Blu-ray Disc, DVD, CD read/write and HD DVD-ROM (read) (and similarly their GGW-H10N drive for computers will support both Blu ray and HD DVD). I suspect that until a single format for high definition video and data storage is settled, it's the canny manufacturers of dual format hybrid players like LG who will be the real winners.
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