CES 2006 News & Announcements

xbdestroya said:
PS: Seis did you find out about Cell going into Toshiba's sets? Nice pics by the way!
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No, I asked but couldn't get any info. I didn't see any Cell demos at the show. I did watch the Toshiba SED display demonstration. It looks pretty nice. But it was only a 43" set and you had to watch it in a controlled "theater" that was totally dark with a straight on angle. The demo video they had running at a high framerate like 60fps so of course it looked way more impressive than a 24fps average movie or TV show.
 
Thanks for the info Seismologist, much appreciated. :)

Going back to Blu-ray HD-DVD, this article here states that as of a couple of days ago the BDA finalized the BLu-ray specifications. Now, does that imply that AACS and/or BD-J has been finalized? Or are they talking about something else here?
 
Nicked said:
http://www.gameshout.com/news/012006/article2350.htm

The above article has a shitty title/intro (title infers PS3 BD player more expensive than most, intro less expensive). But the gist of it is that Sony has said that the PS3 will cost 3-5x less than other Blu-ray players.

That puts it in the $300-400 range.
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I highly doubt any Sony rep made any comments, indirect or otherwise, about PS3 pricing, and note the lack of a direct quote at that. Methinks the reporter is simply making assumptions, or picked something up wrong.
 
Titanio said:
I highly doubt any Sony rep made any comments, indirect or otherwise, about PS3 pricing, and note the lack of a direct quote at that. Methinks the reporter is simply making assumptions, or picked something up wrong.
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Hmm, well I gathered it wasn't an official comment, but exhibitors mention stuff in passing all the time.

Still, the price is right. Expected, I mean.
 
Some impressions of home networking at Sony's booth (PSP, PS3?)

This sounds pretty interesting..

mrklaw on GAF posted this:

Hands down the best stand I saw at CES was Sony's. And in particular one pod showing their home network stuff.

They had a Set top box/HDD recorder with a DNLA compliant network server built in. Next to it they had a Vaio, also running a media server. And they had an LCD TV as a media player.

But they also had a PSP with some early new software which was being used as a media renderer. You could access both media servers and see all their content - combined into one list. They only had video working, but you could click on a video and it would start playing on the PSP. That was really good to see.

Then the guy on the stand asked me to flick the analog nub up. When I did this, the PSP 'threw' the video onto the TV. The TV immediately started playing back the video from where I'd left off. The PSP was then my remote control for play/pause etc. Flicking down on the nub pulled the video back down to my PSP.

It really was amazing to experience, and made a change from the other 'simple' server/client models going around.

I also asked the guy there if the PS3 would be DLNA compliant and he said yes. Of course, thats no confirmation, but Sony seem to be pushing hard this open home networking so I'm confident the PS3 will be a DLNA/UPnP media renderer.

That means it won't need MCE, just a UPnP server. Lots of software out there to do that, including being preloaded on NAS devices
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http://www.ga-forum.com/showthread.php?t=79883

I'm not too au fait with DLNA, but basically I believe it's intended to provide seamless interoperability of different devices, and sharing of media between them. So, for example, here you had two DLNA compliant media servers, which the PSP was able to access. If PS3 were DLNA compliant, it could do the same. There are DLNA compliant PCs out there, but with a HDD-recorder or the like, you wouldn't need one, to stream media from it to your PS3 for example. Or your PS3 could be a server too (sharing media from your removeable media, or I guess preferably, your hard disk). Lots of very interesting possibilities if it is DLNA compliant, particularly given its wealth of I/O options (DLNA bluetooth devices, like perhaps your cellphone, could also take part perhaps etc. etc.)
 
That sounds nice -- PSP as a remote seemed like such an obvious (and easy) implementation.

DLNA sounds a bit nicer than needing a dedicated MCE box (although there are still compelling reasons to use MCE... like as a DVR). From what I gather, a simple DLNA NAS or DLNA software on your PC can work the same (being able to browse all the files from the PSP and then pick one to show on the TV through the PS3 or a DLNA TV). I'm glad Sony is starting to realize that they need pick their battles wisely instead of going with proprietary everything (supporting MP3 on their newer walkmans, opening up Memstick a bit, DLNA, etc).
 
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RobertR1 said:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28855

If this is true, I don't care who wins the "HD War."
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I hope so, but I take it with a grain of salt.
First, TheInquirer is not exactly a trusted site...
Second, Samsung is releasing Blu-ray players on their own and are on the BDA board of directors.
Third, this is the same site that has an article with the headline "Samsung taunts HD DVD camp".

Tried Google news, but the only place this has been reported is TheInquirer.

I know some company showed of a prototype combo drive but it had problems...
 
Nicked said:
I hope so, but I take it with a grain of salt.
First, TheInquirer is not exactly a trusted site...
Second, Samsung is releasing Blu-ray players on their own and are on the BDA board of directors.
Third, this is the same site that has an article with the headline "Samsung taunts HD DVD camp".

Tried Google news, but the only place this has been reported is TheInquirer.

I know some company showed of a prototype combo drive but it had problems...
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It was mentioned samsung might do a combo (HDDVD Blu-ray) drive months ago. Without a time-frame, cost, model number or even a mockup the inquirer article is hardly even news.
 
I've no doubt there'll be players, since there is a combo board coming from Broadcom I think. But regarding Samsung specifically, I'd read elsewhere that they refused to comment at all on previously suggested plans for a combo player at CES, and instead just pushed the Blu-ray drive.

mckmas8808 said:
I want to read more about the Sony DLNA software/device. I can't find any info on it though.
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It's not a Sony specific thing, it's a standard involving many many companies. The official site is: http://www.dlna.org/home
 
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=6866449&&#post6866449


So basically, all this talk about HDDVD coming out before Bluray and all that, and all we have from Toshiba is a mock-up player, while Bluray is just going on doing their thing, with proper hardware and demos shown, running fine...

http://www.blu-ray.com/drives/

http://www.blu-ray.com/recorders/

http://www.blu-ray.com/players/

And proper Media too!! http://www.blu-ray.com/media/

Is it me or does Bluray look much more "ready" than HDDVD (media and hardware) at present time, whether it's supposed to launch after HDDVD or not?
 
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