The first thing you'll notice about the Sony Internet TV Blu-ray Disc Player is that it's white.
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Joining the currently available BDX2700 and BDX2500 models, the BDX3000 is the company's first 3D-capable Blu-ray Disc player.
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The compact disc player, high-definition television and Blu-ray each debuted at past conventions.
It also incorporates an eight-megabyte memory card and a digital video-disc player.
Prices on next-gen optical HD players continue to plummet today with Sony's announced price drop on their new BDP-S300 Blu-ray Disc player.
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When a Blu-ray Disc player is connected to a Pioneer KURO display, KURO Link provides a tailored picture setting between the TV and Blu-ray player.
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The NSZ-GP9 Blu-ray Disc player with Google TV will be available in October initially in the United States, followed by Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Netherlands.
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LG's BX580 Network Blu-ray Disc Player adds 3D playback capabilities in addition to 2D Blu-ray discs and DVD playback so consumers can use one machine to watch their favorite 3D and 2D content.
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Through "Video on Demand powered by Qriocity" customers can instantly rent from a growing library of thousands of Hollywood blockbuster movies across Sony's 2010 models of network-enabled BRAVIA TV, Blu-ray Disc player and Blu-ray Disc Home Theater system.
It will then self-destruct not in flames, its inventors hasten to add, but because contact with the air eventually renders its surface opaque, making it impossible for the laser in a disc player to read the data beneath.
The Kyoto, Japan, company manufactured 3-D goggles and a companion disc player that could be connected to the Family Computer, called the Nintendo Entertainment System in the U.S. The project flopped and never made its way outside Japan.
LG's BX580 3D-capable Network Blu-ray Disc player has built-in Wi-Fi capability allowing consumers to access online content through a connection to their home network, without the need for a direct Ethernet connection, offering greater flexibility during setup by eliminating wires.
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By pairing LG's new top-of-the-line "Infinia" LED HDTVs with its first-ever 3D-capable Network Blu-ray Disc player, consumers can now enjoy superior picture quality and the immersive 3D experience of their favorite sporting events and Hollywood mega-hits in the comfort of their home.
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BD3D-enabled households are defined as homes having a 3D TV connected to either a Blu-ray Disc 3D player or to a PlayStation 3, with the required glasses on hand in order to view content.
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It all started when Hasbro released the portable, disc-based VideoNow player, which used a proprietary format to play back grainy low-resolution monochrome video at a low frame rate.
And when the App syncs with the Blu-ray Disc through a connected player, users can "sling" select content from the Sony Tablet or iPad to the television screen to watch it in full HD, for a greater viewing experience.
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His system, called self-protecting digital content, places the security on the disc instead of in the player.
If the DVD player decides the disc is secure, it will decode it and play the movie.
In June, the company bought out the second-leading player in the disc-rental kiosk market, the NCR-owned Blockbuster Express kiosks (in which the store chain held an interest).
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At CES 2009, Pioneer's home entertainment group is introducing three new Blu-ray Disc players and one new upconverting DVD player.
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The new 4K Ultra HD Video Player is a hard-disc server that connects easily to Sony's 84-inch 4K LED TV (XBR-84X900) allowing consumers to view 4K resolution movies and short form 4K videos.
The player's software ships on a disc -- not a full-sized one, mind you, but the kind of miniature disc that simply won't play nice with my laptop's slot-loading optical drive.
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The Best Buy-owned CinemaNow is flashing a Disc to Digital beta page that offers downloads of a player for Windows or Mac PCs that not only allows access to one's UltraViolet library both online or offline, but also insert any DVD (no word on Blu-ray support yet) and convert it to an SD or HD UltraViolet copy.
So if you pop in a DVD "infected" with Protect DVD-Video, it can't be read by Windows Media Player, Media Center Edition, or any DirectShow-based software, thanks to a Universal Disc Format that tricks your machine into believing that the IFO file is zero bytes long.
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