Sony moves back Blu-ray content for Samsung

Oh, Blu-ray and HD DVD -- you always got to be one-upping each another? Toshiba delayed launching their first volley of HD DVD players until there was some content to play on the things, but today Sony Pictures Home Entertainment confirmed the opposite. They're postponing launching their content until Samsung's belated BD-P1000 first hits stores in late June, so as to "better coincide with the first commercially available Blu-ray-compatible hardware." Gee, this sounds so much like Toshiba's delay to "synchronize the launch of our players with HD DVD title releases" that we're starting to think the thing these two camps are best at synchronizing is their pattern of delays to be tit for tat. So to those hoping to snag some Blu-ray titles for staring at listlessly while their players are being manufactured and shipped from Korea will have to find other, less capacious data mediums into which they'll cast their gaze.

[delerious @ May 4th 2006 10:55AM]

WOOOO! I'll be working full time by then! Blu-Ray + 1080i set = ultimate pwnage.

[Ryan @ May 4th 2006 11:08AM]

They announce all this stuff like anyone really cares anyway.

[Travis @ May 4th 2006 11:26AM]

Why not get Sony's SXRD tv to watch the new fangled Blu-Ray discs on and play PS3 on? The TV's look great but for some odd reason they don't accept 1080p signal. It is great that they are going to introduce the world to true HD movies and gaming but their top of the line TV's that cost a pretty penny don't support it.

I hope someone that can make good business decisions buys Sony when they flop on next gen DVD and game console. Enough is enough.

[Jason @ May 4th 2006 11:55AM]

The new SXRD LCOS from Sony is explicitly advertised as supporting 1080p so explain what it does not do with 1080p that it's supposed to?

I have a buddy who bought the 50" Sony LCOS and it looks amazing with 1080i from Comcast HD.

[Jon @ May 4th 2006 12:40PM]

It supports 1080p alright but only in the form of upconverting a 1080i or 720p signal. This should be no surprise to anyone as this is what many TV's do. They support many resolutions but upconvert or down convert said images to their native format.

So indeed there is not a single Sony Television on the market that take a 1080p input signal and display it. They only upconvert to acheive 1080p output. So again I say no TV on the market yet can take 1080p native input. But yes there are several TV's that can achieve 1080p via upconversion.

[Michael Lomker @ May 4th 2006 12:40PM]

Jason, that particular set only accepts 1080i input but it converts it to 1080P when it displays it. Sets that actually accept 1080P input are in the following generation.

I have an E50A10, probably the same set as your friend and it is a really good value.

[Jon @ May 4th 2006 12:51PM]

This is indeed why Sony touting 1080p as "True High Def" is absolutely rediculous. By that defenition even their entire Television Product line would not be "True High Def"

Here's a good read titled: The Fact and Fiction of 1080p that lays it all out for ya.
http://editorials.teamxbox.com/xbox/1544/The-Facts-and-Fiction-of-1080p/p1/

[Jason @ May 4th 2006 12:53PM]

Thanks for the comments, I wasn't aware that the "1080p" sets on the market today simply up-convert the signal.

My buddy bought the KDS-R50XBR1, great looking TV. It's more expensive than a comparable DLP but has a better picture and should hold up better due to no moving parts (like all current DLPs have).

[smudley @ May 4th 2006 1:08PM]

this might be double post so sorry kidz... anyway while were on the subject has anyone seen the SXRD tethered to a pc for gaming? i plan on buying in the fall and any info would help...

[Ignatz @ May 4th 2006 1:33PM]

Interesting article you linked to, Jon, but the author undercuts his own credibility by writing things like "Interlaced scanning was invented back in the 1920s as a way to broadcast TV signals within a narrow bandwidth."

[Burt Reynolds @ May 4th 2006 4:15PM]

Sony has a projector out - the Sony VPL-VW100 that does true 1080p. They're also releasing new sets this September that are true 1080p (Samsung is doing the same, based on the same LCD panels from their joint factory).

[Shoeman @ May 5th 2006 5:25PM]

A number of LCDs (Sceptre, Westinghouse, EyeFi), and a few VERY EXPENSIVE Plasmas already accept 1080P input. I regularly use my Sceptre X42 (42") to enjoy my PC desktop at 1920x1080, and up-convert video files with ffdshow etc. running in the background to achieve incredible scaling and post-processing.