Sony displays prototype "Sapphire" second-gen Blu-ray players

Unfortunately they were only given a passing mention during Sony's CES press conference earlier, but a quick look at the fact sheet revealed a few additional details about these two second generation Blu-ray players with launch and price TBA. Named Sapphire 1 and 2, we don't know what makes them different from each other, but the only features listed are 1080p24 output, and support for x.v.Color, Sony's term for the xvYCC expanded color space. Of course, we're most interested in seeing if they can load a Blu-ray movie as fast as the PlayStation 3, but that remains to be seen. Impress Watch got a look at the two players, but it will likely be a while before we find out more about what the followups to Sony's BDP-S1 will be capable of.

[Via Impress]

[Taylor @ Jan 8th 2007 8:02AM]

OMG SEXY!!!!

[ChronoZaga @ Jan 8th 2007 9:34AM]

"Sapphire"

...and so the "blu" puns begin. This may get ugly.

[Shmoe @ Jan 8th 2007 9:42AM]

I prefer the Beta- Blunder-Ray puns.