http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/ Engadget Comments for Sony's BDP-S1, their first Blu-ray player http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/Jan 5th 2006 12:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/Jan 5th 2006 12:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/Jan 5th 2006 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/Jan 5th 2006 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/


This sony player was most likely targeted at the least $1000]]>Jan 5th 2006 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/
Do most people in this country want an ugly old clunky machine for 100x more than a standard DVD player of the same kind,

I mean this new generation is sorta' a joke (for now)



Peter--help me buy a blu-ray player; go to my google ads.FREE MUSIC.]]>Jan 5th 2006 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/Jan 5th 2006 1:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/Jan 5th 2006 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/Jan 5th 2006 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/Jan 5th 2006 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/Jan 5th 2006 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/Jan 5th 2006 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/Jan 5th 2006 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/


When someone builds 90% of this thing into a single $15 chip, it'll be small and cheap. It takes time and millions of dollars of engineering, but it'll happen.]]>Jan 5th 2006 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/
Kind of like a sin tax on cigarettes.



I just can't wait to get one of these things for my computer. Backing up a hard drive will be a snap.]]>Jan 5th 2006 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/
earlier Engadget post) it is coming out in the Summer, I guess that means no PS3 release in Spring.]]>Jan 5th 2006 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/


Give it 2 years and these things will be so small you can choke on them.



- Kiteless]]>Jan 5th 2006 2:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/Jan 5th 2006 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/Jan 5th 2006 3:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/


I simply don't understand why people are ragging on this being big. My Denon DVD player is only a bit smaller, and it's brand spankin' new (and toasts the quality of my older tiny Toshiba). My D-VHS decks are actually larger than this. And then there's my amplifier. Often larger components are higher quality and better built... but all we get here is "OMG TEH B1G!@#!@" Sheesh.



Does nobody understand technological progression. This is new. And either it or HD-DVD will indeed replace DVD... Because eventually we will all have HDTVs, and there is a big difference between SD and HD TV -- indeed the difference is a bigger leap in resolution than that of VHS to DVD.



So can we get an intelligent comment here? How about some pricing info? More importantly, what connectors will it use? HDMI for sure, but component? And can this one record?



-Pie]]>Jan 5th 2006 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/


Apparently you don't remember the DVP-S7000, their first DVD player, and how it compared to the PlayStation 2. I don't think there's anything optimistic about the form factor of the PS3.



The BDP-S1 is, no doubt, a high-end BD player, just like the DVP-S7000 was a high-end DVD player. It was made entirely of metal, it had all sorts of vibration dampening stuff, a motorized front panel mechanism, etc. The PS2 had none of that stuff, and was made of plastic. The same's gonna hold for the PS3, which is gonna be about as low-end of a BD player as you're gonna get. (Except that it'll hopefully do 1080p for movies, as all of the announced BD players so far do... but not so for HD-DVD.)



The BDP-S1 looks to be about the same size as the DVP-S7000 was before it. BD and HD-DVD players will get smaller as time goes on, but there's no doubt they *could* be smaller now. The early adopter crowd likes a certain amount of heft... not as an end in and of itself, but because it implies a certain level of build quality internally.]]>Jan 5th 2006 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/Jan 5th 2006 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/Jan 5th 2006 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/Jan 5th 2006 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/


Personally, I remember buying music on 8-track, then on LP, then on cassette, then on CD - all the same album. The factor with each of these was not that I needed the newest, biggest, best; it was that the new format offered something specific (typically portability or accessibility).



I don't see Blu-Ray OR HD-DVD offering anything "new", don't have 1080p on my High Definition TV, and as such will be waiting until the format is affordable or the players are as cheap and disposable as current DVD and VHS systems.]]>Jan 5th 2006 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/


So because YOU don't have it, that means it offers nothing new?



You imply that you do have an HDTV, just not one with 1080p. But you don't have a disc format that'll do 1080i either. You STILL think these formats offer nothing new?



What the heck does a new format have to do to impress you? 1920x1080 is approaching the full resolution that some film stocks are capable of (modern ones are often capable of more, but not always).



Some of you guys sound like Dana Carvey's grumpy old man character from SNL. "In my day, we didn't have no Blu-Ray, we watched black and white TV from three channels on a 5 inch oval screen and we LIKED it!"

]]>Jan 5th 2006 5:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/


I didn't get a DVD player until the PS2 came out, and didn't have a standalone one for several years. I suspect that it might be the same way for Blu-Ray and the PS3.]]>Jan 5th 2006 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/Jan 5th 2006 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/


You mean the same DVP-S7000 that came out *3* years *before* the PS2?]]>Jan 5th 2006 8:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/Jan 5th 2006 10:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/Jan 6th 2006 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/Jan 7th 2006 9:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/Jan 9th 2006 9:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/Jan 12th 2006 1:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/sonys-bdp-s1-their-first-blu-ray-player/Jan 14th 2006 4:20PM