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Samsung Takes Lid Off New Blu-ray Disc Players

By , About.com Guide   April 4, 2009

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First displayed at CES 2009, Samsung has now released more details and pricing for its new line of Blu-ray Disc players. All of Samsung's three new players are Profile 2.0 (BD-Live) capable, on-board decoding and bitstream output for Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio, and two USB 2.0 connections. However, there are differences between the models. First off, the BD-P4600 is either table or wall-mountable, while the BD-P3600 features both HDMI and 7.1 channel analog audio outputs, and the entry-level BD-P1600 requires additional memory for access to BD-Live functions.

The BD-P4600 is priced at $499 and will be available later this month (April 2009 - Price comparisons coming soon).

The BD-P3600 and BD-P1600 priced at $399 and $299 respectively, should be available now.

For more details on Samsung's new Blu-ray Disc player line-up, check out the press release from Samsung posted by Business Wire. Photos (c) Robert Silva - Licensed to About.com

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Samsung's New Blu-ray/Home Theater-in-a-Box Systems (High Def Digest).

Samsung Gives Details on 2009 Plasma and LCD TV Line-up (TWICE).

Comments

April 7, 2009 at 11:40 am
(1) mr love :

i am converting from a blue ray player ot a D-vhs i need a converter that will convert hdmi to l-link firewire 1394 or at least componet to l-link 1394 around the $9,000 dollar range pesae help me find this thank you

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Response from Home Theater:

If you are attempting to copy Blu-ray to D-VHS that may not be possible due to the Blu-ray HDCP Copy Protection codes that are transfered via HDMI.

However, although there no HDMI to Firewire converters accessible for the consumer market, there are a few component video to firewire converters – here is one that you might check out:

http://www.hdtvsupply.com/cotoieco.html

However, once again, if your goal is to copy Blu-ray Discs to D-VHS, copy-protection will probably not enable you do this.

Here is a link to an explanation why there are no HDMI to Firewire converters:

http://www.hdtvsupply.com/hd.html

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