Samsung has announced its BD-UP5500 Blu-ray/HD DVD combo player at a press conference held at CES 2008 in Las Vegas.
The Samsung dual format BD-UP5500 supports both the Blu-ray and HD DVD formats. Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, and DTS-HD soundtracks playback are supported as well. Other features include standard DVDs to full-on 1080p upconversion and out-of-the-box Blu-ray profile 1.1 support (which allows for picture-in-picture commentaries on newer Blu-ray discs), an Ethernet port new firmware downloads and accessing online content, and HQV processing for enhancing HD and SD video.
The samsung BD-UP5500 Duo HD player will be available in the second-half of 2008 for about $599.
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Hey, nice article on the bluray player… it is amazing what simply the color of a laser can do to enhance the definition and overall quality! This one is expecially good, becuause it specs would allow it to be in the front line of the technology for a longer time than the other ones. Peace, Ray