Sony has announced its first consumer Blu-ray player for Europe. The BDP-S1E, available this summer, will provide ldquo;the ultimate cinema experience for HD enthusiasts, rdquo; according to Hodaka Irikuchi, business manager for Sony rsquo;s home European viewers to see films at the same speed as those in the US. A side effect of authoring DVDs for the European market, using the 50Hz PAL TV standard, is that they run four percent faster than the 60Hz NTSC versions used in US; one result is that the pitch of actors rsquo; voices go up a notch.
provides eight channel audio output, HDMI and Dolby Digital Plus.
consumers can perceive twice the range of colours compared to sRGB colour. The player can also play back AVC-HD content from camcorders, but not Super Audio from Toshiba rsquo;s consumer HD DVD players, which will have a six month lead in Europe by the time Sony launches its model.
picture-in-picture support, unlike some older models on sale in Japan and disc recorder market in Japan, leaving rival format HD-DVD with almost nothing. Like this story?
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