{"id":548382,"date":"2006-03-29T18:02:15","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T18:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548382-blu-ray-dvd-player-launch-planned-for-september.html"},"modified":"2006-03-29T18:02:15","modified_gmt":"2006-03-29T18:02:15","slug":"blu-ray-dvd-player-launch-planned-for-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548382-blu-ray-dvd-player-launch-planned-for-september.html","title":{"rendered":"Blu-ray DVD player launch planned for September"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the new player, the company "proves its commitment to providing the best high definition entertainment experience for the home," Matsushita Electric Industrial’s US subsidiary said in a statement. <\/font><\/p>\n

The price for the DMP-BD10 player has not yet been fixed but will be below $1,500, the company said. <\/font><\/p>\n

Supporters of the Blu-ray format, led by Matsushita and Sony, are waging a fierce battle against a rival HD DVD format pushed by Toshiba and NEC, with the two sides vying to set the common standard. <\/font><\/p>\n

Matsushita’s newly appointed president Fomio Otsubo last month expressed confidence that the company and its partners would win the battle. <\/font><\/p>\n

The Blu-ray disc technology, which will be used in the Sony PlayStation 3, is expected to have a greater storage capacity than HD DVD but also to be more expensive to make, at least in the short-term. <\/font><\/p>\n

The Hollywood studios have pushed the Sony and Toshiba camps to settle their differences and develop a single format in an effort to avoid a replay of the VHS-Betamax war between two types of video cassette tapes in the late 1970s. <\/font><\/p>\n

The two sides failed, however, to reach a deal and are now pushing ahead with the separate technologies billed as offering cinematic quality images and opening up new possibilities of interactive entertainment. <\/font><\/p>\n

Last week Toshiba said it might have to delay the launch its HD DVD players in the US by about a month to April to coincide with the launch of movies for the player. <\/font><\/p>\n

The Japanese daily Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported last week Toshiba will start selling its HD DVD player in Japan later this month. <\/font><\/p>\n

Sony has been selling an earlier version of the Blu-ray Disc recorder\/player since April 2003 but so far no movies are available in the format. <\/font><\/p>\n

Sony Pictures said last month it hopes to start selling the first wave of Blu-ray disc titles in May. <\/font><\/p>\n

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The Panasonic brand maker said today it will start selling its first Blu-ray high-definition DVD player in North America in September as electronics makers prepare to go to battle over two rival formats. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}