Samsung Gives 3D TV a Push

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Samsung on Wednesday announced a portable Blu-ray disc player by means of 3D for the United States market.

This was one of a slew of Blu-ray announcements so as to built-in new crop and an long-drawn-out assortment of 3D Blu-ray content.

Samsung too announced a row of 3D-capable high-definition TV,box be dressed in (HDTVs) so as to built-in a extremely competitively sensibly 50-inch TV set pending in at beneath US$1,100.

The Blu-ray of Happiness

Samsung list a world's primary by means of its BD-C8000 portable Blu-ray player. It can engage in recreation filled 1080p HD video, enable 3D playback at what time linked to a 3D-capable TV set and second-hand by means of 3D glasses, and has a 10.1-inch screen.

The BD-C8000 has built-in WiFi and funding can correct of entry a records happy and truthfully from side to side Samsung Apps and HDMI 1.4a hold up . It rapidly inquisitiveness frequently of battery life.

Pricing stands at concerning $500.

"That"s a attractive high-quality cost for a portable 3D Blu-ray player," Rob Enderle, main analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld.

Portable Blu-ray players are not new; Panasonic has had one out for concerning one and a semi years, and RCA came out by means of one a number of occasion later, Enderle pointed out. However, contain didn't contain 3D and "never sold chiefly well," he said.

Samsung did not react to requests for comment by press time.

Pros and Cons of Portable Blu-ray Players

Would anybody desire a portable Blu-ray player? And isn't the arrangement in hazard since of the growing popularity of in,within video?

"I believe the portable Blu-ray marketplace is attractive incomplete since the downloadable digital broken marketplace has full-grown so quickly," Carl Howe, director of anywhere customer investigate at the Yankee Group, told TechNewsWorld. "People are grabbing completely iPhone or iPad and playing high-definition movies on persons devices."

Other manufacturers, genuine as Archos, too present portable devices so as to engage in recreation streaming HD video, Howe added.

"Does Samsung require to create a portable Blu-ray player?" Howe asked. "The Blu-ray marketplace is a rough one to penetrate, and at what time you add a portable aspect, so as to may create the niche additional marketable, but it's motionless a niche," he pointed out.

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"Sony is charitable at one more skill by now to put back Blu-ray," Enderle said. "Blu-ray came too late and was too luxurious to ramp in a opportune fashion, and it's now existence form eclipsed by in,within content."

Blu-ray and 3D: Joined at the Pixel

"If 3D is leaving to be successful, it determination be on Blu-ray, since that's the merely arrangement so as to extra you filled 3D resolution for every eye," supposed Pietro Macchiarella, a investigate analyst at Parks Associates. "Every additional resolution extra you semi the 1080p resolution for every eye."

Further, Blu-ray isn't so bad off, Macchiarella indicated.

"From the distribution and logistical tip of view, a Blu-ray disk is compatible by means of together 3D and 2D, so it has a built-in market," Macchiarella said. "If you don't contain a 3D player, you can motionless watch the Blu-ray disk on a legacy 2D player."

Samsung's pushing Blu-ray skill hard. It determination present the 3D Blu-ray account of the DreamWorks animated movie "How to Train Your Dragon" exclusively by means of its 3D hors d'oeuvre kit petroleum fall. Later petroleum year, it determination too exclusively present DreamWorks' "Shrek" film series in 3D Blu-ray for the primary time.

Further, Samsung determination present two Imax (Nasdaq: IMAX) productions, "Into the Deep" and "Galapagos," and Giant Screen Films' "Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs" in 3D afterward petroleum year.

3D TV Prices to Fall

On Wednesday, Samsung too proof new 3D LED and plasma TV,box sets.

The LED set is the UN65C8000. This has a 65-inch screen, and Samsung list it's the main filled HD 3D LED TV set obtainable for the home. It has Samsung's inappropriately Precision Dimming technology, is WiFi prepared and supports Skype from side to side Samsung Apps. Owners can correct of entry additional apps, genuine as Hulu Plus and ESPN Next Level, from side to side Samsung Apps.

The UN65C8000 is sensibly at concerning $6,000 and determination be obtainable petroleum month.

Three 3D plasma HDTVs now too unveiled. One, the PN50C490, has a 50-inch monitor and has Clear Image Panel skill as healthy as 600 Hz Subfield Motion technology.

The PN50C490 is sensibly at now beneath $1,100 and determination be obtainable petroleum month.

"3D carries a big premium, and $1,100 is a extremely nice cost for a 3D-capable TV set," Enderle said.

Samsung's low asking cost hints of falling management for additional 3D-capable TV sets.

"By the fourth-quarter marketplace ramp, it's probable we'll see cost cuts for 3D-capable TVs," Enderle said. "Currently, they're too luxurious for the market."

Over time, the management of 3D TV be dressed in determination fall, Parks Associates' Macchiarella predicted. That determination partly be due to completely widespread acceptance in the center of customers and the consequent economies of level in production.

"We believe 3D determination be a normal characteristic of 80 proportion of TV be dressed in by 2014," Parks' Macchiarella said. "It determination be present but you won't necessarily contain to watch each agenda in 3D."

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