An Interest In:
Web News this Week
- March 29, 2024
- March 28, 2024
- March 27, 2024
- March 26, 2024
- March 25, 2024
- March 24, 2024
- March 23, 2024
Samsung Premium Blu-ray Player Does Ultra HD Sort Of
LAS VEGAS -- Now that Ultra High-Definition TVs -- which have 4x the number of pixels as 1080p sets -- are a real thing, the question remains: Does anything exist that can actually play the format? Samsung says yes, offering up a "premium" Blu-ray player capable of serving up Ultra HD video ... with a catch.
The catch is the video is actually upconverted from 1080p (or standard-def), not native 4K (the other term for Ultra HD). You can't really blame Samsung -- since there isn't yet a consumer disc format for Ultra HD, there wasn't really a way to build a player that outputs 4K natively, at least not one that would be guaranteed to still work in a year.
The player (model no. BD-F7500)…
Continue reading...
More About: blu-ray, CES, CES 2013, samsung, UHDTV, Ultra HD
Original Link: http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/Mashable/~3/IuoxxW8zAJc/
Mashable
Mashable is the top source for news in social and digital media, technology and web culture.More About this Source Visit Mashable