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The Man Room has a short but interesting review of Samsung’s new BD-P1000 Blu-ray player and a comparison to the Toshiba HD-AI HD-DVD player.

The BD-P1000 supports 1080p/1080i/720p and up-converts DVDs to 1080p/1080i/720p. It decodes MPEG2, VC-1, H.264, HD JPEG video and Dolby Digital, Dolby® Digital Plus, DTS®, and MP3 audio. It plays the following disc formats: BD-RE, BD-R, BD-ROM, DVD ROM, DVD RAM, DVD-R, -RW, +R, +RW, CD ROM, CD-R, and -RW.

Video outputs include Composite, S-Video, Y,Pb,Pr Component (480i / 480P / 720P / 1080i / 1080p), and HDMI (480i / 480P / 720P / 1080i / 1080P). Audio out is 2.0 and 5.1, coaxial and optical digital.

It also includes useful side-features such as accepting memory sticks, playing video clips, photo slideshows, and mp3 audio,

The new format(s) are intriguing, but while DVD and TV formats continue to shake out over the next several months, high def DVD players like these are bound to get better better, more robust, and of course much less expensive.

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