Samsung Electronics on Monday launched two new Blu-ray disc players -- a fourth generation player (BD-P1500) and second-generation home theater (HT-BD2F). The next-generation Blu-ray disc format offers massive data storage capacity, high-definition video and audio quality, and is now the most likely successor to the DVD format.
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Models show Samsung Electronics¡¯ Blu-ray products at the company¡¯s Blu-ray strategy seminar at its headquarters in Seoul on Sunday. The electronics giant vowed to roll up its sleeves to dominate the global next-generation optical device market. /Yonhap
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The fourth-generation player can play the original and full screen high-definition versions of CD, DVD, and Blu-ray discs, and sports various functions. The Bonus View function, for instance, provides information on actors and actresses appearing in a movie as it is played, and with the Bookmark function, a user can easily jump to the scene s/he likes.
The company decided to use a ¡°5.1-channel¡± speaker set in its second-generation Blu-ray home theater, scheduled to be launched in May. The 5.1 channel speaker set, comprised of one subwoofer and four surrounding speakers, is popularly used in home entertainment systems, enabling the company to lower the price from the previous model, from W1.69 million to W1.29 million (US1$ = W997).
Jun Dong-soo, executive vice president of Samsung¡¯s Digital AV Division, was quoted in a press release as saying the company plans to promote the Blu-ray market to become ¡°a global leader in the next-generation digital audio and video player and storage market.¡±
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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