New Bravo D3 player supporting 720p and 1080i
01-15-04, 06:52 AM
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New Bravo D3 player supporting 720p and 1080i
Ripped from IGN, the new Bravo D3 looks smooth. Should look good for my T2:EE disc and the new IMAX disc with HD:
New High Definition DVD Player Coming
Supports Windows Media 9 for high def playback.
January 14, 2004 - If you want your high definition DVD but can't wait for Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, your wish may very well be answered. V Inc. introduced a high definition DVD player at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that's ready to go this year and is backwards compatible with your existing library.
The Bravo D3 will fetch $350 when it ships in the second quarter of this year. Built on Microsoft's Windows Media Video 9 and Sigma Designs' EM8620L on-chip processor, the Bravo D3 offers 480p playback, which is what DVD players currently offer, plus 720p and 1080i formats.
The deck will also include support DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD, CD-R/RW playback and will be capable of playing MPEG2, MPEG4 and WMV9 in high definition. Audio support includes WMA9, WMA Pro, WMA lossless, Dolby Digital, MP3, MPEG-1/2 (layers 1, 2, and 3) and MPEG-4 AAC.
It will have pass through connectors for DTS audio and DVI video outputs. The component video output will only support 480p, but you will have DVI for 720p and 1080i. The REALmagic scaling and scan conversion chip from Sigma will offer programmable linear and non-linear scaling, a 5-plane video mixer, adaptive de-interlacing, adaptive flicker filtering and pixel-based alpha mixing, which will eliminate many video playback problems.
What this means right now is you can finally play back Terminator 2 Extreme Edition on your HDTV set and not just your computer monitor. Sites like BWMfilms.com, CinemaNow, IFilm, and Movielink support the WMV9 video, but the film studios have yet to make a vocal commitment.
If they do, it will be interesting to see the impact on Blu-Ray and HD-DVD. The Bravo D3 is still a standard DVD player, limited to 9.4GB of storage per side, compared to 50GB for a Blu-Ray disc, and 9.8 mbits/sec. bitrate vs the 36 mbits/sec. for Blu-Ray.
We've sent inquiries to all of the major studios but haven't heard back yet. If we get any news, we'll pass it on.
-- Andy Patrizio
New High Definition DVD Player Coming
Supports Windows Media 9 for high def playback.
January 14, 2004 - If you want your high definition DVD but can't wait for Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, your wish may very well be answered. V Inc. introduced a high definition DVD player at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that's ready to go this year and is backwards compatible with your existing library.
The Bravo D3 will fetch $350 when it ships in the second quarter of this year. Built on Microsoft's Windows Media Video 9 and Sigma Designs' EM8620L on-chip processor, the Bravo D3 offers 480p playback, which is what DVD players currently offer, plus 720p and 1080i formats.
The deck will also include support DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD, CD-R/RW playback and will be capable of playing MPEG2, MPEG4 and WMV9 in high definition. Audio support includes WMA9, WMA Pro, WMA lossless, Dolby Digital, MP3, MPEG-1/2 (layers 1, 2, and 3) and MPEG-4 AAC.
It will have pass through connectors for DTS audio and DVI video outputs. The component video output will only support 480p, but you will have DVI for 720p and 1080i. The REALmagic scaling and scan conversion chip from Sigma will offer programmable linear and non-linear scaling, a 5-plane video mixer, adaptive de-interlacing, adaptive flicker filtering and pixel-based alpha mixing, which will eliminate many video playback problems.
What this means right now is you can finally play back Terminator 2 Extreme Edition on your HDTV set and not just your computer monitor. Sites like BWMfilms.com, CinemaNow, IFilm, and Movielink support the WMV9 video, but the film studios have yet to make a vocal commitment.
If they do, it will be interesting to see the impact on Blu-Ray and HD-DVD. The Bravo D3 is still a standard DVD player, limited to 9.4GB of storage per side, compared to 50GB for a Blu-Ray disc, and 9.8 mbits/sec. bitrate vs the 36 mbits/sec. for Blu-Ray.
We've sent inquiries to all of the major studios but haven't heard back yet. If we get any news, we'll pass it on.
-- Andy Patrizio
