Gadget blogs Engadget and Gizmodo are covering the first round of HD video players being announced at CES. Sony has announced their first Blu-ray player, with 50GB of storage capacity. Pioneer’s Blu-ray player will be coming in May.
On the competing HD DVD side, during Bill Gates’ keynote, Microsoft announced its Xbox 360 will also be able to play HD movies through an external HD DVD add-on. And Toshiba’s HD DVD players have been announced to ship in March. Outside of the major HD disc formats, KiSS Technologies has a networked DVD player that is capable of high definition playback using video encoding formats including MPEG-4, DiVX HD and WMV HD.
Reuters journalist Sue Zeidler reports on the battle for control of next-generation DVDs and the resulting pricing strategies of the product manufacturers.
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