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CES 2008: Philips shows new BDP7200 Blu-ray player

7 January 2008 17:36 by James "Dela" Delahunty | 4 comments

Philips is showing off its latest Blu-ray Disc (BD) player, the BDP7200, at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show. It is Philips' first BonusView compliant BD player, optimizing the complete HD experience and allowing viewers to enjoy the latest movie applications and features. It supports Full HD 1080p images for the best of HD video quality and supports multi-channel audio decoding for crisp sound and features digital audio optical outputs.

Standard definition DVD titles can be upscaled by the player to 1080p. The BDP7200 supports Full HD images at the original 24fps rate via High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) and "Deep Color" support, capable of producing images with up to 1 billion colors. "Blu-ray Disc has rapidly become the format of choice for high-definition movies, music, games and more," said Andy Mintz, senior vice president, marketing management AM/VM, Philips Consumer Lifestyle North America.

Mintz added: "With a greater breadth of available hardware, more support from the Hollywood studios and more capacity for growth in the future, consumers are clearly weighing-in in favor of Blu. Our BDP7200 joins Philips' growing family of Blu-ray Disc products, delivering the best possible Full HD picture quality, full surround sound capabilities and more."

The feature list doesn't stop here either; the BDP7200 fully supports BD-Java for interactivity features of the Blu-ray format, Picture-in-Picture (PIP) support and features HDMI's Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) features to control an entire home entertainment system with a single remote.

The Philips BDP7200 will be available in April at a suggested retail price of $349.

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red2tango (Inactive) 8 January 2008 11:23
that players looks sexy.philips is a great company. [ + quote]
eatsushi (Senior Member) 8 January 2008 12:19
We might as well list all the new BluRay players that were announced or demoed at CES 2008: Panasonic DMP-BD50 BD Live 2.0 Internal decoding of Dolby True HD and DTS HD MA 7.1 Analog Outs MSRP TBA Street Date TBA http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/specs...s-new-dmp-bd50/ http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/C...ray_Player/1335 Samsung BDP-1500 Profile 1.1 Bitstream transmission of Dolby True HD and DTS HD MA thru HDMI 1.3 MSRP $399 Street Date June 2008 http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/samsu...0-combo-player/ http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/C...ray_Player/1336 Philips BDP-7200 Profile 1.1 1080p/24 and Deep Color support MSRP $349 Street Date April 2008 http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/hands...blu-ray-player/ http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/C...ray_Player/1338 Sharp BD-HP50U Profile 1.1 Bitstream transmission of Dolby True HD and DTS HD MA thru HDMI 1.3 MSRP $699 Street Date May 2008 http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/sharp...le-1-1-support/ http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/S...ay_Player_/1339 Marantz BD8002 Profile 1.1 Internal decoding of Dolby True HD and DTS HD MA 7.1 Analog Outs Realta HQV Video Processing SD Card Reader MSRP $2100 Street Date Q2 2008 http://www.avrev.com/news/0108/03.marantzbd226.shtml http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/M...his_Spring/1347 Funai NB500 Profile 1.1 MSRP Under $300 Street Date Q2 2008 http://funai.us/BDPrelease010208.pdf http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/F...ray_Player/1341 Note: Funai is a Japanese CE company that manufactures most of the brands they sell at Walmart (Sylvania, Symphonic, Emerson, Durabrand, Magnavox). This player will reportedly bear the Sylvania brand and is targeted for the Walmart chain and other retailers. Pioneer BDP-95FD No specifics yet. http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/09/08/han...blu-ray-player/ Sony Sapphire 1 and 2 Prototype players demoed at CES 2008 BD Live 2.0 XvYCC Colorspace MSRP TBA Street Date TBA http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/08/sony-...lu-ray-players/ No word on the Denon yet. Sony also announced BD Live 2.0 for the PS3 with a future software update. [ + quote] This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 9 January 2008 9:55
7thsinger (AfterDawn Addict) 8 January 2008 13:01
*Originally posted by red2tango:* that players looks sexy.philips is a great company. Sexy huh? It is a good lookin' player. One of my dvd players is a phillips and it works great. It'll play anything i toss at it. [ + quote]
borhan9 (AfterDawn Addict) 9 January 2008 7:00
I like this. It is at a reasonable price and for those features its a great drive. [ + quote]