New NEC chip will cut Blu-ray player costs

what about the cost of the media?

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will this be introduced to the ps3's blue ray drive hopfully it will mean a price cut for x mas

the dark knight is amaising

Yeah, actually we heard the same story on aD about these price cutting chips months ago. yet here we are again.

Don't get me wrong price reduction is great in all, but the question is can these chips handle the stress without bugging out.

i actually see this splitting the market you'll have your high end Blue-ray multi chip application then your low end single chip with buggy/cut back features, a perfect ploy (Joe don't care Joe want movie now or Joe get angry)_ a way to draw the masses in.

it wont make it into the PS3 that would require a complete hardware/architecture redesign. Both highly costly.

I want to see 100$ BR players by the end of 08, DO IT!

ZippyDSM don't care ZippyDSM want $100 blue-ray now or ZippyDSM get angry by 08

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ZippyDSM don't care ZippyDSM want $100 blue-ray now or ZippyDSM get angry by 08

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Originally posted by DXR88:

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ZippyDSM don't care ZippyDSM want $100 blue-ray now or ZippyDSM get angry by 08

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ZOMG! NERD SMASH!!!!

:P

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NEC has been manufacturing EMMA chips since 1998. It was the first MPEG decoder LSI for digital STB's.

Here's more info on this new EMMATM 3PF chip:

http://www.necel.com/news/en/archive/0808/0401.html?src=hp1

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NEC Electronics announced that it had developed the world's first single-chip LSI to integrate the main functions of Blu-ray Disc players. Sample shipments of the new LSI, named EMMATM 3PF, will begin in September 2008.

The EMMATM 3PF has the following features.
1. All of the main functions required for Blu-ray Disc players are included on one chip, including the digital conversion of analog data read from optical discs, the digital decoding of encoded images and sounds and a High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) for output to televisions.
2. The package area has been reduced by 50% due to the single-chip configuration, the integration of external memory and the internalization of peripheral functions.
3. The EMMATM 3PF supports BD-ROM Profile 2.0, the latest Blu-ray Disc specification. This profile includes picture-in-picture playback, high quality sound, and network connections for downloading additional content.
4. The EMMATM 3PF has a multi-core CPU, which delivers an industry-best 1150 DMIPS (Dhrystone MIPS), and a graphic processing accelerator.

The EMMATM 3PF allows users to create compact, high performance Blu-ray Disc players. In the future, this new product will make an important contribution to the integration of Blu-ray Disc playback into all audio-visual systems.

Monthly production is expected to be 1,000,000 units from the fourth quarter of 2008.

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it wont make it into the PS3

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ps3 will get a price cut soon cause of the failbox cuts
and you know what they say you pay for what you get

quality is better than quantity

We will definitely see a drop in player's when this hits.

blu ray player costs 600 euro min cost thats a 1000 dolars or over at todays exchange rate 1000 billion next week haha

hmm if it would reduce the prices id say thats a definite "FINALLY" and a sure "ITS BOUT GODAMN TIME" ^^

well this news is bad for sony and the ps3 if cheap blu ray players come out that means the ps3 will no longer be the cheepest one on the market meaning another incentive for them to cut the price on ps3

also because of the cheap blue ray player componens will also get cheaper for the drive so sony will be able to aford another price cut

thank good for mass consumerism and globalisation

NERD SMASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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well this news is bad for sony and the ps3 if cheap blu ray players come out that means the ps3 will no longer be the cheepest one on the market

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Originally posted by fergus100:

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well this news is bad for sony and the ps3 if cheap blu ray players come out that means the ps3 will no longer be the cheepest one on the market meaning another incentive for them to cut the price on ps3

also because of the cheap blue ray player componens will also get cheaper for the drive so sony will be able to aford another price cut

thank good for mass consumerism and globalisation

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Originally posted by fergus100:

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well this news is bad for sony and the ps3 if cheap blu ray players come out that means the ps3 will no longer be the cheepest one on the market

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What are you talking about?

The PS3 is already not the cheapest BluRay player on the market!

Insignia BluRay player at Best Buy for $280:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?...d=1204332499513




Magnavox BluRay player at Walmart for $278:

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=9864613

Samsung BluRay player at Walmart for $341.54

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=9208444

Sony BluRay player at Walmart for $329.54:

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=5984216

Panasonic BluRay player at Walmart for $388.54:

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=8073610

The cheapest PS3 is $399.99.

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