Focusing also on sound quality, Samsung's new BD player completes consumers' HD total home theater experience with advanced HD audio decoding featuring the industry's first HD audio bit-stream pass-through on HDMI 1.3 for formats DTS-HD Master Audio, DTS-HD High resolution Audio, Dolby TrueHD, and Dolby Digital Plus, enabling a variety of clear, full-bodied sound options.Samsung's BD-P1400 also features support for the optional HDMI Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) system.
"Samsung Electronics has developed a high quality Blu-ray player for consumers craving a complete high definition experience at an affordable price point," said Mr. M.G. Yim, Vice President of the Digital AV Division at Samsung Electronics. "Using Sigma's SMP8634 SoC, our BD-P1400 Blu-ray player delivers an outstanding viewing experience."
"Samsung is taking the high road with its new feature-packed Blu-ray player," said Ken Lowe, vice president of strategic marketing, Sigma Designs. "Sigma is dedicated to providing chips that deliver the highest quality front-of-screen experience and it is gratifying to be selected in a competitive environment for Samsung’s third generation players."
Sigma's SMP8634 media processor's advanced decoder engines support video decoding of H.264 (MPEG-4 part 10), Windows Media Video 9, VC-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 (part 2) with multiple streams, up to the equivalent of two high definition video streams.
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Written by: James Delahunty @ 19 Oct 2007 10:37
