Fresh off the format war win, Sony has announced two new Blu-ray players. The BDP-S350 and BDP-S550 players both offer compatibility with formats to include BD-R/RE, DVD+R/+RW, DVD-R/-RW, CD, CD-R/RW and JPEG on DVD or CD recordable media. In addition to the wide variety of format support the players will also feature BonusView (Profile v1.1), BD-Live (Profile v2.0) and offer 1080p24/60 output via HDMI. Both players also have an Ethernet port and can handle up to 7.1 channels decoding for Dolby TrueHD and DD+ along with 7.1 channels bitstream audio output including DTS-MA.
Above the BDP-S350, the BDP-S550 will include 1GB of persistent storage along with up to 7.1 channel decoding for DTS-HD MA and up to 7.1 channel analog output.
The BDP-S350 will be available this Summer and retail for $400, the BDP-S550 will be available in the Fall and retail for $500.
Via [SlashGear]
so are then are both of this players future proof?
I don't know if I would feel safe enough to say an tech item it totally future proof, but would commit with relative comfort to buying a Blu-ray player now.