Wait until winter for 3D.
Entertainment giant Sony has a launched the BDP-S470 stand-alone 3D-ready Blu-ray player, just a day after Panasonic's slew of 3D Blu-ray player announcements.
The 3D in the cheap as chips $US200 Sony Blu-ray player comes courtesy of a firmware upgrade that the company will roll out in the summer. This same firmware upgrade will also be available on its recently introduced BDP-S570 stand-alone Blu-ray player as well as the BDV-E770W and BDV-E570 models.
In the US at least, the 3D BDP-S470 can stream movies, videos, music, and more from Netflix, Amazon Video On-Demand, Youtube Slacker Internet Radio, Pandora coming Spring 2010, NPR, Sony Pictures and Sony Music making up over 25 total providers through the Sony BRAVIA Internet video platform.
Sony hasn't announced a local release date and when it does we expect to see the price shoot up but you can bet it's already in talks with similar content publishers for Oz.
Sony regards itself as a front-runner in the 3D pack and is aggressively pushing 3D in the hope that consumer adoption will start to ramp up by the tail end of 2010.
Issue: 133 | February, 2012