Samsung to debut first second-gen Blu-ray player at CES

Toshiba and LG have already indicated their plans to wow us at CES, and now the first company to release a Blu-ray player -- Samsung -- has announced it will display the first second generation player next week at CES. The new player is expected to cost 20 percent less than its predecessor (the BD-P1000, pictured above), but contain more interactive functions. We hope that means this will be the first non-PlayStation 3 device to support BD Live features, although we'll have to wait and see. As far as joining LG with a hybrid player like the one it had announced and then denied last year, the company currently has "no plans" to do so, but could if the market remains divided. Other products we can expect to see next week include even larger versions of Samsung's Slim DLP HDTVs, and an all new line of plasmas going all the way up to 80 inches.

[Trent @ Jan 4th 2007 2:17PM]

mmmmmm.... second generation crippleware.

color me "nonplussed"

[solomon @ Jan 4th 2007 4:21PM]

will it play the descent ?

[chris @ Jan 4th 2007 2:40PM]

lol ya uh huh... blurays just stupid how could they launch players without support for bd live ... i-hd is one of the mostwicked things on hddvd and it works everywhere .. so bite me sony with u're crippled hardware crap!

[Bob @ Jan 4th 2007 2:53PM]

You do realize this is Samsung right chief?

[bl0nde @ Jan 4th 2007 3:59PM]

If they want to shift these in any sort of numbers, they're going to have to be WAY cheaper than their original BDP1000, which is retailing in the UK for approx £800...

[Mark @ Jan 4th 2007 6:22PM]

You know the Current BDP1000 has been reduced to £300??

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-BD-P1000-Blu-Ray-Disc-Player/dp/B000F99FDE

[Dave @ Jan 5th 2007 7:37AM]

Great. I am picking it now.