Samsung 2 new BLU-RAY players and one combo link

[NoQuestion]

I will be udgrading to the samsung 2400 player($649 one) but is this player going to have an ethernet port? I heard they passed new standards for the players to include an ethernet port and built in memory... so are these players going to have them?

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Originally Posted by NoQuestion

I will be udgrading to the samsung 2400 player($649 one) but is this player going to have an ethernet port? I heard they passed new standards for the players to include an ethernet port and built in memory... so are these players going to have them?

Profile 2.0 (BD-Live) players must have an Ethernet port. Until then they might not add it.

For one thing, if they did add a port and then for whatever reason the player wasn't able to be upgraded for BD-Live, then consumers would say they were tricked into believing it would be BD-Live compatible because of the port.

Gary

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PC World update on the three new Samsungs. The HD DVD references are to the 5000 dual-format. Hard to fathom what the folks at Samsung are thinking since this can only hurt sales when compliant players are released by other CE's shortly thereafter.

"And, sadly, you won't get support for the forthcoming update to Blu-ray's minimum player specs that go into effect October 31. Those specs delineate requirements for in-unit storage (256MB for those keeping score), picture-in-picture via a secondary audio and video decode, and ethernet-enabled interactivity. Samsung's own initial press release, distributed earlier today, noted the player will have local storage and picture-in-picture--however, it did not specify that those features would be strictly for HD DVD discs (the company has since updated their info). Later in the day I met with Samsung's Maria Colon, marketing manager, and Reid Sullivan, vice president of marketing; they clarified that the BD-UP5000's storage and picture-in-picture would only work or HD DVD discs, not Blu-ray Discs. Sullivan also said that Samsung would not have a Blu-ray player with the updated specs until 2008.

Samsung is checking to see whether support for the new Blu-ray specs might be viable through a future firmware update. My guess is the necessary guts to do so may not be there, but one could hope."

http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/004989.html