Philips Blu Ray Player

Philips Blu-ray Players

Philips is a leading manufacturer of a variety of consumer electronics, and was one of the founding developers of the Blu-ray standard. Philips blu-ray players allow you to take advantage of all of the benefits of Blu-ray discs including high definition video, surround sound audio and interactive menus and features. The latest Philips blu-ray players include a host of advanced features, and assure you of the finest picture and audio quality available today. In addition to their ability to play both high definition discs, they will also play your older DVD titles and will upconvert them to a 1080p standard for the clearest picture possible. The Philips blu ray players allow you to watch this high definition content through an HDMI connection ensuring the best picture and audio quality available.

Blu-ray history - Blu-ray technology derives its name from the color of the laser it uses to read the disc. Older DVD systems used a red laser that did a good job of reading the discs, but was less efficient because of the wavelength of the beam (650nm). This means that a DVD laser is "fatter" than the new Blu-ray lasers beam at 405 nm. The fatter the beam, the less data it can store on a disc. The Blu-ray standard is based on a disc about the same size as a standard DVD, but can hold a lot more data. Even though they are the same size, the thinner beam of the Blu-ray laser along with other improvements enables the discs to hold a little over 10 times the content of a standard DVD. Where a normal DVD contains about 4.7GB of data, a Blu-ray disc can hold 50GB. This means that it has more than enough space to hold several hours of high definition content with surround sound audio and extra features as well. A Philips blu-ray player takes full advantage of all of this innovation in technology and makes full use of all of its advanced features.

Full HD resolution – The Philips blu-ray players offer the best HD quality available. They will display your HD content in full HD at a resolution of 1920 X 1080. It also supports a variety of resolutions including 480p, 720p, 1080p and 1080i as well as both a 16:9 and 4:3 picture aspect ratio.

HDMI interface – The connection between your Philips blu-ray player and your TV is important. Any signal loss in this connection will result in a less than perfect picture. The whole line of Philips blu-ray players provide for an HDMI interface to make sure the signal sent to your TV is the highest quality possible. Another advantage to the HDMI connection is that it carries the audio as well as the video in one cable. This means less clutter and a cleaner installation for you. Lastly, the Philips blu-ray players also use the HDMI connection for their Easy Link feature. This allows you to use one remote for all of the devices connected through HDMI. It will enable you to control all of your home media components easily, using a single remote control and transfers the commands through the HDMI connection.

Cinema-like quality – The Philips blu-ray players support a variety of formats of Blu-ray discs and can even support discs at 24fps. Unlike other players, the Philips blu-ray players support this format to bring you cinema-like quality directly from the disc with no conversion needed. You will enjoy these movies in the best quality possible, just like the director intended.

Bonus View – Your Philips blu-ray player will enable you to view a picture-in-picture window with different content. This allows you to enjoy many extra features that modern Blu-ray discs include. For example, you could be viewing the main movie and decide to open a second window to watch the director’s comments about the film in real-time. You can even select which audio track between the two you want to hear.

Easy Link – Easy Link is a feature that allows you to control any other device through the HDMI interface. The Philips blu ray player adheres to the full CEC HDMI standard and will interact with any other device you have that uses this standard. This means that with the Philips blu ray player you can control functions like volume level, pause, play and other adjustments to your media gear through the use of one remote. These commands are shared with the other devices through the HDMI cable and simplify controlling these other components.

BD Java – The Philips blu ray player also supports BD Java, which is used for more interactive features like menus. It also supports games if the disc you are watching has them included. By using BD Java you can access these interactive features while the movie is playing. Unlike older DVD players, there is no need to jump out of a movie to access a menu.

Upconvert standard DVD – The Philips blu ray player also supports all of your older DVD titles and will play them along with your newer Blu-ray discs. It will also upconvert them to a 1080p resolution as long as you are using an HDMI cable for connection to your TV. This will improve the quality of these older DVD’s and present them in true HD quality. It also smoothes out the picture and makes the viewing easier as the images are less jagged. The Philips blu ray player will also support additional media, like CD’s, to allow you to view your pictures as well as listen to music on the unit.

Deep Color feature – This feature works with some of the newer displays that support Deep Color. It will output the color information in 10 bit mode, which gives a much truer representation of the natural colors in the film. If the display is not equipped, the Philips blu ray player will revert to a standard 8 bit color scheme to play the movie. This feature also requires you to be using an HDMI cable to implement it.