More on Chinese Blu-ray Disc Players
Posted by Dave Cowl
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Name: Dave Cowl
Email: dave@formatwarcentral.com
Site: http://www.blu-raystats.com
About: Originally from New Zealand, Dave now resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Dave's day job
involves developing high resolution LCoS projectors.
Dave also has a strong interest in cinema and film making, and has
always been an early adopter - he still uses his Sony DVP-S7000 DVD
Player and also owns first generation Blu-ray, HD DVD and DTheater
D-VHS equipment.
Dave has been following the HD Disc format war since the beginning,
which resulted in the Blu-ray Statistics and HD DVD Statistics
websites, designed to track the studio progress with features as they
have released HD media product.See Authors Posts (350) on January 20, 2008
Filed Under: Blu-ray, Format War
It seems that a second Chinese Blu-ray player is in the works. I can confirm that this Gowell Blu-ray player is not the one that was demonstrated at CES by invitation only.
The Gowell player also has a wide feature set including HDMI 1.3, Ethernet, BDR/RE support, SD/MS card slots, TrueHD and DTS HD decoding, etc. However some of the specs like the SATA support kind of imply that they might have a reference platform and will build for others to brand the player.
In any case, it is great to see new, potentially inexpensive players on the horizon.
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Hey Dave, check your spelling of Chinese in the title…