First Blu-ray BD Profile 1.1 Review (Verdict: Is That All?) [Next-Gen Blu-ray Tested]

The Players: Panasonic DMP-BD30 ($500) and Sony PlayStation 3 with 2.1 firmware ($400 to $500)
The Movies: Fox’s Sunshine and Sony Pictures’ Resident Evil: Extinction
The Challenge: To find out what’s so special about Blu-ray’s BD Profile 1.1, also known as Full Standard Profile or just simply “Picture-In-Picture Enabled”
Every new phase of technology has its first few tentative steps. Not only is Blu-ray in its earliest stage, but that stage seems to be subdivided into a few mini-stages. As we talked about in The State of Blu-ray, most Blu-ray players today are Profile 1.0, which means they play Blu-ray movies (usually).
The two above are currently available with Profile 1.1, with several more, such as Samsung’s BD-UP5000 and Denon’s DVD 3800BDCI, on the way. This profile is characterized by dual-tuner picture-in-picture—and at the moment nothing else.
The final profile is often referred to as 2.0, though the requirement is simply BD Live, [...]

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