Samsung BD-D7000: World's Smallest Blu-ray Player

Samsung unveiled the world's smallest commercially available Blu-ray player, this BD-D7000, at a recent open day event.

Despite the modest size—it measures just 180 x 180 x 30.5 mm—it can play Blu-ray discs in 2D and 3D, automatically converting the former to three dimensions on the fly, and offers the same features as much bigger models.  A built-in media player can access most common video formats (including JPEG, MP3, AVI, DivX HD or MKV) if you connect an external device formatted using NTFS.  Support for BD-Live comes via 1 GB of internal memory, and the BD-D7000 has many of the same Internet services as Samsung's latest TVs.  It supports the DLNA standard to access content from elsewhere on your home network.

It's expected to be available in April, but there's as yet no news on how much it will cost. 

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