Philips Expands High-definition Home Entertainment Viewing Experience With Four New Philips Blu-ray Disc™ Players

February 21, 2009

With more than 1,000 titles available, Blu-ray Disc allows consumer to bring a true cinema experience into their living room. Philips is enhancing the viewing experience through its latest line Blu-ray Disc (BD) players. The new players feature the latest in HD connectivity, Deep Color™ technology and BD Live features. These new BD players boast a stylish design with unbeatable sound and picture quality taking Blu-ray Disc interactivity to a new dimension. The HTS 5100B is the first Blu-ray home theatre offering from Philips. Combining the best in Blu-ray technology with immersive surround sound, the HTS 5100B brings cinema quality sound and picture directly to the living room. All that’s missing is the popcorn. The HTS 5100B touts stunning Full HD picture quality and features Deep Color™ technology creating vivid images with more than a billion colors1 and eliminates on-screen color banding. The HTS 5100B also supports 1080p at native 24 frames per second (fps) cinematic resolution, which is the same format used in movies, input via HDMI. Users can access extra features with Bonus View and preview content without leaving the movie with Picture-in-Picture. Older DVD libraries will look better than ever as the BD player automatically upscales images to near full-HD quality - a major attraction to consumers who, as they migrate to HDTV sets, find that standard DVDs do not offer the HD content they expect. All this technology is packaged in a sleek design that puts old, bulky home theater in-a-box to shame. The soft, curved edges of the console and the minimalist room speakers, keep the picture and sound as main attraction “With more than 90 percent of major motion picture studios producing films in Blu-ray and with a variety of rental options, Blu-ray Disc is becoming increasingly popular as consumers’ choice for high-definition movies, music, games and more,” said Todd Richardson, senior vice president of sales and marketing for P&F, the exclusive manufacturer and distributor for Philips televisions and home theater in the U.S. “Our new Blu-ray home theater and stand alone units offer consumers the best possible Full HD picture quality, full surround sound capabilities and access to bonus features.” Philips line of stand alone Blu-ray Disc players also include the BDP 3010, BDP5010, BDP7310 all offer full1080p at 24fps for cinema-like images. Bonus View allows consumers to access a wealth of additional features, enhancing the entertainment value beyond the film. The BPD5010 is upgradable to BD-Live and the BDP7310 is BD Live allowing users to access future online bonus content on compatible discs. Deep Color technology delivers vivid images in more than a billion colors and eliminates on-screen color banding. Helping make the transition to Blu-ray seamless, Philips upscales consumers existing DVD’s them to 1080p to make the picture look even better. The BDP7310 offers DivX and WMV playback and ensures users can watch a wealth of videos without limiting format options. Delivering a simple entertainment experience, Philips EasyLink™ 3 allows easy control of connected devices via HDMI Consumer Electronics Control (CEC1) function with one remote. One button does it all - the TV and A/V components communicate via the same HDMI cables that deliver audio and high-def video. Model Profile BD Live SD Card Slot DivX/WMV Available MSRP HTS 5100B 1.1 Yes June TBD BDP3010 1.1 Yes April $229.99 BDP5010 2.0 X Yes April $249.99 BDP7310 2.0 X Yes, with SD card X May $299.99 About P&F - P&F is a subsidiary of the Funai Electric Co., LTD, Inc. and is the manufacturer and distributor for Philips consumer televisions and home theatre in the U.S. Funai Electric Co., Ltd., established in 1961, is headquartered in Osaka, Japan and is listed in the Tokyo Securities Exchange First Section (6839). In addition to the consumer electronic product brands sold by FUNAI Corporation and the products sold by other FUNAI sales and marketing companies in Asia, Europe, and South America, Funai Electric Company, Ltd. is a major original equipment manufacturer (OEM) supplier for appliance, consumer electronic, computer, and computer peripheral companies on a global basis. For more information on the Funai group, visit www.funaiworld.com.

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