Samsung ?Premium? Blu-ray Player Does Ultra HD? Sort Of

LAS VEGAS -- Now that Ultra High-Definition TVs -- which have 4x the number of pixels as 1080p sets -- are a real thing, the question remains: Does anything exist that can actually play the format? Samsung says yes, offering up a "premium" Blu-ray player capable of serving up Ultra HD video ... with a catch.

The catch is the video is actually upconverted from 1080p (or standard-def), not native 4K (the other term for Ultra HD). You can't really blame Samsung -- since there isn't yet a consumer disc format for Ultra HD, there wasn't really a way to build a player that outputs 4K natively, at least not one that would be guaranteed to still work in a year.

The player (model no. BD-F7500)…
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