Sony launches a 3D Blu-ray player

JAPANESE CONGLOMERATE Sony has a launched the BDP-S470 stand-alone 3D-ready Blu-ray player, just a day after Panasonic's slew of 3D Blu-ray player announcements.The 3D in the cheap as chips $200 (£130) Sony Blu-ray player comes courtesy of a firmware upgrade that the company will roll out in the summer

In the US at least, the 3D BDP-S470 can stream movies, videos, music, and more from Netflix, Amazon Video On-Demand, Youtube Slacker Internet Radio, Pandora coming Spring 2010, NPR, Sony Pictures and Sony Music making up over 25 total providers through the Sony BRAVIA Internet video platform.

Sony hasn't announced a UK release date and when it does we expect to see the price shoot up but you can bet it's already in talks with similar content publishers for Blighty.

Sony regards itself as a front-runner in the 3D pack and is aggressively pushing 3D in the hope that consumer adoption will start to ramp up by the tail end of 2010.