Sony BDP-S790 pre-order starts for $250

Written on April 22, 2012 by Kristoff Jones

Sony begins taking pre-orders of its most advanced Blu-ray player, the dual-core BDP-S790.

Sony on Sunday announced that it will soon start shipping ‘its most advanced Blu-ray player’ to date. The BDP-S790, one of the most anticipated devices of CES 2012, is Sony’s first of its kind dual-core Blu-ray player that is capable of “upscaling” videos to 4k resolution.

It also allows converting 2D video to 3D in real-time, has 16-bit image processing and comes with Wi-Fi connectivity that allows access to the Sony Entertainment Network as well as other movie and music services such as Amazon Instant Video, Flixter, Pandora, Vudu and Netflix.