Samsung has portable 3D Blu-ray

Samsung has introduced the company’s first portable Blu-ray 3D player at a price of $499.

The Samsung BD-C8000 portable Blu-ray Player offers 3D when connected to a 3DTV via an HDMI 1.4a port. It also offers Internet@TV, which delivers the best of the web on your HDTV with downloadable widgets and apps like BLOCKBUSTER, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, Pandora and more.

The player with a large 10.3-inch display runs about three hours on batteries and has wireless LAN built-in and wirelessly synchs to your home network.

At a press event in New York, John Revie, Samsung senior vice president of home entertainment, also introduced new plasma 3D TVs, including one priced at $1,099. That one, the PN50C490 3D TV, has a 50-inch screen size and is capable of playing 720p high-definition video. Also new are plasma 3D TVs that are capable of playing full high-definition 1080p video, including the $2,299 PN58C680, which has a 58-inch screen, and the $1,599 PN50C680, which has a 50-inch screen.

The company also announced what it called its largest 3D TV to date, a 65-inch LED TV priced at around $6,000.