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Masayuki Kozuka, the general manager of Matsushita’s storage device strategy reveals company plan to release two new High-End Blu-ray players In January. No further information on spec or pricing but Masayuki also announced bundle package with current line of Plasma TV and Blu-ray player coming to your local electronic retailers such as Circuit City and Best Buy. [updated: We just found out Best Buy is selling the bundle online with $500 off Panasonic plasma TV and DMP-BD30K Blu-Ray player, what a sweet deal!]
The most current line of Panasonic’s Blu-Ray player is DMP-BD30 and by far the best standalone Blu-Ray player has to offer. It’s 1.1 profile certified but only does HBR (High Bitrate Bitstreaming) for HD audio, that included the holy grail DTS-MA. There is no internal decoder capability for DD+, True HD or DTS-MA. To get the best out of BD30, one has to get an external processor or a receiver that’s capable to decode HBR. My speculation of the coming ‘High-End’ players is nothing but featuring Internal decoding for Hd-audio and DTS-MA with 7.1analog outputs. What they can do better is adding SACD (via DSD) and DVD-A capability or perhaps no region code and profile 2.0. We’ll see if that’s the case in CES 2008.
Matsushita Manager: To Bundle Blu-Ray Players, PDP TVs In US [via Beurs]
One Response to “Panasonic to Release Two new Blu-Ray Players”
Jason Preston December 11, 2007
Being a gamer myself, I’ve already got my HD-DVD player through my Xbox 360, and whenever I end up picking up a PS3 (it’s bound to happen eventually) I’ll have my blu-ray player. Still – bundle it with a TV, that is tempting.
Daniel: us Blog Business Summit people are throwing our annual blogger part again this year on January 8th. If you or your cohorts would like an invite or some more info, just shoot me an e-mail: jason at blogbusinesssummit dot com.
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