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Fuzzy Logic LG and Panasonic release sub $500 BD-Live Blu-ray players
Fuzzy Logic LG and Panasonic release sub $500 BD-Live Blu-ray players | LG and Panasonic release sub $500 BD-Live Blu-ray players |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Monday, 27 October 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 2 Panasonic’s DMP-BD35 aims to impress by being ultra-slim at “just 49mm” high. Featured Whitepaper
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“With quick start-up time, an easy to use menu and VIERA Link - plus connectivity with your digital camera and camcorder via an SD Card slot – the BD35 is a convenient, stylish model for the Australian loungeroom.” Panasonic boasts that it uses a single LSI chip for signal processing, which helped to deliver a slim design and lower power consumption that the model it replaces, while offering better video and audio. Just as LG has its SIMPLINK, Panasonic has VIERA Link, which lets Panasonic TVs and other Panasonic equipment (such as a home theatre system) to be operated by a single remote. The DMP-BD35 also supports Dolby TrueHD, Dolby Digital Plus and DTS-HD Master Audio Essential which enables “7.1-channel surround sound newly adopted in Blu-ray discs”. Panasonic has included lots of additional detail in its press release promising superior video, so if you’re not interested in a PS3 and want a standalone player, you should check out both models in store connected to an identical TV to see which one your eyes say looks better. The thing is, in these newly economically troubled times, do households want to buy a $500 movie player if the DVD player is still working nicely? $500 could also buy you a brand new smartphone, a netbook or a big pile of DVDs instead, so sales of all the latest tech will be very interesting to watch over the next few months, with GfK stats sure to show where consumers ended up spending their Christmas money. If only Blu-ray players could sell for around the $200 mark – they’d be a much each purchase and a no-brainer to replace a broken DVD player with, but we probably won’t see that price point until 2010. So, spend wisely, and if you’re still yet to join the HD revolution, perhaps the first thing you should buy, if you haven’t already, is a full HD 1080P television, because without one of those you won’t get the best that any Blu-ray player will offer. |
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