Panasonic has announced its first Blu-ray player in Australia since Toshiba threw in the towel. The DMP-BD30 will show how the consumers think of an HD DVD-free product... Panasonic's newest Blu-ray player will output in 1080p/24p and adds Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD and Final Standard Profile for the first time.
The DMP-BD30's Final Standard Profile makes it possible to use Blu-ray 1.1 features like audio mixing and other types of bonus content. A new image processing technology that's added to the product, upsamples colour information to help reproduce colours closer to the original movie.
A new HDMI 1.3 port makes it possible to output Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Audio in bitstream form. Panasonic states that if used in combination with a compatible AV-receiver, the resulting audio will be of 'studio-master-quality'. Of course the player comes with an integrated SD Memory Card slot and VIERA Link.
So, the DMP-BD30 will be available from March... What do you think? A waste of money, or is this the player to spend your hard-earned cash on?
Umm...first post-war Blu-ray? Available from mid-March? I've owned this player since early December 2007. Good stuff.
Final Standard Profile. And what 2.0 will be called ? I wouldnt touch anything blu except burners/roms with a 6ft pole any time soon.
Adjusted the title: Turns out that this upcoming launch is for Australian customers.
These Blu-Ray supporters /I mean the companies/ don't know what to (or how to) tell/lie to their customers... 
Now it would be a great time to make a really FINAL version and lower the hw/media prices a lot, otherwise I suppose their 'victory' won't be worth that much... 
" - yeah! Your right 
"Umm...first post-war Blu-ray? Available from mid-March? I've owned this player since early December 2007. Good stuff."
LOL, now that is funny.Top news
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