Panasonic first with BD Live compatible Blu-ray player

AGAIN SOMETHING TOSHIBA HAS ALREADY DONE. AND THEY ALWAYS DO IT WITH AN AFFORDABLE PRICE. WHATS THIS GOING TO COST, 200,000,000.00? BLUERAY BAD, HDDVD GOOD

Wow, and the first player on either format to offer DTS-HD MA decoding. Sweet video processing stuff too! I'm guessing $800 for this kind of hardware?

[Post edited by Skyhawk on Jan 7, 2008]

I knew about htis player for quite some time. I was hearing a spetember release though. Oh well, anyways this is the player that I want, but you're right Sky it will be Around $699 from what a friend at Pana told me. That is still quite steep, yet. I'm still shocked that Pana went with Uniphier though? They are good scalers but, I would have imagine that they might of tried to make a stab at Anchor Bay, considering Achor doesn't have a manufacture anymore. Well all is not lost for Toshiba there at least. I'm excited to see this player hit stores. Finally a 2.0 player, with a good scaler and analog outputs, now they just have to work out the pricing!!!

Are there any bluray movies with DTS HD MA audio tracks on them? If so how many?

It doesn't seem like a deal breaker to me. As long as it has Dolby TrueHD (which sounds pretty amazing) and DTS HD thats good enough for me as far as audio is concerned.

gvortex7, posted information on an upcoming Phillips bluray player here...

http://www.dvdtown.com/messageboard/topic/6502/6/0

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It's a profile 1.1 player (I know you don't really care about that), it will also be able to bitstream both Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD MA to receivers capable of decoding them, and it also promises to have fast load times. Best of all it has an MSRP of $349.99 which means soon after it's release you may able to pick it up for around $300.

I thought this kind of stuff wasn't important? I thought people only wanted BD because of the PQ/AQ and just to watch the movie? I thought all that extra stuff like PIP and internet connection was no big deal? I thought the benefit of BD is it can hold more, but wait, I won't use the "more" anyway...



[Post edited by Jedi_Soljah on Feb 26, 2008]

Falcon, I have two Blu rays that have dts HD/MA. Eragon and Kiss of the Dragon. As far as the pricing on the Panny BD50K the price will be higher than the $450 Panny BD30K price tag.

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I have two Blu rays that have dts HD/MA. Eragon and Kiss of the Dragon

I wonder why they waste dts HD/MA on a disc like Kiss of the Dragon?? It's a great movie, but let's face it....how good is the audio gonna be from a 1970's Kung Fu movie???

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I wonder why they waste dts HD/MA on a disc like Kiss of the Dragon?? It's a great movie, but let's face it....how good is the audio gonna be from a 1970's Kung Fu movie???

Kiss of the Dragon is from 2001. Enter the Dragon was from the 70's.

Don't all Fox and New Line Titles use DTS HD master?

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Don't all Fox and New Line Titles use DTS HD master?

They most certainly do. Trust me when I tell you, DTS-HD MA's higher then Dolby TureHD's bitrate definitely pays off. Their soundtracks are just more dynamic than TrueHD's. I've seen at least 10 movies with each of those codecs, and I can attest to that being consistently the case.

[Post edited by gvortex7 on Feb 26, 2008]