Panasonic’s Expanded 2009 Blu-Ray Line up

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Published Jan 8, 2009 Panasonic’s Expanded 2009 Blu-Ray Line up Features Viera Cast®, Bd Live™, World’s First Vhs-Blu-Ray Player and Reduced Power Consumption.

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ReaggieP

Jan 12, 2009 - CST 7:15 AM

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With Panasonics engineering, it will be interesting to see if any of the other ces companies step up and do something with Blu-Ray. So far to this point Sony and Pioneer have outpriced themselves with inferior players and prices... Henning, did you happen to see a demo of the 60 or 80s series player? How is the 35 treating you? I want to purchase a 35, but my wife isn't so sold on the idea of yet another player coming home.

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Jan 12, 2009 - CST 7:17 AM

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I keep waiting for amazon to replenish the BD35K but it doesn't look like they will. I expected prices to drop after Christmas but they actually have risen. I'm shocked!

Henning

Jan 13, 2009 - CST 6:33 AM

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Henning, did you happen to see a demo of the 60 or 80s series player? How is the 35 treating you?

No haven't seen them yet. The 35 is still alive and spinning and I'm very happy with it. Rock solid performance and a very stable and reliable player that acts like you expect it to.

jamesplath

Mar 12, 2009 - CDT 7:32 AM

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Sound interesting, and all good things if they work. But I notice their focus is on "ease" and not speed. I don't know about the rest of you, but I frankly wish that the Blu-ray engineers would stop working on bells and whistles and work on basic playback function to get that infernal load-time down to something less insufferable. Some discs can take up to three minutes to load, others 45 seconds. So there's certainly room for improvement here, and I didn't notice a thing in the release about this basic operational feature.

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Mar 12, 2009 - CDT 7:32 AM

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Another thing, this muddies the waters somewhat for people who are at the point of upgrading their initial Blu-ray player or starting anew. What success have people had with newer stand-alone Blu-ray players?

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Mar 12, 2009 - CDT 8:07 AM

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Not another useless DVD/VHS Combo Player. But that's just my opinion.

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Mar 12, 2009 - CDT 8:26 AM

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I don't know about the rest of you, but I frankly wish that the Blu-ray engineers would stop working on bells and whistles and work on basic playback function to get that infernal load-time down to something less insufferable. Some discs can take up to three minutes to load, others 45 seconds.

As you know I reviewed the DMP-35 and these players are fast. Not PS3 fast but up there. I have never three minutes to load times. Normal is 10 - 30 seconds.

So, my guess is that these babies are at least as fast.

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Mar 12, 2009 - CDT 1:00 PM

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The DMP-BD60 model must be coming soon because a couple reviews are out already from people that got them a bit early.

http://www.trustedreviews.com/home-cinema/review/2009/03/12/Panasonic-DMP-BD60-Blu-ray-Player/p1

http://crave.cnet.co.uk/homecinema/0,39029447,49301475,00.htm

When I emailed panasonic to ask a release date they told me sometime in Spring. Wow, thanks for the help Panasonic, lol. I cannot wait as it will be my first BD player. RELEASE IT NOW!

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Mar 13, 2009 - CDT 4:57 PM

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Who Cares!!

I have 3 Blu ray players, Do I really need another one with the same opts.

The pricing is what needs to be worked out, and make them all code free.

We just watched the Region B Taken and its great.

John J. Puccio

Mar 13, 2009 - CDT 6:02 PM

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Appleman,

I see that Amazon England has the BD of "Taken" for a little over seventeen pounds or about $25, plus shipping, which is actually cheaper than Amazon U.S.'s pre-order price of $27.99 (but no U.S. release date is given). So, yeah, if the European version plays on all BD players, it's a good deal.

It will play over here, no?

John

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