Panasonic Announces Debut Of Blu-ray Disc High Definition Home Theater Solution

[ericl]

PANASONIC ANNOUNCES DEBUT OF BLU-RAY DISC HIGH DEFINITION HOME THEATER SOLUTION

Panasonic Blu-ray Disc Player (DMP-BD10) – The DMP-BD10, Panasonic’s first Blu-ray Player, with an SRP of $1299.95**, delivers superior high definition digital image quality. Key features include:

* Extraordinary Image -- Panasonic’s proprietary P4HD technology performs IP conversion at the pixel level for the finest details. In addition the DMP-BD10 incorporates a 296MHz, 14bit Video D/A Converter that provides high quality 4x oversampling for 1080i/720p output. Noise shaping video processing shifts the noise component to an unused band to further boost the signal-to-noise ratio. Because of technologies like these, the DMP-BD10 can theoretically reproduce up to nearly 4400 billion colors.
* High Capacity – Blu-ray Discs provide five times more disc capacity than a standard DVD (25 GB* of storage on a single disc and up to 50 GB* on a double layer disc) providing more storage for high definition movies, TV shows, music concerts and other programming, plus additional space for other added-value content.
* Backward Capability -- Plays a variety of optical discs including DVDs and CDs and up-converts video playback from DVDs to 1080P, by using HDMI.

Panasonic Blu-ray Disc Receiver (SA-XR700) – The SA-XR700, Panasonic’s first Blu-ray matching receiver, with an SRP of $999.95, delivers extraordinary sound quality for a dramatic and immersive home theater listening experience. Key features include:

* Full-Digital Amplifier and Advanced Dual Amplifier with up to 7.1 channels.
* Powerful Stereo Mode with 100w/channel (20 kHz, 6 ohms, 0.09% THD)
* 192 kHz/24-bit Audio A/D Converter for Analog Input
* DVD-Audio Ready for High Quality Sound (88 kHz Reproduction, S/N 103dB)
* Wireless Ready
* XM satellite-ready
* 3 HDMI connections: 2 in, 1 out
* 6 Channel Discrete Inputs
* Gold-Plated Terminals and high performance components

Link to Panasonic Press Release..

[Geoffcin]

PANASONIC ANNOUNCES DEBUT OF BLU-RAY DISC HIGH DEFINITION HOME THEATER SOLUTION

Link to Panasonic Press Release..

But the "BlueRay" enabled Receiver DOES NOT claim to have decoding for the new Dolby & DTS HD specs. It does mention that it has DVD-Audio ready inputs (6 X RCA), so I assume that the new format HD audio will be decoded by the player, but it DOES NOT say this in the press release!

Panasonic touts the fact that the player "can theoretically reproduce up to nearly 4400 billion colors" although that's not something that would mean anything, since any more than 32 million colors is undetectable by human vision!

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But the "BlueRay" enabled Receiver DOES NOT claim to have decoding for the new Dolby & DTS HD specs. It does mention that it has DVD-Audio ready inputs (6 X RCA), so I assume that the new format HD audio will be decoded by the player, but it DOES NOT say this in the press release!

Panasonic touts the fact that the player "can theoretically reproduce up to nearly 4400 billion colors" although that's not something that would mean anything, since any more than 32 million colors is undetectable by human vision!

Yeah, but if the number's higher, it's got to be better.

Bonus points for being the first "BluRay Ready" receiver to market too....all them there other receivers with 7.1 analog inputs and HDMI are now obsolete because they're not BluRay ready.

And the world's first "DVD-Audio ready speakers"...wicked...

[Geoffcin]

And the world's first "DVD-Audio ready speakers"...wicked...

Now if they could produce some DVD-Audio SOFTWARE, that would be something!