At the 2010 CES, Panasonic displayed a full 3D Blu-ray disc player to much press and public interest. The player launched is the Panasonic DMP-BDT350. When linked to a 3D HDTV and a set of active shutter 3D glasses customers will be capable to watch 3D films in their home, a reality that may take film viewing to an entire new level of involvement. The DMP-BDT350 has been given the celebrated CES Innovations Award. It performs 3D Bluray, upscale DVD and commonplace audio CD, and comes with the usual Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD decoding. It additionally consists of an SD memory card slot for MP3s and nonetheless photos and video playback, BD-Live and the VIERA Cast range of online streaming media. The 2010 range of new players has inspired new ranges of excitement.
Panasonic have additionally launched 3 different blu-ray disc players specifically the Panasonic DMP-BD45, then the network capable Panasonic DMP-BD65 and ending and the advanced Panasonic DMP-BD85. The BD45 is the entry degree player geared up with a basic function checklist at a sexy value, giving consumers on a good finances an opportunity to expertise a few of well-known blu-ray image quality from Panasonic. It will present 1080p high-def images to appropriate display devices at their native 24Hz frame rate, and outputs Dolby TrueHD and DTS HD MA in bitstream form to an AV receiver, or converts them to PCM for receivers with out the relevant decoding.
The DMP-BD65 and DMP-BD85 share many traits, together with HD audio decoding, VIERA Solid on-line streaming media, an USB connector, and Panasonic’s PHL Reference Chroma Processor Plus picture processing software. What differentiates the BD85 is built-in Wi-Fi, DivX video support by way of the SD card slot, 7.1 analogue audio outputs, an HDMI Jitter Purifier, gold-plated terminals, a 192kHz-24 bit D/A converter and one thing referred to as a Digital Tube Sound Simulator, which is claimed to recreate the sound of a tube amplifier. These new players are slim and sleek. There are also many innovative functions and options together with BD Live, a USB port, SD card slot for data and VOD providers corresponding to Netflix and YouTube. The DMP-BD65 is DLNA compliant, which might mean that it’s going to work seamlessly with different similarly compliant units over your home network. Don’t be concerned about your again assortment of DVDs and audio CDs. The DMP-BD65 handles them with excellent upscaling to 1080p as well.
Panasonics pledge to make players which are extra eco-friendly. All their new bluray players have a Energy Save function that promptly switches off the player when you swap to watching TV. These players will be shipping quickly and priced from $180 to $399 .