Panasonic launches $600 DMP-BD10A Blu-ray player, bundles five films
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Matt @ May 15th 2007 9:41AM
Nothing about 7.1 analog outputs. I'm happy with my receiver as is, and don't want to be forced into an unnecessary upgrade there.
Jypson @ May 15th 2007 9:45AM
Well atleast you don't need to buy a PS3 to get an "affordable" Blu-ray player any more.
litttle birdie @ May 15th 2007 9:50AM
How much do you want to bet that they'll include the 5 BD movies in their claimed sales?
GBLAUE @ May 15th 2007 12:53PM
I never recieved the 2 free movies that I was supposed to get with my DMP-BD10.
Paul @ May 15th 2007 10:33AM
This is NOT a new machine. It is the exact same hardware as the BD-10 with the latest firmware. There is absolutely nothing new here except the bundled movie offer and the new price (both of which are outstanding).
WallyB @ May 15th 2007 11:12AM
Are you kidding me? I'd buy that for sure. Since this war isn't going to end in the forseeable future, that's a good deal at that price. And then I could become format-agnostic & buy whatever software I like (for 360 add-on or BRD.
Plus I wouldn't have to support the PS3 to get BR.
Asterra @ May 15th 2007 11:13AM
So I guess, then, that there's no point in asking whether or not this player supports 1080p/24.
DopeBoy @ May 15th 2007 11:33AM
You guys are a bunch of Blu-Ray haters! This is excellent news! "little birdie" you act like Toshiba don't count those free HD DVD's but your wrong! Nothing is free and has a price! Congrats to the Blu-Ray group!!!
JLL @ May 15th 2007 11:42AM
"Not too long after Pioneer went and introduced its second generation Blu-ray player, along comes Panasonic to follow suit, but unlike the BDP-LX70, we've got a pricetag as well as a few tempting reasons to pick this one up over the competition."
The BDP-LX70 is the European version of the new BDP-94HD which has a suggested price of $1,000.
Dave @ May 15th 2007 12:05PM
Yeah! Take that hd-dud!!!
Alex @ May 15th 2007 5:11PM
"Dave @ May 15th 2007 12:05PM
Yeah! Take that hd-dud!!!"
once again the man cheerleader offers her useless comment. Grow up.
It is a shame this is just a rebadged player, I would be pissed if I dropped the $1k on the earlier one and had to put up with the problems only to have them slash the price and hock it to other people.
ihavenoideawhatisgoingon @ May 15th 2007 12:21PM
"Dave @ May 15th 2007 12:05PM
Yeah! Take that hd-dud!!!"
I don't own either format, but, i'm pretty sure you can get an HD-DVD (HD-D2) player ranging from $299 - $450, with the 5 free HD-DVDs. So, I'm not exactly sure what that comment was for.
Kevin Murphy @ May 15th 2007 2:15PM
I've been convinced for some time that this war will come down to who sells the most standalone players by the end of this year. I don't regard PS3 (or XBox) as meaningful, as those buyers are only incidental DVD consumers.
Up to now, that has meant that the battle was between the low-cost HD DVD players (likely under @50 by XMas), and Blu-ray scare tactics trying to get folks to avoid investing in "the losing format."
There's been great danger of Sony waking up in January 2008 with 4 million new standalone HD DVD players out there to less than 500,000 BDs. No amount of PS3s would make up for that.
Now, Blu-ray has an actual competing product, which they might actually be selling for under $500 by Xmas. Those $1000 (and up) players were never going to make the XMas stocking, but these just might.
I know this is going to sound odd to folks who think that BDs current sales lead means something, but this puts blu-ray back in the war.
Kevin Murphy @ May 15th 2007 2:23PM
"low-cost HD DVD players (likely under @50 by XMas)"
that's "low-cost HD DVD players (likely under $250 by XMas)"
Kevin Murphy @ May 15th 2007 2:22PM
I've been convinced for some time that this war will come down to who sells the most standalone players by the end of this year. I don't regard PS3 (or XBox) as meaningful, as those buyers are only incidental DVD consumers.
Up to now, that has meant that the battle was between the low-cost HD DVD players (likely under @50 by XMas), and Blu-ray scare tactics trying to get folks to avoid investing in "the losing format."
There's been great danger of Sony waking up in January 2008 with 4 million new standalone HD DVD players out there to less than 500,000 BDs. No amount of PS3s would make up for that.
Now, Blu-ray has an actual competing product, which they might actually be selling for under $500 by Xmas. Those $1000 (and up) players were never going to make the XMas stocking, but these just might.
I know this is going to sound odd to folks who think that BDs current sales lead means something, but this puts blu-ray back in the war.
Kevin Murphy @ May 15th 2007 2:28PM
Board behaving oddly. Sorry for the duplicate.
ckelly @ May 15th 2007 6:36PM
Is there a release date?
Califlaman @ May 16th 2007 12:14AM
first of all why cant every one just go the video game route and release movies on both formats. its obvious both formats have supporters that are die hard fans, and nothing is going to change there minds. seriously the videogame platforms do quite well even though they arent compatible.
secondly wal mart allready has low cost hddvd players and bluray players.
i was at the wal mart in baldwin hills in los angeles and they had the RCA HVD5000 for 225.00
and a phillips bluray player for a even 400.00
myself i prefer HDDVD to bluray but honestly i see why some people prefer bluray.
its just ashame that disney fox and sony cant just go ahead and release films in HDDVD and universal in bluray. seriously that would end this so called format war. and make everyone happy, and mean more money for the studios.
this isnt like that whole divix debacle years ago, both hd formats have alot going for them.
Mr_Fizzlepop @ May 20th 2007 3:29PM
Well, Kevin, I can't Agree with you on the player argument. I own a PS3 and I do buy BR movies and rent them to watch. Although not all the PS3 owners buy movies, there are some that do and the larger the selection gets, the more likely they will buy some new release in the future since they have a player for Blu-ray. If you only consider 10% of the PS3 sales as sales for Blu-ray players that's over 200,000 right there. The likely reality is that an even Greater percentage of Gamers will buy a few movies here and there.
BR already has almost 40 more movies out than HD DVD. Each and every month they release just 1 or 2 more than HD is releasing.
In Disc Sales BR is outselling HD (And with more selection and releases it's only likely to continue.) creating an ever growing disparity in selection with Warner only helping BR by releasing on both formats so that many titles are available on both but more are Only available on BR. Most people don't know all the Technical differences so all they see are the same movies on both formats, and more movies only in BR.
No blu-ray only Studio will be switching over to releasing HD DVD which has less sell through and inhibits their current sell through and price points by lingering in the market; it's just a bad business move, and these companies are run by business people.
Given this we can conclude that only if HD DVD disc sales increase beyond blu-ray disc sales will there be a business incentive for companies to consider going neutral or locking out blu-ray, and with there being more studios currently locking out HD DVD, as well as those studios being the biggest Studios with releases this year like the spiderman trilogy and the Pirates trilogy(both PG-something releases unlike the R rated Matrix which is due out on BR later this year.), the likelihood of HD DVD discs sales overtaking Blu-ray disc sales is grim at best.
Every day that goes by the disc selection and disparity becomes a larger and larger reason for people to choose a Blu-ray player over an HD DVD player, so the likelihood of increasing Blu-ray players sales, and Decreasing HD DVD players sales makes perfect sense.
In the average non-technical buyers mind, Disc player price point is the only reason to buy an HD DVD player, and the difference in Player prices is also shrinking every day.