Panasonic DMP-BD30K Blu-ray player goes under the knife

by Steven Kim, posted Jul 4th 2008 at 12:42PM

FormatWarCentral dissects Panasonic DMP-BD30K Blu-ray player

Our good friends at FormatWarCentral has kicked off a new Blu-ray player undressing series with the recently-updated Panasonic DMP-BD30K. Not a lot of big surprises behind the sheet metal kimono -- there's a lot of air inside the chassis. Click on through for photos of the sparsely populated circuit boards, which are a pretty good indication that the engineering and design of these Profile 1.1 players are pretty mature. All that empty space also bodes well for some price-cutting possibilities, we hope. Of course, the real excitement will come as more players go through the FormatWarCentral lab -- rebadgers/rebranders, beware!

[Image courtesy FormatWarCentral]

Filed under: Blu-ray, Players, Panasonic

Tags: blu-ray, dmp-bd30k, formatwarcentral, undressed

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zargon @ Jul 4th 2008 6:24PM

Where the heck is the DMP-BD50K? If I am going to buy Blu-ray, I am going to get a profile 2.0 player.

They should have updated the DMP-BD30K to profile 2.0 and released it as a resonably cheaper alternative to the DMP-BD50K.

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WiFiSpy @ Jul 4th 2008 7:30PM

We will be doing a Panny BD50 Dissection very soon!

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Jimmy @ Jul 5th 2008 11:41AM

Anyone with the ability to ban people - PLEASE GET RID OF PAUL - he has posted Amazon affiliate links on at least a dozen articles in the last day.

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Mehar @ Jul 5th 2008 8:25PM

Ha that Paul, do you really think people would be dumb enough to make you money like that?

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