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NEWS: Panasonic's Blu-ray flagship due in June

Andrew Everard 24 April 2008 11:26

Panasonic has announced European pricing and availability for its flagship DMP-BD50E Blu-ray Disc player, which conforms to profile 2.0 and offers bitstream output from HD audio formats.

It announced at the Munich High End Show, which opened this morning, that the player will go into the shops in June, and sell for 599 euros – currently about £500.

The player offers full compatibility with BD-Live functionality, and has 1080p/24fps, DeepColour and x.v.Colour output from DVD and upscaling to 1080p for DVDs.

It has an onboard decoder for all HD Audio formats, plus that bitstream output capability, and can also play all DVD formats, CD/CD-R/RW, JPEGs and DiVX files.

There's also an SDHD card slot for the playback of pictures and other media files.

Comments

timwileman April 24, 2008 13:14

hope there gonna make enough....

Bullseye April 24, 2008 13:37

Very nice spec.

Collectus April 24, 2008 17:55

Yes, could be exactly what I want to upgrade my system, especially on the on-board audio decoding.

bot bot April 24, 2008 21:36

Can anyone lend me some money please?

Gaz_Stuff April 26, 2008 15:37

Sweet! Might be purchasing one of these in six months when I am ready for my new system!

broke April 28, 2008 10:11

What 's the difference between this and the BD30 that i just bought last week and you reviewed in the last edition of the mag and recommended as the best blue ray player?

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About Andrew Everard

Andrew Everard, Audio Editor of Gramophone since November 1999 and What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision's Consulting Editor, read English at Queens' College, Cambridge a very long time ago! He started his journalistic career in 1982 on Haymarket's photographic magazines, and subsequently worked on What Hi-Fi?, High Fidelity, Audiophile and Home Cinema magazines, as well as contributing a monthly column to Japanese title HiVi.