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Panasonic DMP-BD10 Blu-ray player

CHAD SAPIEHA

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Latest comment posted at 9:53 AM EST 10/10/06

Over-priced blu-ray player has excellent picture quality ...Read the full article

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  1. David Nobbs from Canada writes: I'm not surprised that you could not see visual differences given that your test configuration used only a 1080i monitor. For most folks, the only reason to get a new HDTV formats is to take advantage of the 1080p sets that display at 1920 x 1080. Since the target audience would likely have, or plan to purchase a 1080p set, you should consider posting a follow up review using a 1080p set. A good number of these have been available for more than a year, and some are now in the $3000 range.
  2. Paul Aparycki from St. Jean sur Richelieu, Canada writes: . . . . yaaaawwwwn. Oh! is it already time to get up and mow the lawn? Sorry, Imust have dozed off . . . wonder why?
  3. Clark Kent from Canada writes: I refuse to get any of these broken-by-design HD technologies. DRM was a priority over free and easy functioning.
  4. Malcolm Prier from Canada writes: I sell electronics, and we had blu-ray hooked up to a TV right beside the HD-DVD demo in our store, but we had to move it because HD-DVD gave a ter picture, had better sound, and was half the price. Same TV, same cables (component), and we wound up moving the blu-ray simply because it would never have sold sitting next to HD-DVD.
  5. Duane Freemantle from writes: New technology always comes at a premium price. As an educated consumer this is obvious. Additionally paying an extra 15% for a product is not that significant. The new PS3 is being sold at a lost for Sony, thus the comparison between the Blu-ray player and the PS3 is not a fair comparison. I will wait a while, but not for the above reasons or others not mentioned.
  6. Phil Harrington from Canada writes: The whole next-gen notion is overhyped and overpriced. It exists as nothing more than cash cow for greedy companies to charge customers again for what they have already seen under the guise of improved quality and NEW SPECIAL FEATURES. Reality check. A HD or Bluray movie now costs approximately double sometimes even quadruple what you pay for on dvd. There has been no release yet to take advantage of any of the new features. Considering that the amount of movies filmed in HD are spartan to begin with, why would anyone see the need for such a player? Taking an old movie and converting it to 1080p, is like touching up the mona lisa, because its old and dated. It spoils the original work.
  7. Jimmy VanDino from Western, writes: #1...reviewer was looking for visual differences between the reviewed player another Blu-ray player to help determine why this unit carries a price premium. Not to mention the fact that 1080i, and even 720p, is a perfectly fine resolution to review a player at, especially if it is going to be any service to the overwhelming majority of readers who don't own 1080p sets. 1080p sets are a very small subset of the relatively small HD capable television installed base. #4...in defence of Blu-ray...some early Blu-ray titles have been released encoded with old MPEG-2 compression instead of the newer, more advanced VC-1. That is likely the reason for the poor picture quality you saw and should not be the basis for a rational decision to differentiate between Blu-ray and HD-DVD. #5...an educated consumer should also notice that both units play Blu-ray titles but one is much much cheaper. If he's educated he shouldn't care that it is sold at a loss - only that it costs him less to perform the same task. As a previous poster mentioned...both Blu-ray *and* HD-DVD are broken by design and encumbered with consumer-hating DRM. A review neglecting to mention the sorry state of DRM in new consumer electronics is less useful than it should be.

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