http://hd.engadget.com/2007/05/15/panasonic-launches-600-dmp-bd10a-blu-ray-player-bundles-five-f/ Engadget HD Comments for Panasonic launches $600 DMP-BD10A Blu-ray player, bundles five films http://hd.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://hd.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/05/15/panasonic-launches-600-dmp-bd10a-blu-ray-player-bundles-five-f/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/05/15/panasonic-launches-600-dmp-bd10a-blu-ray-player-bundles-five-f/May 15th 2007 9:41AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/05/15/panasonic-launches-600-dmp-bd10a-blu-ray-player-bundles-five-f/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/05/15/panasonic-launches-600-dmp-bd10a-blu-ray-player-bundles-five-f/May 15th 2007 9:45AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/05/15/panasonic-launches-600-dmp-bd10a-blu-ray-player-bundles-five-f/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/05/15/panasonic-launches-600-dmp-bd10a-blu-ray-player-bundles-five-f/May 15th 2007 9:50AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/05/15/panasonic-launches-600-dmp-bd10a-blu-ray-player-bundles-five-f/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/05/15/panasonic-launches-600-dmp-bd10a-blu-ray-player-bundles-five-f/May 15th 2007 12:53PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/05/15/panasonic-launches-600-dmp-bd10a-blu-ray-player-bundles-five-f/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/05/15/panasonic-launches-600-dmp-bd10a-blu-ray-player-bundles-five-f/May 15th 2007 10:33AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/05/15/panasonic-launches-600-dmp-bd10a-blu-ray-player-bundles-five-f/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/05/15/panasonic-launches-600-dmp-bd10a-blu-ray-player-bundles-five-f/
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.]]>May 15th 2007 2:15PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/05/15/panasonic-launches-600-dmp-bd10a-blu-ray-player-bundles-five-f/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/05/15/panasonic-launches-600-dmp-bd10a-blu-ray-player-bundles-five-f/
The BDP-LX70 is the European version of the new BDP-94HD which has a suggested price of $1,000.]]>May 15th 2007 11:42AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/05/15/panasonic-launches-600-dmp-bd10a-blu-ray-player-bundles-five-f/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/05/15/panasonic-launches-600-dmp-bd10a-blu-ray-player-bundles-five-f/May 15th 2007 11:33AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/05/15/panasonic-launches-600-dmp-bd10a-blu-ray-player-bundles-five-f/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/05/15/panasonic-launches-600-dmp-bd10a-blu-ray-player-bundles-five-f/]]>May 15th 2007 11:13AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/05/15/panasonic-launches-600-dmp-bd10a-blu-ray-player-bundles-five-f/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/05/15/panasonic-launches-600-dmp-bd10a-blu-ray-player-bundles-five-f/
Plus I wouldn't have to support the PS3 to get BR.]]>May 15th 2007 11:12AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/05/15/panasonic-launches-600-dmp-bd10a-blu-ray-player-bundles-five-f/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/05/15/panasonic-launches-600-dmp-bd10a-blu-ray-player-bundles-five-f/May 15th 2007 12:05PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/05/15/panasonic-launches-600-dmp-bd10a-blu-ray-player-bundles-five-f/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/05/15/panasonic-launches-600-dmp-bd10a-blu-ray-player-bundles-five-f/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.]]>May 15th 2007 5:11PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/05/15/panasonic-launches-600-dmp-bd10a-blu-ray-player-bundles-five-f/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/05/15/panasonic-launches-600-dmp-bd10a-blu-ray-player-bundles-five-f/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.]]>May 15th 2007 12:21PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/05/15/panasonic-launches-600-dmp-bd10a-blu-ray-player-bundles-five-f/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/05/15/panasonic-launches-600-dmp-bd10a-blu-ray-player-bundles-five-f/
that's "low-cost HD DVD players (likely under $250 by XMas)"]]>May 15th 2007 2:23PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/05/15/panasonic-launches-600-dmp-bd10a-blu-ray-player-bundles-five-f/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/05/15/panasonic-launches-600-dmp-bd10a-blu-ray-player-bundles-five-f/
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.]]>May 15th 2007 2:22PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/05/15/panasonic-launches-600-dmp-bd10a-blu-ray-player-bundles-five-f/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/05/15/panasonic-launches-600-dmp-bd10a-blu-ray-player-bundles-five-f/]]>May 15th 2007 2:28PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/05/15/panasonic-launches-600-dmp-bd10a-blu-ray-player-bundles-five-f/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/05/15/panasonic-launches-600-dmp-bd10a-blu-ray-player-bundles-five-f/May 15th 2007 6:36PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/05/15/panasonic-launches-600-dmp-bd10a-blu-ray-player-bundles-five-f/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/05/15/panasonic-launches-600-dmp-bd10a-blu-ray-player-bundles-five-f/
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.]]>May 16th 2007 12:14AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/05/15/panasonic-launches-600-dmp-bd10a-blu-ray-player-bundles-five-f/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/05/15/panasonic-launches-600-dmp-bd10a-blu-ray-player-bundles-five-f/
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.
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