Now that it is mandatory for Blu-ray players to have the necessary hardware to support Final Standard Profile (1.1), Panasonic has become the first manufacturer to officially announce a player with support for 1.1.
The DMP-BD30 will support picture-in-picture, audio mixing and have an SD memory card slot which will allow for playback of HD content in the AVCHD format. The slot will also ... [ read the full article ]
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It is just marketing crapola, if you can't deceive and lie you can't be a marketer. Which isn’t really true but does seem to be the case? It is nice to see more unit’s coming out with PIP though.
So what they're really trying to make a huge song and dance over is no more than a slightly updated interactive CD.
That's it. Whoopeeey, huh!?
.....and if the 'profile 1.0' discs and players won't play properly with 'profile 1.1' discs and players (as Denon said a little while ago) you can bet you won't be seeing too many risking 'profile 1.1' disc releases.
Originally posted by hughjars: It has no ethernet connectivity.
So what they're really trying to make a huge song and dance over is no more than a slightly updated interactive CD.
That's it. Whoopeeey, huh!?
.....and if the 'profile 1.0' discs and players won't play properly with 'profile 1.1' discs and players (as Denon said a little while ago) you can bet you won't be seeing too many risking 'profile 1.1' disc releases.
Uh oh! What am I supposed to do now!? My DVD player doesn't have internet :S
Is it really necessary? I see it as just one more wire to get tangled, and another hole to drill through the floor...
