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Panasonic Announces Sexy, Pointless Portable Blu-ray Player
Wired: Gadget Lab —
LAS VEGAS -- Take a look at the photograph above and wonder, for a moment, just why Panasonic might release a tiny Blu-ray player with a built-in screen. But that's just what it did at CES 2009 today.
Consider the case: The DMP-B15 has a netbook sized screen (8.9") with WSVGA resolution (pretty much the same as a netbook). It has an Ethernet port to use Panasonic's walled garden Internet content service, Vieracast, and a rather poor three hour battery life (just like a netbook!)
Of course, it has a Blu-ray drive in there, but why on Earth would you want that? At this size a DVD rip would be sufficient. The only advantage we see is that there is an HDMI out, meaning it'll work as a standalone Blu-ray player when hooked up ...
Panasonic DMP-B15 is World's first portable Blu-ray Player
I4U News —
... thanks to PHL Reference Chroma Processor Plus technology developed in collaboration with Panasonic Hollywood Laboratory. The PHL Reference Chroma Processor Plus is a high quality image-processing technology that precisely processes each pixel of the Blu-ray Disc video signal in the vertical direction. It reproduces color data with twice the accuracy of conventional systems, resulting in faithful and sharp colors. The Panasonic DMP-B15 will be available in May. Via this Panasonic announcement . More ...
Panasonic DMP-B15 Portable Blu-ray Player
Today Gadgets —
Panasonic world’s first DMP-B15 portable Blu-ray Disc player has been announced at CES 09. Set to available in May, the player can playback a video content from Blu-ray and DVD discs that can views on a 8.9-inch WSVGA screen, and does BD-Live and VIERA CAST internet supported which ability to access the contents from Amazon Video-on-Demand and YouTube that including Google Picasa Web Album, Bloomberg and a weather channel. Otherwise, you’ll get a PHL Reference Chroma Processor Plus, a high quality image-processing technology, SD card slot, and a HDMI output.
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Panasonic releases first portable Blu-ray player
Gadgetell —
Section: Video, DVD/DVR/Blu-ray, Portable Video
Panasonic has just released information on the upcoming release of the DMP-B15, the world’s first portable Blu-ray disc player. Included with the DMP-B15 will be almost a nine inch LCD screen, Internet access and a SD memory card slot. The only catch is that don’t expect to get the DMP-B15 for a steal; currently the player is priced at $799.95.
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