Panasonic Releases BD30 Blu-ray Player In Australia, Confuses Consumers
Good news for Australian Blu-ray fans (which has to be pretty much anybody keen on Hi-Def, these days). Panasonic has announced the Australian release of their BD30 Blu-ray player.
It will hit shelves in the middle of March for $899 and as we already know, features BD Profile 1.1, which enables PIP and additional extra features thanks to onboard memory.
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Yay, BluRay is awesome and should have won. Consumers are way better off because the studios chose for us and made one format win. Go Panasonic.
BluRay was the better choice even without it being finished it was the awesomest with stuff. It has bigger sized discs which means you can fit more on them and stuff. Also they are better in every way, like with internet BD Live is gunna rock and the fact that I have to have the internet connected to play some discs is such a revolutionary move I reckon it’s the best.
I’m confused. (yup, subliminal humor there…) How can this article’s title say “confuses consumers”, when that hasn’t happened yet? It’s a tad misleading.
Hmmmm. I think Nathan is skipping school and year 8 is such an important year too!
Maybe this is a new way to generate traffic to a site that’s just not getting enough. Posting an uninformed article would do it but this site will get a bad reputation for “reporting and commentating” facts.
A BD player that is Profile 1.1 aka Final Standard Profile aka Bonus View is NOT GOING TO BRICK when Profile 2.0 comes out. IT WON’T BRICK if you insert a BD 2.0 disc inside either. The player just won’t be able to use all the extra features of the disc but the movie and standard extras will play.
Get yourself informed. Read more.
Of course it’s not going to brick. Brick isn’t a verb. But what’s the point of buying a Blu-ray player for $900 bucks when, in six months time, you can’t experience all the features that are on every disc?
This is one of the fundamental flaws in the Blu-ray technology – that there are a number of profiles that aren’t explained to the consumers very well at all. HD DVD at least had a final standard from the get-go.
I know that if I dropped $900 on a player and six months later it couldn’t access all the features on my Blu-ray discs, I’d be pissed off. Very pissed off. I’d probably want to through the player through a window. Like a brick. Maybe.