Panasonic has announced its first 3D Blu-ray player for 2010, the BDT300.
It promises ‘0.5 second ultra-fast booting’ (though in the demo we saw it was considerably slower), and includes the new UniPhier LSI chip for processing the large volume of Full HD 3D films plus a few other high-tech systems which also promise better quality from 2D material including Adaptive Chroma Upsampling for reproducing original colour in fine details and Enhanced Full HD Upsampling for improving standard DVD sources.
Panasonic BDT300 3D Blu-ray Player
It’s compatible with DLNA networking and will also include Panasonic’s Viera CAST internet offering, which will be adding new content this year with movies on demand from Acetrax, music videos from QTom, video from Daily Motion, Euronews and internet phone and video calls with Skype.
Around the back are 7.1 analogue audio outputs, two HDMI sockets, an SD memory card slot and USB port for playing back AVCHD, MPEG2, JPEG, DivX Plus HD, and MP3 files.
There are also three other non-3D Blu-ray players on the way: the DMP-BD85, DMP-BD65 and DMP-BD45. The main difference between them concerns their DNLA wireless streaming capability. The BD85 comes with a wireless dongle which can be used to stream HD content from your player to your TV or computer via your network. The BD65 is wireless ready but you’ll pay extra for the dongle, while the BD45 has no wireless capability.
The BDT300 is expected to go on sale in May. No word yet on price though.