Panasonic have unveiled their DMP-BD10 Blu-ray player and are pushing its above-average technical specs. For example, they say that the minimum requirement for a Blu-ray player is that it can process 62.2 million pixels per second and 1,000 times more audio processing power than a CD. Their player handles 15 billion pixels per second and 192kHz/24bit audio on 8 channels.
It features P4HD (Pixel Precision Progressive Processing for HD), rendering high-quality progressive images, smooth motion, and sharp diagonals. There's Precise Pixel Generation, of which Panasonic say: Both for the de-interlacing and scaling, the DMP-BD10's super-high-speed P4HD generates each pixel correctly according to information obtained from up to 60 surrounding pixels. Applying progressive processing to huge amounts of data, it delivers images of striking beauty.
There's 16-level motion detection and pixel-based motion adaptive technology which adapts depending upon the amount of motion in the content.
The P4HD instantly determines whether a source is film or video and optimizes the processing accordingly. Applying 3:2 or 2:2 pull-down with movie software, it claims to make images look natural and true to life.
Panasonic claim an advantage of all this technology is that both SD and 1080i/720p conversions can be scaled to 1080p with very high quality results.
It features a 297MHz/14bit Video D/A Converter, and high-quality 192kHz/24bit Audio D/A Converter for All Channels. There's also Virtual Battery Operation which prevents AC power noise from entering the audio circuitry.
It should go on sale next week, with a whopping price tag of £1299.99. Wow.
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What, you think we do this for free?
Oh well, your loss Tom. At least we don't put those stupid ad links right in the text.