Panasonic's DMP-BD35 / DMP-BD55 Blu-ray players hands-on
By Darren Murph 
posted Sep 4th 2008 11:09PM
posted Sep 4th 2008 11:09PM
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Today is officially Blue-Ray news day.
Comments would be blowing up if today Apple announced a UMPC that runs Duke Nukem Forever, has a 3G chipset for use on AT&T, a BluRay drive, and a built-in Optimus Maximus keyboard.
@UnixSystemsEngineer
Or if the world turned out to be flat.
what is the Ethernet connection on this for?
@ Flashpoint
Maybe it's so you can connect to the internet and reply to the first post on an Engadget article asking a random question just so you get to the top. Or maybe not.
Why would you connect a Blu Ray player to the internet?
For firmware updates?
@ flashpoint
firmware and bd-live...
I've got something you can put your hands on......
enough already.
+12 internets para ti
OMG. Does that really say 10Base-t? Do people really still use 10Base-t? We're at gigabit now, why bother even printing that on the product?
Dude, 10base-T is rad. You can download a blu-ray disk in only 11 hours on that shit.
It's annoying that most blu-ray players are unaffordable. I guess the more blu-ray players there are, the more blu-ray manufacturers there are, will ultimately lead to the inevitable reduction in prices, but when this will happen is definitely not in the near future.
Why do they put composite output on BR players?
SERIOUSLY.
Dont you just completely lose the whole point if you're playing it in SD?
All I see is HDMI and Component?
agreed it would be pretty pointless
Component cables do transmit an HD signal. It's just an analog 720p connection.
Never mind, I missed the composite/component deal.
That being said, if someone wanted to buy a Blu-Ray DVD player in the hopes of eventually upgrading their TV, that's what the composites are there for. Future-proofing for when they DO have the TV.
Granted, you can get an LCD for the same rpice as the Blu-Ray, so...
No, there's clearly a yellow composite jack labeled 'Video Out'. It's located to the lower right of the component jacks.
Yea, I don't understand why they include it, but it's probably because they already have the circuitry for the composite/component outputs, and it's easier to simply reuse it than remove it. It's not like there's a lack of space on the back panel.
2 guys from Engay were on vacay and wrote up an awesome review of the new Panny and Sammy lappies!
Panny? Seriously Engadget are you a 12 year old girl? Panny, Sammy, lappy, vacay and other moronic "cutsie" versions of words should be banned from the English language. Could you please at least make an effort to write like a professional and not a schoolgirl?
Whoops. 'Should have said "lower left" of the component jacks.
100T? Wow, stone age. Why on this green earth has Mac been doing Gb ethernet since 2001, 2002, and companies are still trying to dish us this 100T crap? Not a zealot for mac, but at least their doing what's right in that perspective. Don't even get me started on routers, but seriously, Panasonic, get your act together if your trying to feed us Blu-Ray, HD video and crap over 100T.
The primary purpose of the ethernet port is to download firmware upgrades, and access BD Live content over the internet. Given that the vast majority of households in the U.S. have broadband speeds that are less than 20 MBits/s, 100T is probably overkill as it is.
Sure, there are folks out there connected directly to a backbone, but I'd have to imagine that is rather rare.