Panasonic's DMP-BD35 / DMP-BD55 Blu-ray players hands-on

Sharp wasn't the only company showcasing a new duo of Blu-ray players at CEDIA, as Panasonic decided to whip up a couple as well just for kicks. The DMP-BD35 and DMP-BD55 were made official during IFA, but not until now has Panny shown them off to the wide-eyed public. As with the aforementioned Sharp duo, this pair is also hard to distinguish from one another at first glance. Unfortunately, neither are really worth sweating, but you can have a look over at Engadget HD if you just refuse to believe that.

[who? @ Sep 4th 2008 11:18PM]

Today is officially Blue-Ray news day.

[UnixSystemsEngineer @ Sep 4th 2008 11:38PM]

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.

[who? @ Sep 4th 2008 11:56PM]

@UnixSystemsEngineer

Or if the world turned out to be flat.

[Flashpoint @ Sep 5th 2008 12:13AM]

what is the Ethernet connection on this for?

[who? @ Sep 5th 2008 2:03AM]

@ 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.

[Flashpoint @ Sep 5th 2008 2:33AM]

Why would you connect a Blu Ray player to the internet?

For firmware updates?

[SimbaDogg @ Sep 5th 2008 11:14AM]

@ flashpoint
firmware and bd-live...

[csmity @ Sep 4th 2008 11:28PM]

I've got something you can put your hands on......




enough already.

[phanbouy @ Sep 4th 2008 11:55PM]

+12 internets para ti

[Jesse @ Sep 4th 2008 11:29PM]

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?

[Patrick Austin @ Sep 5th 2008 10:11AM]

Dude, 10base-T is rad. You can download a blu-ray disk in only 11 hours on that shit.

[Down @ Sep 5th 2008 12:41AM]

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.

[Jonny @ Sep 5th 2008 2:31AM]

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?

[csmity @ Sep 5th 2008 7:29AM]

All I see is HDMI and Component?

agreed it would be pretty pointless

[Jago @ Sep 5th 2008 9:22AM]

Component cables do transmit an HD signal. It's just an analog 720p connection.

[Jago @ Sep 6th 2008 1:13PM]

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...

[Spiny Norman @ Sep 5th 2008 10:44AM]

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.

[Paulrus @ Sep 5th 2008 9:13AM]

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?

[Spiny Norman @ Sep 5th 2008 10:46AM]

Whoops. 'Should have said "lower left" of the component jacks.

[Drewski @ Sep 5th 2008 3:33PM]

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.

[Spiny Norman @ Sep 5th 2008 4:37PM]

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.