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Blu-ray Player
BD Live/ 7.1 Audio codac
SD Card slot
HDMI 1080P 1.3b upconvert for all DVD's
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Product Dimensions: 12.4 x 16.9 x 2.4 inches ; 9.9 pounds
Shipping Weight: 12 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
ASIN: B001ARLQGY
Item model number: DMP-BD50K
Batteries: 2 AA batteries required.

Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (22 customer reviews)

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #30,920 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)
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Date first available at Amazon.com: June 5, 2008

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Manufacturer's Description -- July 20, 2008
The Ultimate Playback Source for High Definition 1080p Content
The DMP-BD50 is Panasonics third generation Blu-ray disc player. Blu-ray media offers a wide range of functions that foster the transition to HD including 1080p image quality, lossless Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio and versatile Picture-in-Picture applications. The DMP-BD50 adds the new BD-Live function, which uses the internet to further enhance your entertainment experience by allowing you to download additional contents and share the information with other BD-Live users. In the future, BD-Live will allow users to connect the DMP-BD50 to the internet to download such data as images and subtitles, and to join in multi-player interactive games that are linked to bonus movie content contained in Blu-ray discs.

Experience True Cinema Viewing Right in Your Living Room
For optimum image HD i/p quality, the DMP-BD50 features the PHL Reference Chroma processor and P conversion processor, which combine to create UniPhier, a precise digital video processor that produces sharp, crisp, natural colors that are extremely faithful to the original movie.

Incredible Sound Completes the Hi-Def Experience
The true to the original source images are complimented by an exceptionally pure, accurate sounds achieved through Audio Re-master and integrated decoders for the lossless Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio formats. Furthermore, the DMP-BD50 can be combined with a 7.1 channel amplifier and speakers for full 7.1 channel surround sound.

HD Networking with SD Card
Networking is an essential product of the DMP-BD50. The included Memory Card slot allows for easy transferring of images from an HD camcorder or digital still camera via an SD Memory card. You can simply insert the SD card into the DMP-BD50 to view images on a large screen HD flat panel television with AVCHD format video images or JPEG stills in full 1920x1080 resolution.

One-Touch Control from Your TV's Remote
With EZ Sync HDAVI Control, you can control your Blu-ray Disc player and all your home theater components with your TV's remote2. Simply press the EZ Sync button and select "BD Player" on the menu screen; the BD player's menu will be displayed and you can begin playback.

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HD 1080p at 24p / BD Live / SD Card Playback / Viera Link / 7.1 Channel Home Theater Decoding / Ethernet Port / Deep Color 16-Level Motion Detection with Pixel-Based Motion Adaptive Diagonal Processing Detection of 3 - 2/2 - 2 Pull-Down Progressive Processing Up-Conversion to 1080p Playback HDMI connection required. 1080/24p Playback (Blu-Ray disc) HDMI V.1.3 with Deep Color Reverse compatible to play virtually all DVD and CD media

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5.0 out of 5 stars Confirmed - HD Audio output from analog outputs, August 7, 2008

By	Kevin Talbot "Wine Loving Geek!" (Cawli-forni-ah !!) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

OK so I am one of the many who were waiting for this player for one big reason. I have expensive audio components and didn't want to replace them just to get HDMI input for True HD and DTS Master Audio. Now that I own it I can positively confirm that this player decodes both of the Hi-Def audio formats internally and sends them to the analog outputs... and OH MY what a huge difference over AC-3 or DTS!! The most noticeable thing is the ambient sound that is lost in compression. Watched 5th Element last night and the beginning of the movie starts with this echoing reverberation during the credits. In AC3 it sounds like an echo, but in TrueHD it's all filled in with a very deep sound field and detailed ambient sound. The overall impression is sound that is much fuller and balanced. It also has a nice feature called Dialog Enhancer which bumps the volume of dialog in soundtracks so you can hear the dialog when listning at low volume levels (so your spouse can sleep...feelin' me?). In 2 words - Worth it!

Next the features and a bonus for older Mitsu owners. I have a Mitsubishi WD-62628 1080P DLP TV. This unit was one of the first 1080P TV's made. They did not have the video processing capability at the time to take a 1080P input. So it's max input on the main HDMI connector or component video is 1080i and the TV upconverts to 1080P. This has left owners of this family of TV's with a quandary in that they want to see movies from their Blu-Ray player in 1080P not 1080i. There have been rumors that you can use the HDMI-2 input for native 1080P input if you tell the TV that a computer is connected. Well I can confirm that this actually works just fine !! You set the Net Command to enable HDMI-2 and that a PC is what is on that input. Disable the audio part (if you are going to use the analog outputs from the Panny like me) and then tell the blu-ray player to output at 1080P (rather than auto-detect). The TV will momentarily display a message that the video signal is non-standard, but will then display it anyway. So I get HD audio and 1080P video with my older TV and non-HDMI audio processor!! Bonus #2 is that this Panny player also has picture controls for brightness, contrast, gamma, color, and black level so you can tweak the picture if necessary. It also has canned settings (normal, cinema and 2 others). I find that movies look best in Cinema. It deepens the color and seems to provide better color spectrum.

I hope this answers the questions for a bunch of you that are still sitting on the wall. This one finally does it all, A/V wise. I have not hooked it up to the LAN yet for BD-Live functions. That was not a big part of my plan for this but will happen shortly.

Happy viewing!

Post Review Note: One thing I have discovered is that the picture controls on the BD50 don't offer as much adjustment as the controls on a TV. The straight 1080P input is a little on the bright side. I found that the BD50 will not enable 1080i component video and HDMI at the same time, it's one or the other. Once you turn on HDMI, it drops the component video to standard def no matter what you set it on. This means I can't look at upconverted 1080i (via component video) with full picture controls vs 1080p on HDMI-2 with the minimal controls offered by the BD50 without stopping the movie and re-starting it... Jury is still out on this one.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Uncompressed Digital Audio without a upgrading your Home Theater, June 13, 2008

By	J. S. Fetters - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is the FIRST Blu-ray Disc player to offer BUILT-IN decoders for "DTSHD Master Audio". This allows you to listen to the highest quality audio available on Blu-ray WITHOUT purchasing a new Home Theater receiver. Currently all Blu-ray Disc players are capable of decoding "Uncompressed PCM" and about half can also decode "DolbyTrueHD" (which sounds better than the "PCM"), but only the "Panasonic DMP-BD50" can decode "DTSHD Master Audio" (which sounds better than the "Dolby") in addition to the other two uncompressed HD audio formats.

The other UNIQUE feature is the "Profile 2.0" compliance. This is the FINAL standard for the Blu-ray Disc format and the "DMP-BBD50" is the second Blu-ray Disc player (the first being the PS3) to include it in its design specs. This allows the player to connect to the internet and access bonus content, play games and interact with other Blu-ray Disc players which are viewing the same disc. Very cool, indeed.

But honestly, if you've already purchased a new receiver with "DolbyTrueHD" and "DTSHS Master Audio" decoding and you don't care about "Profile 2.0" support, you can save $200 and just get the "Panasonic DMP-BD30". It lacks the BUILT-IN decoders for the 3 uncompressed HD audio formats but can transmit them over an HDMI cable to your capable receiver for decoding and playback (the "DMP-BD50" can do this as well).

[the only DRAWBACK is that the ANALOG output ONLY supports 5.1 (5 speakers) and NOT 7.1 (seven speakers) - the "Sony BSP-S550" due out this Fall ($500) will do EVERYTHING the "DMP-BD50" does, plus 7.1 analog output AND for $200 less - patience is a virtue]

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5.0 out of 5 stars Panasonic DMP-BD50K, August 27, 2008

By	hery19 "Eddie" (Jacksonville, FL) - See all my reviews

Needed a Bluray player that would process all the new audio formats internally and send them via HDMI and this Panny is doing everything beautifully. No complaints, had it now for about a month and everything is working great, no hdmi handshake issues, outstanding picture, great sound. Its fairly fast loading up and the standard definition dvds don't look bad either. This is a keeper!! Its connected to a Rotel RSP-1069 via hdmi and to a Mitsubishi 73833 TV

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