• World's First Portable Blu-ray Player by Panasonic

    World's First Portable Blu-ray Player by Panasonic

    Techtree News Staff, Jan 08, 2009 1834 hrs IST

    The DMP-15, slated to be on sale by May this year, sports an 8.9 inch WSVGA (1024x600 pixel) LCD screen to watch HD movies

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Panasonic seems to have beaten the others to launch what might be the world's first portable Blu-ray player.

The DMP-15, slated to be on sale by May this year, sports an 8.9 inch WSVGA (1024x600 pixel) LCD screen to watch all those HD movies. There is competition already though - not in the form of a competing product, but netbooks.

As expected, you'll find a rechargeable battery, an HDMI port, ethernet connectivity and even an SD Card reader, apart from support for BD Live and quite a few limited Internet-based services including YouTube, Amazon video-on-demand and Google PicasaWeb.

Hopefully, this one is followed by competing products from other manufacturers.

Pricing details have still not been announced.

Panasonic also announced a Blu-ray/VHS dual player combo, the DMP-BD70V, along with two new dedicated Blu-ray players: the DMP-BD60 and DMP-BD80.

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