3D Blu-ray player: Panasonic's DMP-BDT300 to arrive in April

Panasonic should have its first 3D Blu-ray player in the shops by April, the DMP-BDT300.  It's set to cost around £500.

The move to three dimensions won't come cheap then, and if you add in the cost of a 3D TV and a pair of glasses for the whole family, the whole system could easily set you back several thousand pounds.  Still, Panasonic has made sure you get you money's worth with a long list of features:

Panasonic DMP-BDT300 MARCHANDS €     Redcoon  85.89  Digit-photo...  89.00  Fnac  89.89  Amazon.fr  99.00  Darty.com  99.00  Boulanger  109.00  Compare prices

• Plays CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray discs and 3D Blu-ray discs

• Two HDMI 1.4 outputs (one for your TV one for an amp, for instance)

• BD-Live/Profile 2.0

• 7.1 analgoue audio output

• Decodes all audio formats, HD or otherwise

• 1080p/24 Hz compatible

• USB and SD card readers

• DLNA compatible, and Internet connectiivty for Vieracast services.  Optional WiFi via a USB dongle.

• Plays DivX, DivX HD, AVCHD H.264, MP3, MKV ...

Be careful about this last point.  So far, we have never found a Blu-ray player or a TV that's been able to read absolutely every video format in every type of container (TS, M2TS, MKV, AVI …)  The only way that we'll be able to tell is by testing it to see if it really can handle all of these multimedia formats.

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