The availability of the next generation of Blu-Ray disc player has recently been announced by Panasonic.

As well as playing pre recorded Blu-Ray discs, the DMP-BD10A also plays standard defintion DVD's and CD's. Conventional DVD's play with automatic 1080p up-conversion via the HDMI connector.

On the audio front, the Panasonic DMP-BD10A features an upgrade package that brings high end surround audio to the viewing experience via the inclusion of 7.1 channel Dolby Surround, True HD and dts-HD High Resolution Audio  decoding technology.

Panasonic's proprietary EZ-SyncTM system for integrated one touch operation of Panasonic home theater components is incorporated into the DMP-BD10A. During it's initial introduction and for a limited time, the player also comes bundled with five hit Blu-ray discs.

• Pirates of the Caribbean - Curse of the Black Pearl - Disney
• Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man's Chest - Disney
• Transporter - Disney
• Fantastic 4 - Fox
• Crash - Lionsgate.

The DMP-BD10A includes proprietary P4HD (Pixel Precision Progressive Processing for HD) technology for performing IP conversion at the pixel level for ultra-fine details.

To get the best images from a BD-Video disc, you need a player that renders high-quality progressive images, expresses motion smoothly and draws sharp diagonal lines. The DMP-BD10A's P4HD processes more than 15 billion pixels per second and applies the optimum processing to every pixel in the video data on the disc. This results in images with exceptional resolution.

Other notable features include a 297MHz 14bit Video D/A Converter with 4X oversampling, video noise shaping that improves signal-to-noise ratios by shifting noise to an unused band, and theoretical support for nearly 4400 billion colors.

The DMP-BD10A also incorporates Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby Digital and dts decoding, and BD-J (Java application) interactive capability.

US SRP is US $599.95