Panasonic Announces Sexy, Pointless Portable Blu-ray Player

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LAS VEGAS — Take a look at the photograph above and wonder, for a moment, just why Panasonic might release a tiny Blu-ray player with a built-in screen. But that’s just what it did at CES 2009 today.

Consider the case: The DMP-B15 has a netbook sized screen (8.9") with WSVGA resolution (pretty much the same as a netbook). It has an Ethernet port to use Panasonic’s walled garden Internet content service, Vieracast, and a rather poor three hour battery life (just like a netbook!)

Of course, it has a Blu-ray drive in there, but why on Earth would you want that? At this size a DVD rip would be sufficient. The only advantage we see is that there is an HDMI out, meaning it’ll work as a standalone Blu-ray player when hooked up to a TV.

Price is as yet unknown, but we expect it to come in somewhere above the price of a netbook. Unless, of course, its a Sony netbook.

Press release [Panasonic]

Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired

See Also:

  • Panasonic Demos Inch-Thin Plasma TV: Crowd Swoons





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