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if you can wait

Posted by Joe Murphy Jr on February 3, 2008 at 13:03:13:
Panasonic will be releasing their BD50 by late Q1/Q2. It will be Profile 2.0, decode and bitstream the advanced audio codecs and won't have issues like Samsung BD products. It will probably be around $500. The only potential problem is that their current player (BD30) has a -5dB bug on the LFE/.1 channel when (native or decoded to) PCM is involved. If they get this issue worked out, the player will pretty much do anything you need.

The PS3 will be upgraded to Profile 2.0 very soon (technically it is right now, but the "official" upgrade is coming shortly). While there are no multichannel analog outputs, it will decode all of the audio codecs and send them as PCM over HDMI. The exception is DTS-HD Master Audio, but there's supposed to be a firmware upgrade on the way in Q2.