Will there be bluray portable players like the current dvd models?

[yoda313]

So I was wondering - will they ever make portable bluray players like the exisiting portable dvd players?

They'd have to encorporate hdmi into them of course. Would there be enough demand to make them though? Are they in the pipeline?

I'm not in the market for them right now. But I am curious if they are being developed.

[MOVIEGEEK]

I haven't heard of any portables in the works but you can buy a laptop with a Blu Ray drive.

[yoda313]

I haven't heard of any portables in the works but you can buy a laptop with a Blu Ray drive.

Ah quite true for that possibility. However that would seem to be overkill for one who wants to just watch a bluray without a full blown laptop.

I'm sure there must be some highend producer out there making plans for a portable bluray player. I imagine if it could play m2ts files with a portable screen on bluray recordable media AND usb ports it would have a sizeable niche market out there.

[edDV]

Why Blu-Ray for a small screen? Maybe for HD goggles or a player out HDMi to a large screen.

But who wants to carry Blu-Ray discs around? It should be in RAM.

[MOVIEGEEK]

Panasonic will have a portable this year:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/156650/panasonic_unveils_first_portable_bluray_player.html

[orsetto]

If Panasonic succeeds, more will follow. The holdup right now is the BluRay drives, which are still a little pricey for the portable mass-market. This past year the sales data on portables priced over $200 was not encouraging, which might explain Sony dropping their flagship standard-def portable by almost $60 and letting Panasonic be first to test the waters with a BD portable. Regarding BD laptops, I was floored when passing thru a Best Buy last week: they had Sony Vaio laptops and Sony iMac-knockoffs with BD for only $999! Maybe prices will fall quicker than expected after all.

[Epicurus8a]

I recently saw an article saying someone will release one soon. (It might have been the Panasonic.)

[Zen of Encoding]

So I was wondering - will they ever make portable bluray players like the exisiting portable dvd players?

They'd have to encorporate hdmi into them of course. Would there be enough demand to make them though? Are they in the pipeline?

I'm not in the market for them right now. But I am curious if they are being developed.

The bottle-neck for portable bluray players is the display screen. A sub- 17" panel that actually *has* more
than 1920 X 1080 pixels is very rare and expensive, even in the most modern notebook computers.

You'd need the newest WUXGA display screen to get the full 1080P resolution:

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/WUXGA

[MOVIEGEEK]

The MSRP will be $800USD for the B15:
http://www.electronichouse.com/slideshow/category/5704/871