What Ken said--that's a nice write up.
At the risk of being perceived as looking a gift horse in the mouth, if feasible perhaps in the future DTS could mildly lengthen the amount of time they allot for the structured group presentations (say, 45 minutes instead of 30?). It might afford Ronnie or whomever is presenting some latitude to not feel as pressured to hustle through the presentation as quickly and to be able to better respond to queries.
Additionally, I agree with Pat that we've all probably heard impressive DTS demos over the years . . . but personally I can never get enough.
I've never seen such an encoder demo before and this was interesting, candid and novel to me. But a longer window of time for each presentation might afford time for listening to not just the rowse-the-troops, gunfire-laden film soundtracks, but subtler material as well. I would love to have heard one of those
Surround Records classical titles with DTS-HD MA on that system they took so much time to set up.
I also want to specifically call out and thank DTS for providing beer, wine, other beverages and snacks. And pizza. It was either delicious foresight or a happy accident that the pizza was warm from having recently arrived from La Famiglia, too. Either way, thank you.
Re Panasonic:
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Originally Posted by Sam Posten
As other attendees noted, its not clear if this deck has ANY on board memory tho, and it seems weird that a deck with this price point would require a further investment in storage to make profile 2.0 titles work and not support them 'out of the box'. Would like more info on that.
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Per my PM to you yesterday, Sam, I think
UltimateAVMag.com's review of the BD50 puts a pin in this issue. The player requires an SD card. It is not included in the box. Although I had already read the CNET and PC World reviews online before the show, that review just came to my attention and I read it after getting back home from Vegas. It adds to the small chorus definitively answering the question I posed during the q & a.
Props and much respect to Panasonic for, per Ron's comments, "bending over backwards" to accommodate us. Having said that, since the lovely Bhanu Srinathan was/is a PHL representative, we had the ironic circumstance of being able to look at and touch a BD50, located just behind a PHL presenter who couldn't speak to the questions some of us have/had about its local storage and availability for purchase.
Perhaps one way to handle this might have been for Ms. Srinathan to have had the business card of a Panasonic rep who could speak to those concerns available to give to interested parties. Or conversely, to take any HTFers e-mail address to pass along to the appropriate staffer.
Having said all that, thanks to Panasonic Hollywood Labs for making a representative available to speak to us, and thank you to Panasonic for both the DMP-B50 loaner and the one which was raffled to the lucky John Steffens.
