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Originally Posted by ganthc
I still don't see how it justifies a $100 premium over the Sony player that seems to have the same credentials.
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It comes out 2-3 months earlier, that's how. I'm sure once the BDP-S550 is released Panasonic will drop the MSRP on the BD50 to $499. But until then, Panasonic pretty much owns the higher-end standalone market by themselves. They have the only BD2.0 standalone player w/ full internal decoding (and bitstreaming too!) until the S550 comes out, so until that point they can charge a premium for their technology.