Panasonic DMP-BD35 Blu-ray player

You’ll probably do a double take when you first see Panasonic’s DMP-BD35. It’s unfeasibly thin. Sat atop my regular Blu-ray player, Pioneer’s hulking great LX-70a, it seems insignificant. How, you might wonder, can this lightweight deliver state-of-the-art picture and sound, let alone challenge the AV extremes of more esoteric machinery? But it can and does.

The BD35 is the replacement for the popular BD30 launched early in 2008. Standing just 49mm tall, thanks to a slim-line disc drive and some downsized silicon, it cuts a much smaller silhouette...

First published in Home Cinema Choice 163

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