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In-car Blu-ray entertainment system coming from Panasonic

Panasonic has announced the launch of its CN-HX900D and CY-BB1000D two-part in-car Blu-ray system, the first of its kind.

The system uses a Windows-powered dash-mountable device which includes a 7-inch 720p display. It also includes a CD/DVD player, GPS, Bluetooth 2.0, a 40GB HDD and iPhone/iPod compatibility.



The Blu-ray player itself is not BD-Live compatible.

The entertainment system is expected to it Japanese stores by September with no word on North American or European releases.



Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 26 Apr 2009 18:06

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• 6 comments

• mike.m

  Looks nice, except for that screen. I'm sure the price tag on this thing won't be cheap, so they could of at least made it an LED screen.

  26.4.2009 18:55 #1

• shummyr

  this is gonna be expensive

  26.4.2009 19:14 #2

• AIM2Shame

  useless when in car dvds only have a 7" screen. You can have a 60mb file on mine thats 40 minutes long and it looks perfect.

  27.4.2009 00:33 #3

• KillerBug

  Just think...50GB of MP3s on one disk!

  27.4.2009 01:59 #4

• hermes_vb

  Originally posted by AIM2Shame: useless when in car dvds only have a 7" screen. You can have a 60mb file on mine thats 40 minutes long and it looks perfect.That is so true. HD becomes evident (and desirable) as the screen size incrases. With a 7" display who can really tell the difference.

  30.4.2009 13:34 #5

• joeseppe42 (unverified)

  Originally posted by KillerBug: Just think...50GB of MP3s on one disk! Hey Killer.... What about the BDXL Disc with 100GB of MP3...!!!!!!

  7.5.2011 12:24 #6