The price of Sony's BDZ-S77 has fallen to around $3,000 recently, and Panasonic's 50GB machine, the DMR-E700BD - is being launched this week at $2,780. The Panasonic includes 192kHz/24bit audio support, but it's not clear yet whether this is applied to the BDs or if it can only play DVDAs, for example. However, it can also record onto DVD-RAM, and offers all the usual DVD-RAM-type trick play functions with all types of BD.
