The SC-BT100 comes with a $999 retail price tag. But as Panasonic Marketing Manager Paul Sabo points out, what’s inside justifies the steep price: a Blu-ray player with all the video processing power and functionality of the DMP-BD30 (minus BD-Live as it’s sans the Ethernet port). This includes full decoding of those high-def audio formats for 5.1 and 7.1 channel surround, a “whisper” mode to moderate volume and an optical input to use with a cable box, etc.
