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BD-Live: Enjoy Additional Content via Internet (requires optional SD card) / PHL Reference Chroma Processor Plus / Also plays DVD, CD, DiVX
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Technical Details
- Blu-ray Player- BD Live / 7.1 Lossless Decode and Analog Output
- VIERA Link: Operate with your VIERA Remote Control
- SD Card Slot
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By S. Boryczka (New York, USA)
Whoever writes these long reviews on this site must work for Panasonic.
This unit is terrible. Takes forever to load a DVD (average 2-3 min). Press Eject - it takes 30-40 sec. to eject a disk. Remote funcions responses are slow, no way to get to main menu quick, FWD buttons are slow responsive, it freezed and went crazy trying to load CRANK 2 blueray. I read a lot of good reviews before I bought this unit. Decided to go with Panasonic because I read the Sony units load forever. After 6 mts I come to the same conclusion as all those people talked about sony. Im putting it up on Ebay. JUNK! JUNK! JUNK! Only good this was that it played 7.1 - but if you look at it - there is hardly no bluerays out there with 7.1 decoding yet.
By Big-D (Lake Havasu City, AZ United States)
Love this Blu-Ray player. Loads quick and plays beautifully, both movies and music. Great features and great look.
By Not a DJ (Ouray, CO USA)
I like Panasonic products, and bought this Blu-Ray player to use with my Panasonic LCD TV. The player works fine but I would have thought with available technology that a player such as this would be able to instantly detect there is no disc in the tray without first trying to read it. The unit is also slow to power up and the remote control is not intuitive, at least not for me. Opportunities to improve this unit.
By L. Northington (Tampa, FL USA)
When I first read the many early glowing reviews of the Panasonic BD55 Blu ray disc player I was a bit suspicious. So I read reviews of multiple players from other manufacturers. None of them seemed to match the impression made by this particular Panasonic device. So I decided to aquire my own machine...even after the company had made the decision to discontinue this model and replace it with a similiar model with different numbers behind the Panasonic name.
I am not sorry that I made the decision to buy this unit. It performs just as the reviewers had said. Once you make the correct connections (my receiver has 7.1 analog audio input but no HDMI connection) and understand the players internal set-up process you are rewarded with the real pay off. That pay off is a significant augmentation of picture quality (via the HDMI connection to the HD TV) and true lossless audio. The newest High Def audio formats are truely awesome. Even regular DVDs look noticibly better... but still not as good as the blu ray discs.
The investment has been worth it for me so far. My already good A/V home theater system has been 'juiced' by this little panasonic BD55!!
I have joined the ranks of the many early reviewers. My personal experence has made me a believer.
The service from Amazon and the secondary seller that I utilized was exemplary. I'm satisfied. I would have rated this 5 stars. However I reduced my rating by one star because my Owners manual was printed in only French. Fortunately someone on the AV Forum directed me to the Panasonic web site where I was able to download a copy of the Owners Manual in English.
- jaw2th -
By DaveM (Spain)
I purchased this deck from Amazon at $325.00 new, along with the Onkyo 706 receiver. The deck performs without any issues right out of the box. Startup and disk loading times are reasonable...a bit longer than a normal DVD player, but much faster than my original Toshiba HD-A1 HD DVD player. I downloaded a firmware update and burned it to disk, then installed it without problems. The on-screen menus are intuitive and well laid-out. At the price I paid - I can recommend it without reservation. At the new price - I would do a bit more research, but after the first couple of months of use with 18 or so different Blu-Ray disks, there have been no problems, and Panasonic products are typically reliable and long lasting.
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