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- Viera Cast connecting you with YouTube, Picasa, Weather.
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 "Blu-ray player won't play blu-rays!!!!!" 2009-10-09
By Julie J. Petelle (Des Plaines, IL United States)
I bought this for my fiance earlier this summer as a gift for his birthday. It worked fine for a few months, but now it will only play DVDs and not Blu-Ray discs. Apparently the Blu-Ray lens went bad. A new record in expensive home electronics breaking!

 "BD-Live" 2009-10-08
By Patricia A. Gilbert (Buffalo,NY)
So much fun- set was easy, deciding whether to go wireless or wired took some thought. I decided wireless, My home is wireless using a Linksys WRT545G saving $$ using a WGA54G Gaming adapter as bridge instead of a normal bridge to connect, I highly recommend letting a Linksys Technician do a remote using you computer to set that up- and it works great with a few minutes the Firmware update was downloaded, I was on Viera Cast linked my Picasa web album and linked my Amazon account to the Viera cast by Registering my Blu-Ray registration code generated on Viera Cast- to get Amazon Video-On-Demand, was able to Get YouTube, set my local weather to default. Next purchase will be sound system.

 "Nice for Price" 2009-10-07
By Dana Hartman
It has played well so far. Remote is easy to use. Only draw back is having to run a cable to my router to get firmware updates as it is not wifi.

 "Great low-end product" 2009-10-06
By James E. Boardman (SW Michigan, USA)
I returned a low end Magnavox BluRay player to Walmart when I received this Panasonic. The difference is as between night and day. The picture quality is superb - the sound quality amazing. I use it with my NEC projector and an eight foot screen. The setup was a snap and loading time is half what it was with the Magnavox. Overall, I am very happy with the machine. One thing - don't go out and purchase duplicate BluRay DVDs to replace your older non-BluRay discs. It is not necessary. A regular DVD looks fantastic on this machine. Save your money for new releases. If you want to see what this machine can really do, buy the BBC Earth series Planet Earth - The Complete BBC Series. The quality is stunning. I would highly recommend this machine for anyone looking to try BluRay for the first time.

 "Solid Player - Good integration with Panasonic Plasma Viera" 2009-10-05
By J. Romanski
This Blu-Ray player works very well. No hitches on setup. It integrates well with my Panasonic Viera 42" Plasma set.



This is the first player I've owned that upconverts standard DVDs. I'm not crazy about this. To me the colors looks overly saturated and I don't think the picture is as good. Not sure if this is the player or simply this is what upconversion is all about. I prefer to play standard DVDs at their standard resolution.



Since I bought this player for its Blu-Ray capabilities I'm giving it 5 stars.


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- Outputs: 1 HDMI, 1 component, 1 composite, 1 analog audio (2-channel), 1 digital optical audio, 1 digital coaxial audio, 1 Ethernet
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 "movies" 2009-10-08
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 "BDP-S360" 2009-09-29
By Rex Guinn (Nicholasville, KY)
The Sony Blu-ray player is a good one. I wish I would have bought one that could do NetFlicks online.

I think it would be a good idea for Sony to add this feature in one of their software updates.

 "Sony Blu-Ray" 2009-09-23
By Kevin M (South Carolina)
Excellent blu-ray player for a basic model. Easy menu features to fine tune the player. Very good upconversion of my old DVD's. They look nearly as good as the blu-ray discs themselves. Don't like the slow start up but not a big deal, and wish the remote had the eject button it. Just for convenience. Overall would buy it again and would recommend it.

 "Great BluRay player1" 2009-09-23
By Denis G. Roussillon (Simpsonville, SC USA)
I shopped this player for about two weeks after seeing it at several major retail stores and found it on Amazon.com for $60. less than any other store. Shipping was super fast (arrived in three days) and I'm in awe of the picture and sound quality. It even does a decent job of up-convertig older DVDs.

 "Great Product" 2009-09-23
By Joshua Hennessey (SLC, Utah)
I bought this as a bedroom player I already had a Sony Blu-ray in the living room. So Sony was my only choice. It is a good price, looks great, great picture quality, is easy to hook up, and is an energy saver product. Sony is one of the best, and you pay for it, even still this player was still 50 - 60 bucks cheaper here then at retail stores.


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 "Harman is amazing as always" 2009-10-02
By Alex Vox (Winnetka, IL)
Well, let me disagree with previous reviewers, as it looks they are some HK bashers. My experience with it is of different sort. I own another Blu-Ray player, highly rated LG BD300, and while it is great machine, with plethora of connections and offers Netflix on-board, HK definitely has an edge when it comes to picture and sound quality.

If this thing is connected to Harman's receiver (I have 3490) and great TV (I have 60pg60) the sound and picture will leave you breathless. The difference , as it is always with high quality equipment, is noticeable when all elements of signal chain is of decent quality. In this device all efforts are toward visual/audio experience. Blu-Ray of Celine's show (which is superb both visually and sonically) was played and sounded and looked like never before!

I also can't share other reviewers complains about "slowness" of the device. Again, I have LG bd300 which is highly rated for its rapid load, and so I expected (based on the reviews) some much slower timing from BDP-1. Well, if you would stay with stop-watch and time it, may be it is somewhat slower (I did not timed it), but for normal use, I can't detect any appreciable difference. As I sit down to watch movie, would it load in 20 sec or in 24 makes no difference to me.

In short, if you have a decent tv and sound system, get it. The picture is worth a thousands words.

 "Huge disappointment!" 2009-07-20
By W. Helander (il)
As a fan of H/K products, I was very disappointed by the quality of this very expensive product. It is slow and sd upconverting that is about the same as my PS3. Without analog outputs, I am shocked that H/K thinks they can charge $400 for this player!

 "Over-priced, Under-featured, and Painfully slow" 2009-07-12
By WDH
I picked one up friday (7/10) from Frys. My first inpressions are the H/K offers a very classy design with medium build quality; it's not as heavy and sturdy as my Pioneer 320, similar to an LG 390. The disc tray is noisy and has an uneven speed that worries me it might be problematic over time. It does not shut with the authority or quality of the onkyo dv bd606 or denon dvd 2500btci. The unit itself is medium sized and fits nicely in a rack - similar in footprint to the pioneer 320.



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The remote is awful (pictured) DSCN0925.jpg- it has a bulbous end and few of the most used buttons (pop-up menu/disc menu) are in a logical place. I spent five minutes studying the layout to find most buttons. From this perspective, I can say it's not very intuitive or ergonomic. It does have a discrete on/off button.



The player is profile 2.0 with a LAN connection on the rear of the unit. The player can decode the lossless codecs, but lacks analogue outputs for older receivers. This is very disappointing for its price level - most $300 players have this ability.



Performance



Speed

The player is disappointing slow. It takes roughly 20 seconds to power on. Pressing eject when powered off takes a painful 19 seconds for the tray to open, venturing into Pioneer -slow territory. Menu response time is medium. I noticed in running it through synthetic tests it was on the slower side of players.



Disc load times were also on the slowish side. Casino Royale took 37 seconds, a second behind the Pioneer 320 and twice as slow as the JVC XV-BP1 or Oppo BDP83. Java discs like the Pirates of Carribbean were equally slow, reaching the disney splash screen in a minute flat (the $200 JVC can reach the same spot in 27 seconds).



BD Performance

BD at 1080P 24fps was excellent and on par with most other players.



SD DVD Performance

I had high hopes for the H/K in this segment and its results were a bit disappointing and very much mid-pack. It did well on synthetic tests with the usual film cadences, but struggled on video-based material, with noticeable jaggies in the speedometer test S&M offers. The video-based samples in the S&M test disc demonstrated its poor performance.



In real-world material, I would rate the performance mediocre. I prefer the Oppo, Pioneer 320, Denon 2500, and JVC to its image, but would say its overall sd dvd upscaling quality is adequate. That said, it is disappointing when you consider its $500 price tag.



Closing Thoughts

This player is priced about twice as much as its featureset and PQ offer. I cannot recommend this player at its current price point in an ever-completitive marketplace. The Pioneer 320 offers superior performance, analogue outputs, and better tweaking menus at $200 less. The JVC XV BP1 offers quicker performance, better sd dvd upconversion and is $300 less.


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 "Excellent blu-ray disc player" 2009-04-13
By Pablo Gomez (Santiago, Dominican Republic)
This blu ray player satisfies my needs, because I have an old Bose Lifestyle 12 wich doesn't accept optical nor DTS. With this specific Panasonic, I could connect the Bose with a digital coaxial cable with no problem.

The Blu-ray is excellent, charges the movies fast and has a very functional remote control.

The image is the best and it is a good investment


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 "great blu-ray player for older receivers!" 2009-03-13
By Anti-Climacus (waco, tx)
This is a great blu-ray player and the only one so far to play dvd-audio (now the Oppo does as well for 500 bones), so if that interests you then you are getting a two-for-one deal. This receiver does (contra previous reviews) decode Dolby TrueHD and DTS High Resolution, but not DTS-HD Master. Dolby TrueHD discs like The Dark Knight sound incredible, and of course if a disc has a lossless PCM file (like the first Hellboy or Cars) then this player will pass the lossless sound either over hdmi or the 7.1 analog outputs (this has been confirmed in several forums - the problem is that Panasonic techs do not know what they are talking about). Thus the 7.1 analog outputs are useful for getting the lossless sound of both bds and dvd-audios to older receivers like mine (the exception begin DTS-HD master like Hellboy 2). The picture is great, but the load time is a little slow. Once it gets going, however, the picture and sound are well worth it!

 "firmware updates are sloooooooow" 2009-01-20
By Tom the engineer (Colorado)
I have owned this product for approximately sixteen months. 'great sound, and picture; but a little slow to turn on and load a disk.



My unit shipped with version 2.3 firmware and recently needed a newer version in order to run newer bluray disks. I had to download from the Japanese website because the North American website did not have the latest version (2.5). The first download froze. The second attempt was going to take six hours so I terminated it. The third attempt took about an hour and a half. Everything went smoothly after this.

 "Misleading Panasonic..." 2008-12-05
By Blue Subie (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania United States)
... some might call it lying.



I called Panasonic after hours spent on my Yamaha AV receiver (RX-V863) and the BD10AK menus. The problem: I couldn't get my receiver to push Dolby True HD audio, only PCM or regular Dolby Digital through my 7.1 speakers. Although there are Dolby True HD stickers on the unit itself, the manual actually states that if the media has Dolby True HD or DTS-HD as its soundtrack, the BD-10AK will ONLY playback in Dolby Digital.



So which is true?



The result of the phone call: the BD-10AK does NOT push Dolby True HD, nor DTS-HD. This was straight from technician Curtis at Panasonic. So my Yamaha receiver will take the audio signal and try to push it as best as it can - hopefully converting it to True HD on the way out.



I had already loaded the firmware upgrade from the Panny website (pretty easy). Load times are OK (this is my first blu-ray player). The video is GORGEOUS from blu-ray discs - tested Iron man and the 1st Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Upconverted (up to 1080i) DVD playback is great - tested Ratatouille. Outside of some artifacts, I thought it looked better than playing it through my Yamaha DVD player.



One major reason I bought this 2-year old (since introduced to the general public) Panasonic BD player is its DVD-Audio playback; I have a small collection. It plays back in 5.1, and the newer models do NOT play DVD-A's.



Until I upgrade to a PS3 (or whatever Sony is pushing years from now), the BD10AK will do.



Upgrade to 4 stars due to its ability to play my Chinese DVDs.

 "Perfect" 2008-07-29
By Terry N. Monday Sr. (Tville, NC)
Own mine now for about a year. No problems and picture is awesome! Viewing on a 1080p Panasonic set. I did update the firmware a few months ago and it helped with loading some BD's. Note that some BD disc will be better quality than others. Not the players fault, just the way they compressed the videos.

 "Fantastic Blu-Ray Player" 2008-05-21
By Ivan P. Wiest (Robertsdale, AL)
The Panasonic DMP-BD10A is a high quality Blu-Ray player. Start up times (once the power button is hit to time disk tray will come out)are as fast as my upconvert DVD player...Much faster than the Sony BDP-S300 I use to own. Also the play times (time from when disk is put into player and see disk contents on the TV) are also just as fast as my upconvert DVD player. Picture quality is out of this world! Cannot comment on audio since I'm still using the speakers on my LCD. I wish I would have bought this player instead of my Sony Blu-ray to begin with. Panasonic certainly put a lot of thought and quality into this machine. My only gripe is the remote could have been better laid out, but really no big deal. Some have complained about the flip-down front panel, but I personally like it b/c it hides all the unsightly buttons one typically sees on Blu-ray players. The panel gives this player a handsome appearance. I highly recommend this Panasonic Blu-ray player!!


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 "The best picture and worth every penny." 2009-01-19
By Eric A. Kemsuzian (Buckeye Centre)
This item can be found for a steep discount(less than 475 usd). The quality and 5 year parts and labor warranty are the advantages of paying more than the minimum to get blue ray tech. Great engineering does not come cheap and Sony is the best engineering value in electronics for my money.

 "Don't make the mistake I did." 2008-11-15
By C. Young
First of all, let me say the video output of the S2000ES is first rate. However, for the price, it should be. It does a great job on both Blu-Ray and standard DVD's. I did, however, have to do a firm-ware update to get it to run some of the new Java menus. It is a slow machine both on boot-up and disc loading. Having said all of this, I still would have given it five stars. Here is the problem.

It does not decode DTS-Master Audio. They give you the impression that it does in the advertisements. The manual is written in such a vague way that you really can't tell what it can decode internally and send out over the analog connectors. Also, what it will send bit-stream over the HDMI connector. I had to call the company and even they had to do some research and get back to me. There is NO EXCUSE for this type of misleading information. When you buy the top of the line, you should get top of the line performance.

 "Sony ES BDPS2000ES 1080p Blu-Ray Disc Player" 2008-10-20
By Bruce Bryant (Ulysses, KS)
The high definition picture is a real delight and even startling the first time viewing it because of the quality. The player is very easy to use. I would highly recommend it. You will be extremely delighted espeaially when using a high quality large high definition monitor.

 "Good if it works!" 2008-05-08
By John (USA)
The picture quality of this player is outstanding. However, on first purchase it had some distortion in the sound of one channel, wouldn't load discs on occasion, and very slow. We sent it back, got it serviced.



We got the machine back and a couple months later it completely quit working. We returned it again and Sony sent us a refurbished unit. This one is starting to skip now when playing CDs.



Oh Well, Guess we'll try again. It's only a $1300 machine. :)

 "Do NOT buy this player ... yet!" 2008-02-01
By Home Theater is Fun (Philadelphia, PA USA)
This Blu-ray player does NOT have the latest surround sound ability (DTS HD Master Audio). As a home theater super-enthusiast, I am going to wait for the next generation from Sony that has the latest surround sound format.



Still a 5-star BR player, but I'm surprised Sony didn't add in the latest surround sound ability!


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 "Terrible Junk - long LOADING times - terrible" 2009-09-19
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.

 "Great Unit" 2009-05-21
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.

 "slow" 2009-05-19
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.

 "This Blu-ray Disc player meets all expectations" 2009-04-14
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.



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 "A brief opinion" 2009-04-06
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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HD 1080p at 24p / BD Live / SD Card Playback / Viera Link / 7.1 Channel Home Theater Decoding / Ethernet Port / Deep Color 16-Level Motion Detection with Pixel-Based Motion Adaptive Diagonal Processing Detection of 3 - 2/2 - 2 Pull-Down Progressive Processing Up-Conversion to 1080p Playback HDMI connection required. 1080/24p Playback (Blu-Ray disc) HDMI V.1.3 with Deep Color Reverse compatible to play virtually all DVD and CD media
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- Blu-ray Player
- BD Live/ 7.1 Audio codac
- SD Card slot
- HDMI 1080P 1.3b upconvert for all DVD's
- Slim Height/ Half mirror
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 "Outstanding Player" 2009-03-17
By J. White
I have had this for about 6 months and it is excellent. Panasonic provides excellent support via frequent firmware updates. The picture quality and sound quality are both excellent.

 "Great blue ray player, but I wonder if it's worth it" 2009-01-21
By Tom (Boston)
Simple to set up. Have it hooked up to my Pioneer Kuro 50" plasma and it looks beautiful. Slightly annoyingly long time to start up when you turn it on.



I just have this slightly nagging feeling that buying a blueray player was just a waste of money as compared to a regular DVD player or an AppleTV. Not sure if paying more for this one vs one of the cheaper blueray players was worth it either.

 "Panasonic DMP-850K 1080p Blu-Ray Disc Player" 2008-12-21
By Richard G. Ghiselin (Houston)
This player has outstanding audio and video quality. Unfortunately, in my opinion, the owner's manual was written for a total geek. The instructions for even the simplest function are so convoluted that they are virtually impossible to understand.



The Viera Link instructions are particularly difficult to follow, although one can gather that Viera Link is intended to simplefy thing. If it weren't for the owner's manual, I would rate this product five-atars.



I bought the Panasonic HD camcorder at the same time, and those instructions aren't much better. They give you these incredibly complex instructions on how to edit scenes and burn a DVD, but the things most people want to do is make a video of their grandkids. The basic instructions could be made much simpler. (Same comment for the Viera Link)

 "Blu-Ray Newbie" 2008-11-13
By Brock Anderson
I waited until all format BS subsided and for the new generation blu-rays to be released. The difference between blu-ray and regular dvds is not as big as the difference between HD and cable, but on this player there is a noticable improvement in the picture quality. One great surprise was the sound improvement. The sound quality will really blow you away!(I recommend the Matrix scene where Morpheus is rescued.)

The BD-50 is easy to set-up. I don't think I will utilize all the BD-Live capabilities, but downloading new firmware is a nice feature. Also, photographers will enjoy the HCSD slot. If you don't throw away all your regular dvds, I think the upconversion does make them look a little better. I know the BD-50 is more expensive, but you will be happy with the purchase!

 "Great Player but..." 2008-10-25
By Richard Hemphill (San Diego, CA)
The picture quality and sound on this player are excellent. My unit seems to have issues with the BD-Live feature. After numerous calls into Panasonic Tech Support, they were not able to solve the problem and it looks like I am going to have to send it in to the service center (on my own dime). This is the only trouble that I have had with the unit, the other features work like a charm.


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