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I purchased this player from the good reviews on Amazon, and the price. When I got the player I hooked it through my Denon AVR2807 receiver via HDMI. No screen. I changed HDMI cables, no screen. I changed to composit cable, got a screen, upgraded firmware to 2.0. Put HDMI cable back in, no screen, got error U73 on display. Went to AVSForums and there are several people that are having this issue. They also stated that Panasonic tech support was not very good. There is a 'handshake' problem with the Panasonic player and other HDMI receivers and switchers. If you are using this player directly connected to a TV, it would probably work. If you are using this player through an HDMI switching receiver, you may have problems. I did and returned.

This product is fantastic. The picture quality and features are more than I bargained for with a $ 200.00 blu ray player. The set-up was ridiculously easy and as long as you have the player hooked up to the internet it is easy to update.

The only thing that can be considered as a "con" is that there is no memory in the player; you have to buy an SD card. You aren't able to access the LIVE functions without it.

All-in-all, I am really satisfied with this player.

I looked for a long time before picking out this Blue Ray. I read dozens of reviews and after looking at them, I decided that this was the best I had seen for the money.
It proved to be right! The remote is very simple to use and the read time is extremely short. The response time of the machine is excellent and the picture is beautiful.
There is no problem if you have to pause or stop it, for it comes right back to where you left it.
For a person like myself who knows very little about these things, it is perfect. You can't go wrong.
Jim White.

I immediately ran into a technical difficulty the first time I hooked up this player to my receiver (Onkyo TX-SR604 with HDMI 1.1). I had the player hooked up through an HDMI switcher, XtremeMac HD. The receiver couldn't detect the signal. I hooked up the cable directly to the receiver. Again, the receiver couldn't detect the signal. Maybe I need a newer receiver that has HDMI 1.3 inputs, I don't know. This is an issue to consider for those who have TVs with only one HDMI input and one or more HDMI components (like XBOX 360, Tivo HD, etc). Thinking that perhaps I needed to update the firmware, I ran a update setup and found that I had version 1.1 and could update to 1.5. It took, maybe, about 3-4 minutes to update, using ethernet.


I was hoping that the update would fix the HDMI issue. But, it didn't. In any case, in worked perfectly fine when I hooked up the HDMI cable directly to my TV (Samsung PN-50A55 plasma) . I had to hook up a Toslink/Optical audio cable to the receiver for sound. Out of the box settings were fine for the most part--I tweaked the front light to be dimmer, set the resolution from "auto" to 1080p, set the 24p output to ON, and HDMI RGB output range to enhanced. I popped in a Blu Ray Disc (Sunshine) to test; It took around 40 second to get to the main menu. The quality is, as expected excellent and is better than 1080i HD TV broadcast (I have Comcast). I was actually surprised to find that the sound quality was amazing for both BR and DVD.

Now, what I was really concerned was how well it would upconvert DVD discs. I wanted it to be as good as my Oppo 981HD DVD player so I could sell it. I didn't want too many components. Panasonic upconversion is quite good but not as great as the Oppo. What I saw in Panasonic which I hadn't seen in the Oppo player was, 1) occasional jaggies in fast motion scenes, 2) the images were slightly softer and black levels could only be adjusted to high and low. That said, I was still very happy with the result and would have no problem giving up the Oppo player to minimize the setup.

Finally, I tried the Viera link option--currently available are YouTube, Picassa, Weather and Stock. I wasn't impressed. I have Tivo HD which has YouTube, Netflix, and more. Weather graphics were pretty amazing, though. But I really don't care for it.

All in all, I am pretty happy with it. I picked it over the new Samsung BD-P1600 because I read everywhere that the DVD upconversion was better. I am now kind of curious to try out the Samsung.

Hi. I am the polar opposite of a techie. I am completely new to HDTVs and Blu-Ray Discs. I bought this player because of the great reviews it received, and because of the AMAZING price.

I love it. The picture quality is excellent. Everything looks like it is in 3-D. The picture is so crisp and sharp and bright and simply amazing. I think it does a very nice job of upconverting regular, non-blu-ray DVDs.

Unfortunately for me, it does not eliminate the motion blur problem I have with my new Samsung HDTV (a TV that advertises its auto motion plus blur reduction feature!).

The load time took some getting used to. I'm very impatient, and will need to adjust to this. Are all blu-ray players like that? I have no idea.

I also hate that there is no open/close button on the player, only on the remote. If you're nearer the player, you have to back up and find the remote to get the disc out.

Overall, I'm very happy with it though and have already highly recommended it to friends.