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Panasonic DMP-BD35EB-K Profile 2 Blu-ray Disc Player with BD Live
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(4.5 out of 5)
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Noisy player, great picture
(3 out of 5) by Mr. P. Furlong on Feb 26, 2009 (London)Obvioulsly for the price, there cannot be too much to complain about. Picture clarity does depend on your TV also.
I found the player to be a good one, and easy to set up. The BD pictures are balanced and crisp, the sound through my speaker system is also excellent (although the AV sound system does not decode HD Sound signals as yet).
There are however downsides to this player. It is an excrutiatingly long wait for the player to turn on, load up and open up the disc drawer. I cannot fathom why! It is not like there is a Windows xp operating system to load? Also, I have found that for some reason, DVD discs are very noisy in the player. You can really here them spinning from across the room. However BD discs are absolutely fine. Strange, but I thought i should report it.
Overall, the price, and features at that price are excellent; just slow and noisy seems so to spoil the experience.
I found the player to be a good one, and easy to set up. The BD pictures are balanced and crisp, the sound through my speaker system is also excellent (although the AV sound system does not decode HD Sound signals as yet).
There are however downsides to this player. It is an excrutiatingly long wait for the player to turn on, load up and open up the disc drawer. I cannot fathom why! It is not like there is a Windows xp operating system to load? Also, I have found that for some reason, DVD discs are very noisy in the player. You can really here them spinning from across the room. However BD discs are absolutely fine. Strange, but I thought i should report it.
Overall, the price, and features at that price are excellent; just slow and noisy seems so to spoil the experience.
130 of 134 people found the following review helpful:
Great!
(5 out of 5) by av-man on Nov 5, 2008 (Elstree)Received this a few days ago - normal excellent service from Amazon - and I'm delighted.
This player is easy to set up, Blu-ray pictures are superb (and my TV is HD-ready, not full-HD), and the HD sound is fabulous.
But the big and very welcome surprise to me is just how good this Panasonic plays standard DVDs. The quality is at least as good as my reference £900 Yamaha dedicated DVD player. Highly recommended.
This player is easy to set up, Blu-ray pictures are superb (and my TV is HD-ready, not full-HD), and the HD sound is fabulous.
But the big and very welcome surprise to me is just how good this Panasonic plays standard DVDs. The quality is at least as good as my reference £900 Yamaha dedicated DVD player. Highly recommended.
81 of 84 people found the following review helpful:
A Panasonic Wonder with Profile 2 and Upscaling
(5 out of 5) by Tellboy on Nov 8, 2008 (Manchester)Purchased to match a Panasonic 1080p Television after reading many reviews.
Consider connecting through HDMI not Component Video to utilise all the features. As usual these days a HDML lead is not included. The HDMI lead recommended by Amazon as a package is the one to get as some HDMI leads are wired differently and the Panasonic Viera Link will not work (my original didnt).
Profile 2 means you can connect to the Internet to do Firmware updates as new features are added.
As regarding Upscaling (rendering ordinary DVD to a higher quality if possible) the manual is a bit confusing as the default condition assumes connection by Component Video and you need to find the right menu to change this if using the superior HDMI connection.
The US import version of the BBC Planet Earth I am told is 1080p rather than 1080i if your TV supports the higher format whereas most UK Blu Ray discs are not yet showing the full potential of Blu Ray.
After watching full 1080p for a while and switching back to ordinary Freeview TV really emphasises the quality of this product.
Consider connecting through HDMI not Component Video to utilise all the features. As usual these days a HDML lead is not included. The HDMI lead recommended by Amazon as a package is the one to get as some HDMI leads are wired differently and the Panasonic Viera Link will not work (my original didnt).
Profile 2 means you can connect to the Internet to do Firmware updates as new features are added.
As regarding Upscaling (rendering ordinary DVD to a higher quality if possible) the manual is a bit confusing as the default condition assumes connection by Component Video and you need to find the right menu to change this if using the superior HDMI connection.
The US import version of the BBC Planet Earth I am told is 1080p rather than 1080i if your TV supports the higher format whereas most UK Blu Ray discs are not yet showing the full potential of Blu Ray.
After watching full 1080p for a while and switching back to ordinary Freeview TV really emphasises the quality of this product.
46 of 48 people found the following review helpful:
If you are looking for dedicated player than PS3 than this is the one for you
(5 out of 5) by R. A. Qureshi on Nov 16, 2008 (London, UK)Got this great player last week, I was using PS3 before for Blu Ray only and I was not happy with sound quality... So I bought this player and found huge difference!
In PS3, it was restricted in Picture and Sound settings, you can now play around as you can in dedicate player. Now I can set them as I want and pass... sound in Bitstream to my amplifier to get maximum output.
About this player, it's easy to setup, crisp picture, better colours and excellent sound output.
I already mentioned about sound. Huge difference (if you have surround system). Also you can use onboard processor to HD Audio Decoding if your amplifier doesn't support them. Works flawlessly!
BD Live, Profile 2.0, SD Card, Divx, MP3 and online updates are great to have them.
Note: playing divx (on CD/DVD-+RW) is bit tricky on this player. I hope they will fix this issue with firmware update soon.
Audio CD and SD DVD quality is also awesome.
Easy to make it multiregion by using remote codes.
In nutshell it's an excellent player!
In PS3, it was restricted in Picture and Sound settings, you can now play around as you can in dedicate player. Now I can set them as I want and pass... sound in Bitstream to my amplifier to get maximum output.
About this player, it's easy to setup, crisp picture, better colours and excellent sound output.
I already mentioned about sound. Huge difference (if you have surround system). Also you can use onboard processor to HD Audio Decoding if your amplifier doesn't support them. Works flawlessly!
BD Live, Profile 2.0, SD Card, Divx, MP3 and online updates are great to have them.
Note: playing divx (on CD/DVD-+RW) is bit tricky on this player. I hope they will fix this issue with firmware update soon.
Audio CD and SD DVD quality is also awesome.
Easy to make it multiregion by using remote codes.
In nutshell it's an excellent player!
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
Far better than the PS3!!
(5 out of 5) by M. Eayres on Jan 9, 2009 (UK)When I bought this I did wonder whether I had wasted my money as I already have a PS3 and was pretty impressed by its Blu Ray performance. But I wanted to get that elusive True HD Audio, which seems to be virtually impossible from the PS3. So I bought this Blu Ray Player, but what I received was far better than anything the PS3 could reproduce.
The picture quality is superb and the audio is truly excellent, I really could not believe how much better this is compared to the PS3! And from such a slimline unit as well.
So now I certainly do not feel I have wasted my money at all, in fact I think is probably one of the best value for money purchases I have made in a long while.
So if you are umm-ing and arr-ing whether you should fork out for this when you already have a PS3 then I would definately say get it you won't regret it. And if you do not already have a Blu-Ray player, then I do not believe you will find a better player below £200.
The picture quality is superb and the audio is truly excellent, I really could not believe how much better this is compared to the PS3! And from such a slimline unit as well.
So now I certainly do not feel I have wasted my money at all, in fact I think is probably one of the best value for money purchases I have made in a long while.
So if you are umm-ing and arr-ing whether you should fork out for this when you already have a PS3 then I would definately say get it you won't regret it. And if you do not already have a Blu-Ray player, then I do not believe you will find a better player below £200.