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I now own two of these Panasonic DMP-BD Blu-ray disc players. They are high quality units with an amazing amount of conectivity options, and compatability (CD, CDR, CDRW, DVD, BluRay) especially for their thin profile design. Nothing is more frustrating than a new HDTV or media player that only provides 1 HDMI or Digital Optial Audio as the only connectivity option. This unit has everything from RCA connecions up to HDMI, Cat5/RG45 ethernet connection and a USB port. You can use this unit with any TV or stereo / multimeadia system made after 1990 up to today's latest technology.
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This player does well, but if the disc has any scratches on it, it will skip or may not play. honestly save your money on any blu-ray player. On most movies the picture is unscaled and not true hd anyway. you will not notice a lot of difference between most blu-ray movies and standard up converted movies on a good DVD player. Don't get me wrong their is some very good HD content out there, but not quite enough. The sound effects on the other hand is a substantially better on blu-ray of you have a nack for true digital sound, but I had to manually increase the dialog volume on my player because the sound effects were much louder than the person talking. I found myself turning up the tv to here them talk, then turning it down during a high action scene. I hope this review was helpful on your purchase on a blu-ray player. Panasonic is one of the best to me though.Read full review
The Panasonic DMP-BD35 Blu-Ray player is an older model player available through ebay and other sources. Though an older design, it provides many great features including the ability to play audio and video from compact data cards and thumb drives. Image quality is excellent and DVDs are converted to 1080p with very good quality. Sometimes DVDs look almost as good as Blu-Ray. Of course, CDs are also handled with great audio quality. Outputs include composite, component, HDMI and for audio, analog and fiber (HDMI also includes audio and should be used for the highest quality lossless audio with home theater). Features include repeat play and still and slow motion functions. One downside to the player is it's relatively slow power-up which takes about 15 seconds from a cold start (not a big issue for me). For the price, this player is hard to beat.Read full review
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I researched BluRay players for a while, and almost bought a PS3 based on rave reviews. Since BluRay players have come down in price significantly, the PS3 isn't the value it once was unless you definately play PS3 games.. I just don't have that kind of time anymore.. This Panasonic BD35 has received consistently high reviews from all sites. I have to say, those reviews are right. I hooked up my standard progressive scan Panasonic DVD player and this BluRay player to my Panasonic AX200u projector and threw Kung fu Panda into the regular DVD player and displayed it on my 106" projection screen. It just looked OK comming from the standard DVD player via component cables and stretched to 106". It looked much better on my 42" plasma on standard DVD. Next I put the same standard DVD into the BD35 BluRay player connected to the same projector over HDMI and the upconversion is really amazing. Honestly I was expecting to really have to look hard to tell if there was a difference between the two since I have a decent standard DVD player, since many forums say that upconversion is just a sales tactic or doens't do much for video quality at all, but I knew at first glance the BD35 had significantly better video quality. The colors were significantly better and brighter, but most importantly, the jaggy edges and other artifacts had almost disappeared. The picutre was much smother and more detailed from the BD35. I did the same test with a few other standard DVD's like Twilight, Tombstone, Lord of the Rings, and same result.. I easily noticed a better, crisper, and more detailed image through the BD35. To my suprise, there is a very large difference between playing standard DVD's on a regular player and this upconverting BD35. It's still not the quality of a BluRay image I've seen at a few of my friends houses, but it's way better than standard DVD player playback, especially on a large 106" display. Knowing how good the upconverted DVD's look, I can't wait to see what a BluRay looks like. I would say the upconverted video quality is so good, that I don't feel the need to replace any of my standard DVD's with BluRay discs (of course I might change my mind after I rent a BluRay disc this weekend). I will likely consider purchasing BluRay's for select movies that are my favorites as the BluRay disc prices continue to drop, but seriously... the upconverted standard DVD's look really great. Unless you are very knit-picky about your video quality, you won't mind the difference between upconverted DVD and a BluRay disc, especially on smaller displays (42" or less) or on TV's that don't have 1080p native output. Great player... and at the refurb prices on Ebay this thing is a steal. Got my refurb for $157.00 shipped.. about what I would pay for a non BluRay upconverting DVD player... now I have both.. BluRay capability and DVD upconversion.. :)Read full review
Picture and sound quality is exceptional Even though quite a bit older it's easily comparable to or better than most newer ones.
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