Panasonic DMP-BD35K 1080p Blu-ray Player with Bonus HDMI CableFrom Panasonic DMP-BD35K
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My entry into BluRay
Panasonic DMP-BD35K 1080p Blu-ray Player I have two high-definition televisions and I finally jumped into blu-ray with this DVD player. Set-up was easy with the HDMI cable. It does take a little time to process commands. Open or Close, for example, each take maybe 10 seconds. When I play a blu-ray disc, to be honest, I can hardly tell the difference compared to my older, upconverting non-blu-ray DVD player. Plus, although my television has 16/9 aspect ratio, all the blu-ray discs I've played so far appear on screen letter-boxed, with black bands horizontally on the top and bottom. I guess that's to be expected, -that movie screens are still wider than modern, wide-format televisions. That has nothing to do with this Panasonic DVD player in particular. The only thing that disappoints me with the Panasonic is, with quite a few films, when I Stop a movie and turn off the player, and come back later to watch the rest of the film, it will not Resume play where it left off. I hate gadgets that require a learning curve, but I studied the manual and evidently, for a certain category of blu-ray discs, this feature is simply unavailable or inaccessible. This was the case with the recent Bruce Willis movie _Live Free or Die Hard_, so this isn't just a problem with off-the-wall films. There's nothing like having to wait through the F.B.I. warnings again and Skip through the Previews and then 12 Chapters to get to where you left off! Very annoying. One other little complaint is when I'm not using my home theater set-up, but listening to the soundtrack through my television's speakers, the blu-ray player makes my t.v. speakers hum or buzz, which gets louder in proportion to the t.v.'s volume. I should try different ways to connect the t.v., blu-ray player, and receiver to see if I can make the hum go away, but it's a lot of trouble to climb back behind the t.v. and unplug things and try differently methods. So, all in all, I'll give the blu-ray player 4 stars, as it seems to do everything it's supposed to, but I'm giving blu-ray itself 3 stars, and that's being generous. I'm not big on watching Special Features after my wife and I watch a film, so I should probably have saved my money and stuck with my ordinary (upconverting) DVD player.
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Consumer Electronics
Brand: Panasonic DMP-BD35K
By : kl8erjoke
