Panasonic DVD-S38PP Multi Code Region Free DVD Player - BombayElectronics.com Tube. Duration : 1.68 Mins.
Best DVD player ever + easy to install Panasonic DVD-S68 HDMI 1080P Up-Converting All Multi Region Code Zone Free PAL/NTSC DVD Player. Plays DVDs from all Regions: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 PAL NTSC RCE REA on ANY TV. FULL HD CONVERSION, USB Playback and REC for Music work well as expected
It is awesome. I enjoy the blu-ry 3D compatability with my TV. being able to set the output to the checker board format for my Mitsubishi enabled me to get 3D without buying the expensive kit. This has been my favorite purchase of the year. I bought it mainly for it's media programs (youtube, netflix, etc.) and I have to say I'm freaking impressed. It loads DVDs almost immediately and it does upgrade everything to HD quality, which I'm in love with. I never knew my tv could show images so clearly until i got this. I don't know what else I can say about this except this has got to be the best blu ray player of the year and Amazon has it at the cheapest price available. It also upgrade firmware regularly so if it's missing any media programs it'll probably have somewhere in the near future. The only thing I wish it had is a slot loading drive, but it's not even all that serious to me so I really don't care 5 stars!
The Best Portable DVD Player, Out Of Several!! Panasonic DVD-LS86 8.5-Inch Portable DVD Player Review by J. Johnson "BelieverBob" (Columbia, SC) Panasonic DVD-LS86 8.5-Inch Portable DVD Player (Electronics)
I have had several of these over the years and this one is, by far, the absolute best of the bunch. Outstanding screen picture, clear, crisp, great colors. The surround sound is superb (although using the enhanced bass setting is just too much bass). Does not last the 13 hours per. the company's claim but still the longest in the entire group- around 8 to 9 hours, enough for FOUR MOVIES, the longest. Can't recommend this one enough, love it, great for travel or home use.
Great Player for the new model year 2011 : The player is great. The menu system is the best I've used in a player and I returned both a Sony BD560 and a Samsung 6500 before getting this unit. Just a few notes for those that might be thinking of getting it this player.
#1 The internet options are extensive, new options to me like Amazon streaming and Skype, mixed with the mainstay apps like Netflix, Pandora, and many more. make this player very attractive to the streaming and online entertainment user.
#2 The firmware the unit currently ships with will not let you get into the Internet streaming apps or anything for that matter until you update the firmware. Updating the firmware from the 1.09 firmware it ships with will not work as of this date via wireless or wired internet connections. The secondary option is to burn the frmware to a disc. This you think would be straight foward, but it isn't. Using Windows 7 or Vista, you MUST create an ISO 9660 ONLY... I went through 3 coasters before this player could properly read the Firmware update disc I created to bring it up to 1.47. Using any other ISO format will fail.
#3, Netflix... I have 2 accounts, one old, one new and active. Got them mixed up during the install process and had my OLD netflix account essentially bound to the unit. No way to empty the cache, or sign-out and login with a new username and password (It doesn't use the code on screen method like a lot of players, you actually log into netflix from the machine) To wipe out the incorrect netflix ID, I had to factory reset the Blu-Ray player. Which meant setting everything up again. My shared drives (You can map a shared folder on your network to play files, very nice) Wireless, everything had to be set up again.
#4 No on board memory. It supports SD cards for Storage for Blu Ray online features and other apps, but it has no storage of its own. I personally found this to be nice, especially given I have many SD cards laying around from 1 to 8 gigs in size. But if you want to take full advantage of extras on Blue Rays, add the cost of an SD card to your price (Or possibly USB thumb drive??? haven't tested) in order to have on-board storage.
This player is fast, has an outstanding menu system. A very reliable network interface (Take note Samsung!) and has some nice next-gen features such as touch-less ejecting, kind of novel, but I did find myself liking it.... having come from the Samsung 6500 just recently, I found the fact that the player keeps you informed with on screen displays as to what it is doing if their are the common loading delays when first starting Blu-Rays for instance, a very nice change from the black of screen of questioning I always had with the Samsung model. And Sony's 560 had a very lame netflix interface so that wasn't an option for me after seeing it, given I use streaming a LOT.
For the 2011 models, I'd like to see the offerings from the competitors before I whole heartily recommend this one, but I'm very happy with my purchase. Panasonic seems to know what they are doing with UI's, UI user Feedback and general tech savyness in their Blu-Ray players. (aside from the current Firmware glitch)
