This new player just announced at 2012 CES looks really nice. I have a Bryston SP1.7 pre-pro which does not have HDMI & of course does not decode the latest
surround formats. Rather than turf a really good quality pre pro I can go through the BDT500 7.1 analog inputs. There are other players out there that do similar but they can get pricey. Curious to see what this retails for.
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Originally Posted by Selden Ball /t/1386539/panasonic-dmp-bdt500/750#post_22265380
tpollagi,
Too often, what is "supposed to be" and "what is" are not the same
Note that what you did was change the size of the primary partition. You did not change the capacity of the drive. To change the drive itself, you'd have to disassemble it and remove platters.
You need to try a drive which has a maximum physical capacity of 2GB or less.
Applause for .flac music files on external 2.5" USB HDD drives with Panasonic DMP BDT500 player!
Just got my 2nd external 2.5" USB HDD drive. A WD "My Passport" 500GB unit that comes formatted as NTFS.
Currently $70 (plus tax) from my local Costco. They also carry Seagate (1TB and bigger) but my homework suggested to avoid those even though the price was peanuts more.
Anyhow, using with a Panasonic DMP BDT500 player. So far mostly with stereo redbook .flac files; but also with a few 24/96 5.1 hi-rez .flac files.
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Originally Posted by OtherSongs /t/1386539/panasonic-dmp-bdt500/750#post_22272573
Applause for .flac music files on external 2.5" USB HDD drives with Panasonic DMP BDT500 player!
Just got my 2nd external 2.5" USB HDD drive. A WD "My Passport" 500GB unit that comes formatted as NTFS.
Currently $70 (plus tax) from my local Costco. They also carry Seagate (1TB and bigger) but my homework suggested to avoid those even though the price was peanuts more.
Anyhow, using with a Panasonic DMP BDT500 player. So far mostly with stereo redbook .flac files; but also with a few 24/96 5.1 hi-rez .flac files.
What are your settings to get .FLAC files to play?
I've owned this unit since May and have yet to get .FLAC files to play from a 1TB and 1.5TB USB HDD. I have 2 other transports that play .FLAC from these drives with no prblem.
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Originally Posted by bakerwi /t/1386539/panasonic-dmp-bdt500/720_60#post_22275370
What are your settings to get .FLAC files to play?
I've owned this unit since May and have yet to get .FLAC files to play from a 1TB and 1.5TB USB HDD. I have 2 other transports that play .FLAC from these drives with no prblem.
Odd to me that you of all people in this thread would ask this.
Just from your own recent posts in this thread, you're pretty knowledgeable on hardware, and appear to have a recent Sony 790 and OPPO 93.
FWIW I agree with others in this thread who've said something like: "the Panasonic 500 manual sucks BIGTIME!"
For the moment I'm actually enjoying USB HDD redbook stereo (in the background) on this player. Give me a few hours and I'll post my main settings, audio and otherwise.
Likely something so obvious that it'll bite you when you finally find it!
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Originally Posted by bakerwi /t/1386539/panasonic-dmp-bdt500/720_60#post_22275370
What are your settings to get .FLAC files to play?
I've owned this unit since May and have yet to get .FLAC files to play from a 1TB and 1.5TB USB HDD. I have 2 other transports that play .FLAC from these drives with no prblem.
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Originally Posted by OtherSongs /t/1386539/panasonic-dmp-bdt500/780#post_22275995
Odd to me that you of all people in this thread would ask this.
Just from your own recent posts in this thread, you're pretty knowledgeable on hardware, and appear to have a recent Sony 790 and OPPO 93.
FWIW I agree with others in this thread who've said something like: "the Panasonic 500 manual sucks BIGTIME!"
For the moment I'm actually enjoying USB HDD redbook stereo (in the background) on this player. Give me a few hours and I'll post my main settings, audio and otherwise.
Likely something so obvious that it'll bite you when you finally find it!
I wish it was something as simple as reformatting to the proper partition, but both drives are NTFS. This unit is in my bedroom, but part of the appeal of this player was having another in the house that could play .FLAC files if needed.
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Originally Posted by bakerwi /t/1386539/panasonic-dmp-bdt500/780_60#post_22276607
I wish it was something as simple as reformatting to the proper partition, but both drives are NTFS. This unit is in my bedroom, but part of the appeal of this player was having another in the house that could play .FLAC files if needed.
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Originally Posted by bakerwi /t/1386539/panasonic-dmp-bdt500/780_60#post_22276607
I wish it was something as simple as reformatting to the proper partition, but both drives are NTFS. This unit is in my bedroom, but part of the appeal of this player was having another in the house that could play .FLAC files if needed.
FWIW I have 2 different 500GB external USB HDD units both very new, one by Hitachi and newest one by WD, both USB3 capable but also compatible with USB2, and both work with my new Panasonic 500 player for playback of .flac music files.
The slightly older Hitachi has an odd partition setup (done by me), with half of it FAT32 and half of it NTFS. The player sees the NTFS partition without any problem.
When you turn the player on (with the USB HDD already plugged in), you do press the right arrow button to get into the "play music" option?
So far very impressed. PQ seems a bit better then the Pana 310 it replaced. Only problematic thing I've come across so far is loading video files off NAS servers. Panasonic has some work to do with that code/firmware.
Kinda disappointed in the MKV playback performance. A backed up version of a bluray I have here, about 15GB , DTS encoded, works perfect on everything else in the house (popcorn hour, VLC from the HTPC running on a slow i3 with integrated graphics)
All are being fed directly from a very fast ReadyNas Ultra Plus, everything is hard wired cat 6, running all enterprise drives, and sustained transfer OVER 90MBPS
I have the player setup in wired mode (tried wireless also).
To eliminate any guess about wiring, I put the NAS on the same exact switch as the Panasonic BDT500, 6 feet away.
It will skip every minute . . . . . very mad.
I went specifically with this player over the 220, for the better cpu, to handle these MKVs (thats what panasonic told me).
I think Panasonic has some work to do on the NAS feeding the player video files code.
I too have several media players that play files that are stored on several NAS drives. All play flawlessly except the 500. I'm not returning it as everything else is outstanding. I don't plan to use it as my NAS video files playback device. But I still want it to work properly. Something isn't right.
My 60 dollar PIVOS AIOS can playback files off my NAS drives just fine. Bluray ISO's, AVI, MKV, MP4, etc. Can't do 3D as its an 1185 chipset. But everything else.
If a 60 dollar Realtek based device can handle mkv's, etc., over a network there is no reason the 500 can't.
Hopefully the network playback stuff will move up the priority list as other things get ironed out in its firmware.
My Netflix worked great. VUDU, etc., bluray playback is outstanding. DVD tremendous. Even did 2d to 3d "trick" with The Office streaming with Netflix. Looked great. Only secret with Netflix stuff is to load the tv show then turn on the 2d to 3d option. The Netflix front menu loses its mind on the 2d to 3d option.
Some of the English in the menus/sub menus isn't correct. Expect the unit to get dialed in over next months and a couple of more firmware releases.
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Originally Posted by jsmiddleton4 /t/1386539/panasonic-dmp-bdt500/780#post_22277309
I think Panasonic has some work to do on the NAS feeding the player video files code.
I too have several media players that play files that are stored on several NAS drives. All play flawlessly except the 500. I'm not returning it as everything else is outstanding. I don't plan to use it as my NAS video files playback device. But I still want it to work properly. Something isn't right.
My 60 dollar PIVOS AIOS can playback files off my NAS drives just fine. Bluray ISO's, AVI, MKV, MP4, etc. Can't do 3D as its an 1185 chipset. But everything else.
If a 60 dollar Realtek based device can handle mkv's, etc., over a network there is no reason the 500 can't.
Hopefully the network playback stuff will move up the priority list as other things get ironed out in its firmware.
My Netflix worked great. VUDU, etc., bluray playback is outstanding. DVD tremendous. Even did 2d to 3d "trick" with The Office streaming with Netflix. Looked great. Only secret with Netflix stuff is to load the tv show then turn on the 2d to 3d option. The Netflix front menu loses its mind on the 2d to 3d option.
Some of the English in the menus/sub menus isn't correct. Expect the unit to get dialed in over next months and a couple of more firmware releases.
I love the 3d performance, disc performance, look, styling, but 1/2 the reason I got this over the 220 or even other brands was for the MKV playback. I have all the discs 20 feet away, but what a pain to go back and forth when the feature is highly advertised . .
I've had positive experience with Panasonic support. The only thing that really matters to Panasonic is if they can reproduce the issue. In general the volume of complaints does not make them do anything faster or sooner.
Sending them an email with the right kind of information that allows Panasonic to duplicate the problem is what folks need to do. If they can duplicate it, Panasonic will put it on their "to do list". How fast they get to items on that list is up to them.
I've looked in the manual, imagine that, and do not see what the image size needs to be for the image file if we want to use a user photograph to customize the background.
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Originally Posted by OtherSongs /t/1386539/panasonic-dmp-bdt500/780#post_22276793
FWIW I have 2 different 500GB external USB HDD units both very new, one by Hitachi and newest one by WD, both USB3 capable but also compatible with USB2, and both work with my new Panasonic 500 player for playback of .flac music files.
The slightly older Hitachi has an odd partition setup (done by me), with half of it FAT32 and half of it NTFS. The player sees the NTFS partition without any problem.
When you turn the player on (with the USB HDD already plugged in), you do press the right arrow button to get into the "play music" option?
Well, I spent about 20 minutes Saturday with a Panasonic rep and he couldn't figure out the problem. He stated that it is not a setup problem, so the issue has been escalated and I am waiting for a call back from the next level of support.
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Originally Posted by ti-triodes /t/1386539/panasonic-dmp-bdt500/750#post_22263932
Have you checked to see if HDMI output has been turned on? Is the HDMI SUB setting properly set up? One's in the Audio setup and the other is in the Video setup.
And in case you were wondering, yes, setting up a Panny is confusing!
The reason the the HDMI SUB setting seems confusing at first is because the way Panasonic sees it, you are either turning the video On or OFF. Therefore the 500's manual has it under video settings. You want the video off if your AVR isn't 3D ready. However, you don't need audio coming out of your out other HDMI AV OUT (MAIN) connected to your TV, do you? I sure don't. So, you set HDMI AUDIO to OFF. Even if it is set to ON, you still may not hear audio from your TV speakers. Why not? Sony Bravia TVs, for instance, have a setting that allows you to switch between your AVR or receiver, and your TV speakers. If it's set to AVR you block the audio right there from ever being sent to your TV speakers.
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Originally Posted by unijabass /t/1386539/panasonic-dmp-bdt500/750#post_22264113
Thanks for your respond!
I set HDMI(SUB) to V.OFF, and HDMI Audio Output to on, scratching my head.
Your HDMI (SUB) setting is correct. Your HDMI AUDIO needs to be OFF unless of course you want to hear the audio through your TV speakers. I don't about you, but I paid dearly for my HT audio system. I sure don't want to degrade that sound with sound coming from my TV's speakers. IOW, when you set HDMI AUDIO to off it doesn't turn off the audio from your HDMI SUB terminal. So just remember both these setting, though confusing at first do two entirely different things. One turns off the video going to your AVR (HDMI AV OUT SUB) and the other turns off the audio going to your TV (HDMI AV OUT MAIN).
Hey, believe me, I was confused at first. But, after thinking about a bit more, it makes perfectly good sense.
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Originally Posted by bakerwi /t/1386539/panasonic-dmp-bdt500/780_60#post_22284101
Well, I spent about 20 minutes Saturday with a Panasonic rep and he couldn't figure out the problem. He stated that it is not a setup problem, so the issue has been escalated and I am waiting for a call back from the next level of support.
its going to be a long wait,. I had dealing with panasonic. they are very slow on responding. if you have not heard from them in a week. I would call again and see if anything is going on.
Hi all. I'm still on the fence about which player to buy, Sony s790 or the Panasonic bdt500. What I would like to know is there any specific reason to buy one over the other? BTW for anyone out there like me who is ready to make a perches right now Amazon has the Sony S790 for $228 with free Hulu Plus for thee months you have to go to the Sony website for all the info. The Panasonic BDT500 is listed at $244. Any help will do so I can just go a head a press the damn add to cart icon all ready rolleyes.gif
TIA: Menace
PS: Also wanted to add I will be upgrading if you can call it that, from a PS3 first gen 60gig, will there be a visual difference as I know there will be a audio one. My display is a Panasonic 65VT30 with a Onkyo tx-nr3007 providing the sound.
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