Official Panasonic DMP-BD35/55 Owners Thread - Page 39

Originally Posted by Ken Ross

According to Sound & Vision, the BD55 powers up AND loads a BD disc in 15 seconds! Are you guys seeing that kind of load time??? Almost impossible to believe.

Originally Posted by marshallmedia

To Sourbeef: I think the question asked earlier which has yet gone unanswered was: on the BD35 (NOT the 55), can you go into the menu and change speaker output from 7.1 to 5.1 (for those of us with 5.1 HDMI receivers)? On the BD 55 you can... but can you do it on the 35? The concern is whether the BD 35 drops the two extra surrounds going into a 5.1 receiver (not a good thing) or does it fold them / mix them into the rear surrounds? Could someone power up a 35, check the menus, and give us a shout? Thanks!

Originally Posted by joerod

So as far as pic Q goes for Blu-ray playback is their not a difference between the 35 and 55?

Originally Posted by dinotoad

I am trying to get my 55 to connect to the internet.
I did install and format a 1G SD card, in case that helps.
I have the 55 connected direct via ethernet to my Linksys WRT-54. It fails to connect. I can plug a PC in and it connects fine. Any tips? I don't see why I should have to change any defaults. I have DHCP enabled and I have plenty of available addresses. I am not filtering via MAC addesss.
Any ideas?

Originally Posted by twwilliam

My router is one floor above my home theater system. I want the connection
for firmware updates, not necessarily for BD Live. Whether I run a LAN cable through the walls (virtually impossible) or temporarily down the stairs, the LAN cable run will be 40 feet. The temporary route would require me to down load updates manually.
Any suggestions how to avoid this.

Originally Posted by twwilliam

My router is one floor above my home theater system. I want the connection
for firmware updates, not necessarily for BD Live. Whether I run a LAN cable through the walls (virtually impossible) or temporarily down the stairs, the LAN cable run will be 40 feet. The temporary route would require me to down load updates manually.

Any suggestions how to avoid this.

Originally Posted by Islanti

In my setup these are active, which is consistent with the 6/7.1 reading on the receiver. I verified the output from the Surround and Back speakers were different.

Originally Posted by rover1

Islanti, I too have a Marantz SR7002 and when I send the Hi Def Codecs PCM my amp shows mutli channel 5.1 not 7.1, is there something I am doing wrong?

Originally Posted by boylan13

I have 4 components in the living room and another 3 in the basement that need an ethernet connection, 70-year-old construction with lathe and please walls make snaking through the walls a challenge. I opted for powerline networking from Corinex. Much faster than Wifi, it uses your house's power line for networking. You literally plug one adapter in at the router, and another end in at the component and it just works like a standard ethernet cable. 1 adapter becomes the master and the rest become slaves, so to split out my network to two additional rooms only required 3 adapters.

I then use simple (and cheap) network switches in the basement and living room to split this signal out to the various components. For the most part, this works perfectly, but the network switch in the basement has been a little flakier than the one in the living room. I was able to get the BD55 up and running upstairs using DHCP, but for downstairs I did have to assign a static IP address in the network set-up in order to get the connection to work. Not that difficult really, just pick an IP address within range of your router, set sub-net mask (usually 255.255.255.0), gateway (the router's IP address), and a primary and secondary DNS (available in your router's status screen) and I was in business. For anyone who can't get their HDCP network connection to work, try a static IP and you may have better luck.

But again, this was not a shortcoming of the BD55 as it worked fine with DHCP with a different network switch.

-CB

Originally Posted by Krayg

As another helpful member told me earlier, you have to turn the screensaver off. This will create black bars instead of gray. It says so right in the manual, which I neglected to thoroughly read

Originally Posted by Ken Ross

According to Sound & Vision, the BD55 powers up AND loads a BD disc in 15 seconds! Are you guys seeing that kind of load time??? Almost impossible to believe.

Originally Posted by jimim

Just a sidenote here also. I have a Marantz 8002 which is pretty much the same. I was setting up my levels via the avia test disk before. Something I noticed. If I set the panny 35 to bitstream vs PCM the channels levels are 4-5 db lower in PCM. They all remain balanced from channel to channel, but they are just lower across the board for PCM. Just a FYI if anyone thinks things sound a little lower with if they switch from BS to PCM.

Also. . . .I have a 5.1 setup anyone have a deff answer what is going on with Bitstreamed or PCM 7.1 content over a 5.1 setup (but the receiver is 7.1 capable). . . .is the info merged or is it deleted for the other 2 channels?

thanks,
jim

Originally Posted by slogun

I just connected my 35 to the internet via my WRT-54 last night.
It worked with default settings.
You went into SETUP and to the Network, Test Connection page on your 55?
You formatted the SD card, did you format it using the 55?

Also, try rebooting your router.

Originally Posted by boylan13

I have 4 components in the living room and another 3 in the basement that need an ethernet connection, 70-year-old construction with lathe and please walls make snaking through the walls a challenge. I opted for powerline networking from Corinex. Much faster than Wifi, it uses your house's power line for networking. You literally plug one adapter in at the router, and another end in at the component and it just works like a standard ethernet cable. 1 adapter becomes the master and the rest become slaves, so to split out my network to two additional rooms only required 3 adapters.

I then use simple (and cheap) network switches in the basement and living room to split this signal out to the various components. For the most part, this works perfectly, but the network switch in the basement has been a little flakier than the one in the living room. I was able to get the BD55 up and running upstairs using DHCP, but for downstairs I did have to assign a static IP address in the network set-up in order to get the connection to work. Not that difficult really, just pick an IP address within range of your router, set sub-net mask (usually 255.255.255.0), gateway (the router's IP address), and a primary and secondary DNS (available in your router's status screen) and I was in business. For anyone who can't get their HDCP network connection to work, try a static IP and you may have better luck.

But again, this was not a shortcoming of the BD55 as it worked fine with DHCP with a different network switch.

-CB

Originally Posted by dinotoad

The static IP worked for me. I don't know why DHCP did not work but I am up now.

Thanks!

Originally Posted by LarryChanin

Hi Peter,

I hope you are correct, but do you have a source other than the vaguely written note #4 on page 8 of the owner's manual to support your belief that the player matrixes dts-MA 5.1 content to 7.1?

Just as an interesting aside, if matrix decoding is used to extract surround back channels from the side surrounds, then wouldn't all four surround channels no longer be lossless, since the processing would have modified the original lossless side surrounds as well as creating the new lossy matrixed surround back channels? (I should add that personally I would prefer a matrixed approach, where the in-phase content is extracted from the sides and routed to the backs, rather than duplication, even if the sides were rendered no longer lossless.)

Originally Posted by aaronwt

My BD35 is still not connecting. On Transformers it downloads. On the Starship Troopers it downloads ebough to show the BD Live menu, but the content is missing that shouldbe on that page and in the top left it says "BD LIve disconnected"
It's definitely downloading something, just not everything it should. the same discs are working on the PS3. I guess I'm going to have to go and exhcange my BD35 at Circuit City. that's what I get, I usually have problems from the products I get at Circuit City for some reason.

Originally Posted by 6SpeedTA95

When do you guys think we'll start seeing the 35 with some reasonable discounts? IE in the 250 to 265 range and/or with a title or two?

Originally Posted by Brandito

anyone who has bought a bd35 quite recently gotten in on the 2 free movies?

http://www.panasonicsleepingbeauty.com/

that's the site, but it seems to either be down, or gone altogether.

i was really hoping to get a couple free movies since BD's are god awful expensive and nightmare before christmas is a classic.

Originally Posted by NMJack

The 35 is already selling for $2xx through the EPP program (an employer discount program that many of us have through our workplace). You need to visit the pricing thread, as that is the only place pricing should be discussed.

Originally Posted by slogun

I'm in! I hope they come.
Nightmare is also good as a rare example of 7.1 sound!