Official Panasonic DMP-BD35/55 Owners Thread - Page 388

I have a DMP-BD55 connected to a Sony KV-32HS420 WEGA HDTV via component cables. I cannot figure out how to watch 4:3 material without stretching? Can anyone help out with this?

Thanks,

Mike

Make sure the Aspect Ratio on the BD55 is set to 16:9 instead of 16:9 Full.

Is it me or the BD-35 has some what high black level.
When I pause on a black frame or mute the picture on my pj I see higher black compared to my PS3 as well as other boxes that I am using. A major issue imo this is.

I don't notice it but then again I don't pause alot,you might try adjusting the brightness on your PJ.
If it occurs on every disc then adjust the picture controls(Display button>Video>User).
BTW:what's "mute the picture"?

Thanks!! That worked great!!

Mike

Any chance you are using the component output of the B35 ? If so then make sure you have set the black level control to Darker (see page 31 of the owners manual) mine was defaulted to Lighter for some reason. I noticed a very large difference on 2 identical tv's when feeding them simultaneously from my BD35, 1 hdmi the other component, similar to what you describe. The Darker setting cured it.

I completely forgot about that.
Yeah darker for component and lighter for composite,if you use HDMI>DVI then select Enhanced RGB.

Go to the calibration thread and make yourself a DVD that well get all your levels spot on. It's fun. It's easy. It's free.

I just picked a sling link power ethernet adapter, and plugged one half in by my router and the other half by my BD55. The lights light up, but for some reason the BD55 isn't recognizing the connection. Do I have to change the router settings?

Not sure where to post this question. I have a Panasonic DMP-BD55 connected to an Integra DHC9.9 via HDMI. It has worked flawlessly until now. Today when I tried to view a blueray disc, I get no sound at all, but do get video. The processor automatically goes to Full Mono and if I try to change the surround settings it flashes not available and returns to full mono. I put a CD in the player and it plays perfectly and sound is heard. Is this the Panny or the Integra? Any suggestions as to what to do. Thanks in advance.

I bought a BD35 used and it came with no remote. I easily downloaded the correct menus to my Logitech Universal remote but the reason I bought this was to mod it to be blu-ray region free and the mod I have requires that I select the region (A,B,C) using the buttons labeled the same way on the original remote. These buttons are said to control Java applications for BD-J discs.

Does anyone know if one can do this from a Universal Remote?

Otherwise, how can I secure an original one?

Thanks much,

Bruce

Get on the Menu and run a Reset. If it's the player, it could clear it up. Resets seem to clear up alot of weird things along these lines.

Hey Thanks for the tip, I will try it. But I kind of doubt that it will beat the discrete way with full resolution.

Happy Easter Gary,

Bob

Now you just teach me few things here BIslander (3 actually) from only one of my post. Unbelievable!
Thank you very much so, for putting me up to date with my own player.

I think that's what happens in most cases, we only want to know about what we only use. What we don't know is what we don't use. Is that ring a bell in any of you?

Happy Easter,

Bob

> *No Sweat*


===> *The famous main question*




===> > *The true answer to the famous main question*




> *Did I knew the answer to that at the time?*

________________________________________________________


* So here it is, the main question with the answer*

As for my own question: "Did I knew the answer to that at the time?"
I let you each decide of the true answer. OK, I give up, No I did not know, that's why I ask.
Now I know what was the question in the first place.

Happy Easter to all of you dear owners of the fabulous Panasonic DMP-BD35/55.

Bob

Amen Gary! Marilyn Monroe is one of the sexiest ever. But,.... I would ditch the Titanic pic and would replace it with one of Marilyn. Then ditch the curtain. Just my opinion friend.

I wish that I could be of some help to you, as no one else has answered your question yet.
But if I may suggest this: in your BD55 manual, there is a section about some settings that you have to perform for the connection between your player and your router (computer). Maybe have a double check on that.
Myself I don't use that connection, so I cannot be of any further assistance.

Hopefully someone else will read this and will know the right answer.

Anyway, Happy Easter,

Bob

Hi Bruce,

I am not an expert in that department, but maybe with the help of another fellow owner, we can come to a solution.
On my original remote (BD55), the 4 letters that correspond to the 4 colors are arranged in this way:


.............A.. ..............B..............C.............D............
...........[red]..........[green].......[blue]......[yellow].......

I also used a Logitech Harmony remote control.
But I don't know about Java applications for BD-J discs and blu-ray region free.

I hope that someone will read this and be able to help you.

Happy Easter,

Bob

Do you know anyone whom has one you can borrow? I "learned" those commands from my Panny remote to my Harmony One.

Bruce
If you post the area you live, someone on the thread might be close enough to bring their remote to you, so you can transfer it into your Logitech.

Thanks Bob, Dave and Nordo. I will call the company I got the mod chip from on Monday, to see if they know how to change regions using a Universal Remote. But I'm not clear on how having one of the original remotes would let me get more information into my Universal than what I've already downloaded from the Logitech website.
Thanks,
Bruce

The Harmony remotes are "learning" capable. Basically, you can teach it any command from any IR remote through the software. For example, I taught my Harmony One the commands from a generic Home Depot light controller so I can use it to control my HT lighting. Harmony's tech support is very helpful. I am sure they can talk you through it in less than 5 minutes.

The movie posters get cycled out but never Marilyn!

Dolby PL2x is full resolution too. Try it on anything not 7.1 on the media. And good job by you French guys on the pirates!

Hello everybody,

As many of you I thought that the BD-55 passed all the BTB and WTW signal, but the fact is that it is not always case. If you use standard calibration discs such as DVE (Blu-Ray or DVD version) or GetGray, you may think it does (as I did). Well, to be able to send BTB and WTW to the display using those discs (and you want that, even if later you are going to cut those ranges at the display), first you must use the "User" picture option, lowering contrast and raising brightness at the BD-55. With my Epson TW500 fp, via HDMI, I thought that -3 contrast and +9 brightness gave me a healthy BTB and WTW range using the above mentioned discs. But past week I tried the more exact AVSHD disc, and now I have a much more exact picture of what´s going on. The higher WTW level (253 I think) is only available if you lower contrast to the absolute minimum at the player, and the lower BTB level I am able to send to my display is 7 (after raising brightness to the max at the player).

BTW, my BD-55 sends a YPbRb signal via HDMI (RGB is only an option for only-RGB displays). My connection is not Hi-Speed (1.3) HDMI.

I recall that the default picture sets (soft, cinema, etc) are all quite wrong, you want "User" in order to have the cleanest signal. I guess those other settings trick the signal somehow to give it an special look that some users may like. But I could sleep better if I knew that the player could send a full range signal (instead of chopping off those lower 7 BTB steps). I guess this could be easily ammended with a firmware update.

If some of you could try the AVSHD disc with different displays, that will give us a better understanding of what this players (BD-35 and BD-55) can or can´t do.

I think something else in your video path (receiver or display) is cutting BTB and WTW. Changing brightness and contrast in your source is just a way to compress the signal to move BTB and WTW into the standard 16-235 range. i.e. you are seeing the BTB and WTW patterns, but they aren't actually below black or above white any longer.

I would leave your BD55 on the normal setting, and check your display to make sure it can show BTB.

Thanks much, Dave!
That gives me two calls to make tomorrow!
Bruce
ps I am in the Chicago area

I was able to find the setting I believe in the display option shortly after you posted. However, when I've tried recently, the option to force 24 Hz. seems to have dissappeared. I can't find it anywhere. Am I going crazy or is this a problem with the player. I've yet to upgrade the firmware, so maybe this is the issue?

"the option to force 24 Hz. seems to have dissappeared."

Panasonics have never had a "force" option for 24hz. They will allow 24hz to be turned on IF the display and display chain while doing the hdmi handshake informs the blu-ray player that the display is 100% compliant with 24hz. And there is no wiggle room on the 100%.

It's in the manual on page 32.

Functions -> Other -> Setup -> HDMI Connection -> 24p Output -> On.

Note that this doesn't force 24fps. It only enables 24fps out when the source is recorded in 24fps. Which is what you want--if a source is recorded in 60fps, you don't want the player (or anything else) trying to do reverse telecine to turn it into 24fps, because that doesn't work very well, or at least not all the time.