Official Panasonic DMP-BD35/55 Owners Thread - Page 304

I started doing this about 10 years ago with CDs and DVDs. Haven't done any before/afters in a long time. Pretty much just habit now (takes all of about 5 seconds).

Yeah, I've seen that. I'm less than impressed. But, to each their own.

Could you please be a little more specific? What would I search for exactly,
and how would that help me understand what is wrong or effect a solution?
I am a little surprised that this topic is not discussed more widely. A big problem is that the Panasonic manual is woefully short on detail, and the Aiptec manual is also.

Why though? My Toshiba HD-D3 handles the discs perfectly -- the subtitles only show up if I turn subtitles on with the Subtitle button, and away they go again, with another press, as they should. Why does this Panasonic not properly handle subtitles, and not even have a subtitle button?

Just goes to show how "Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder". In addition to wanting a Panny BR player to go with my Panny Plasma, I was glad that the BD35 looked as nice as it does. I feel that the look is the best of all the players I considered which is a bonus to me.

It's not your BD player, It's how you mastered you video and audio file. Some DVD players are more forgiving than others.

Have you guys ever heard of electrons? ANY surface can be charges (+ OR -) by electron transfer. Remember the old trick of rubbing a pen over a sweater? A CD/DVD substrate will retain the charge because it is a poor conductor. The only way to discharge it is by non-contact using devices such as the ones you are making fun of....

Was that sweater trick with a green marker or pen?

If a disc were 'charged' as you say, why would that make any difference? The 1s and 0s on the disc are there just the same.

Any link to a doubleblind study proving that this makes any difference to sound quality?

There's a freeware program called "multiAVCHD" that can author AVCHD or BDMV,it even makes menus.

There are many people who DON'T respect the pseudoscientific subjectivist nonsense promulgated by the likes of Stereophile.

I too just flashed the spare WRT54G. After hooking it up to the BD55, I have 3 spare outputs.
Since my Router is on a different floor and opposite side of the house, Flashing the spare Linksys works out GGRR8T!

bump!

Forgive me. I know this has probably been covered ad nauseum, but I just need a quick confirmation about something. Now that I have a group of discs that I actually care about PIP/secondary audio ("Band of Brothers"), I just want to be sure I have this right. For the record, I'm running HDMI directly to my display and 5.1 analog out to my receiver.

1) If Secondary Audio is set to "off" in the global settings, I will get lossless, even if a supplementary feature that uses PIP and SA is played (in which case SA is not enabled and is greyed out using the Display button).

2) If Secondary Audio is set to "on" in the global settings, playing this supplementary feature will now give me PIP and SA, and the main track will be converted to DD/DTS.

3) If Secondary Audio is set to "on" in the global settings, playing the main feature will still give me only DD/DTS, even though the remote's PIP button indicates it is off, and its SA button also indicates that it is off.

This is my understanding. Is this correct, especially #3? And is this correct for analog out as well as HDMI audio out?

Use the Pop-Up Menu button instead of the Menu button.

There's a setting for this. Display -> Status Messages. Personally, I leave it on because there are times when all you get is a black screen while something is happening.

No, I really wasn't. I have read a couple of reviews which suggest the performance of the Pioneer BDP-51 is better than the BD35/55. It's also more expensive.

I agree completely. Three of my four sources look great with my ISF-calibrated settings. The fourth, the BD35, did not. I have no idea why. The BD35 DOES look very good with the settings recommended from the Blu-ray DVE by another poster. My TV is non-1080p, and I have all sources set to output 1080i.

A charge is NOT related to whether it's magnetic or not. Rubbing a pen on a sweater or shuffling your feet on the carpet in the winter does not make anything magnetic but can give you quite a nice shock.

I've got the 1.6 update burnt and ready to roll, I just wanted to check and make sure there weren't any known issues with it. My player hasn't hit a snag with any disc yet, so I'm wondering if I should bother at all.

Depends what version you already have. If it's old, there's more reason to update. I have 1.5 with no issues so will probably wait to see if a 1.7 comes out soon.

Even though you don't have to flash your main router to dd-wrt, you MAY want to. dd-wrt contains a number of advanced features normally found in much higher end routers. One feature I found useful is its ability to boost the signal level of the router. Given the distance between my main router and the ethernet bridge my Blu-ray is connected to, this feature came in handy. You may want to flash the router you are using as the bridge first and see how comfortable you are with the process and check to see how strong the signal is between it and your main router. If you are comfortable with the process and you want to take advantage of some of the other features of dd-wrt (like boosting the signal), you could then consider flashing your main router too.

TB

I'm on 1.1

What will I gain and what is the drawback to 1.6?

A few newer discs may have playback problems without 1.6.

This sounds like it may be the solution I've been looking for. At the risk of sounding like a moron, what do you mean by 'flashing'. And how would I do it?
Tom

So nice and thoughtful of you to not only register your disagreement, but do so in such a rude and insulting way.

I'm not trying to push anyone into doing this. I just commented what I do to disks before playing them. There are more appropriate ways to give your opinion.

I just sent you a PM with the procedure.

For some reason, I had problems flashing my BD35 from the disk I download off Panys site. I ended up buying a 50 foot ethernet cable from Firefold.com for 6.99 and just hooking to my router for the firmware updates.

A much more reliable operation it seems.

Exactly...

Just ignore 1.6. If you have no problem, you don't need any firmware upgrade..

Given the lip-sync issues some folks are having, just want to report no problems with an older receiver (Onkyo TX-DS575X, 5.1, DTS and DD, no HDMI), and older TV (Samsung HLP 5674 DLP, 1080i capable, 720p native).

BD35 hooked to Monoprice 4X1 Enhanced 1.3b Certified HDMI Switch (REV.3.0), and then to TV via HDMI. Audio hooked up to receiver with optical toslink set to bitstream. Just used the "easy settings" last night to get it going.

Watched a standard DVD (Pursuit of Happyness), TV and receiver sounds were completely matched, no delay at all. Receiver decodes to Dolby Digital. So far so good.

Monoprice HDMI switch was $30, saved me from having to buy a new receiver to switch between the BD35 and the HD DVR. Of course, that's not necessarily a good thing, especially if you really want a new receiver.