Official Panasonic DMP-BD60/80 Owners Thread - Page 176

You could buy another router and set it up in "Bridge" mode. Connect the BD60 via an Ethernet cable to your new bridge. The new bridge will communicate wirelessly to your original wireless router.

Thanks Moxie.

-I know the Amazon VOD offers 5.1 with some titles.
--I know the TiVo S3 will output 5.1 . TiVo downloads the movie and can produce a better picture/sound.
-I know Roku also does 5.1.

What I don't know is if the BD60 can output 5.1 with a 5.1 VOD from Amazon. That's my question and I am puzzled why nobody here can answer it.I did a lot of searches but I always find the same TiVo and Roku thing and nothing aout BD60/VOD/5.1 besides my own posts.

I don't have a fast enough connection to support streaming HD, my max is 1.5mbps download, so I won't be able to test anything from Amazon on the BD60 that may have 5.1 audio once I figure out how to find titles with 5.1 audio.

I agree that Blue Jeans Cable has great HDMI cables. I have purchased 7 from them in varying lengths up to 25 feet and have had no problems.

I have a samsung 58650 plasma. Need a good bluray player. Wondering if the pioneer 320 is a better choose then pann 60? Is the pioneer worth the extra $100 dollars?

Have you looked at them side-by-side with the same source material? IMHO, the 60 is a slam dunk at it's price point, especially since the freeze seems to be fixed; however, as with anything, it is in the eye of the beholder. Some might pay the extra Benjamin for the Pio if they liked the look better on their particular setup. Only you can be the judge; however, I don't think you could go wrong with a 60 (and besides, you'd have that Benji for several Blu's!)

I tried to access the Secondary Menu while watching Youtube with the BD60 and it didn't work. I wanted to use Zoom since that function is not available on my TV for HDMI connected sources. To prevent distortion, I have to set my TV for 4:3 input. This causes the widescreen Youtube videos to have black bars on all four sides. Any suggestions? Has anybody tried suggesting firmware updates to Panasonic and had them pay attention?

Yikes I just got this for my father for $118.88 here in the US.

When you are at the main Viera Cast screen, go to the Settings item in the upper left corner of the screen and press OK. From there, cursor down to Display Size and adjust for your display.

Is that the BD60? This backs me up that this unit is only low cost in the US.

amazon.ca has the BD-60 listed for $300 CDN, we are right next door to the US and our dollar is almost at parity so yes the gouging continues every where except for the US.

Totally reiterates my point about the BD60 being cheap only in the US.

Adjusting Display Size on the Viera Cast screen does not seem to have much effect. I still get large black bars on all four sides while watching Youtube widescreen videos.

Slimoli,

I have used Amazon VOD about a half dozen times on HD titles that should be available in 5.1. So far all have come in 2-channel stereo. (Disappointing--I would use Amazon VOD more often if the sound was available in 5.1.) Like you, I searched the web but could not find evidence that the BD60 can actually output 5.1 from Amazon VOD.

Thats why you have to shop around. I've seen the bd60 locally for under $200 cdn.

I watched Inglourious Basterds tonight, my BD60 took 5 minutes to reach the menu. About 5 or 6 "now readings", each lasting for about a minute. Did you guys notice the same ?

Update: tried on my PS3, took 2 1/2 minutes to reach he menu. I think that's just the nature of the beast.

Will the DMP-BD60K work with my Harmony 880 remote?

Absolutely!

Yes there a great company for sure and I will always buy all my cables and speaker wires from BJC . Thats why I wanted to share with everyone here so they dont pay to much elsewhere and not get what there paying for .

Little over 1 minute from insert to menu on my BD60. 2.1 firmware.

Tried again. 1 minute 35 seconds.

Mine only took 1 minute 31 seconds from insert to menu and a little under the first time

It took 2 1/2 minutes on my PS3, something is different between your disk and mine. My disk goes through few "loadings" before the movie menu appears. It first displays the Universal intro , more "loading' , an add for some sort of cel phone product, more "loading", and finally the movie menu. On my BD60 it's much slower than the PS3, as expected. Are you sure we are talking about the same thing ? The movie menu, not the Universal intro ?

The "menu" is the movie menu, right ? Not talking about the first intro (Universal). Does your disk came with the cel phone add before the menu? The add itself takes more than a minute. The add is in 480p and look low quality.

Im sorry I was just kidding with ya dont take me serious Although I am running the 2.2 firmware so it could be a touch faster

No cell phone ad. Blockbuster Special Edition B&M rental. Load>Universal>Menu.

Thanks. It shows that Netflix is playing some add game now. I found strange that the add quality was so low, kind of non-professional job. Very annoying and I couldn't find a way to skip it.

Maybe that's why it takes so long to get to the menu.

Robert

Did you try 'chapter next'? It worked for me.

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I was wondering something.

Everyone here who has had problems with streaming Amazon/Netflix/etc... with starts and stops, how are connecting to the interent with either the BD-60/80/some other device?

I still say stay away from Wireless Bridges(unless you have no choice), and go with the Powerline adapters from either Belkin(I have these. 200Mbps MAX), or Linksys(I have never personally tried this pair) sold at Best Buy. The newer Belkin's(1000Mbps MAX) are now available for $150+tax.

The Linksys are the same price, but only do up to 200Mbps, which is more than enough for anyone. PLUS, there adapter has 4 OUT ports for multiple ethernet connections in one room(BD-80/XBOX 360/PS3/ROKU), as opposed to just ONE for the Belkin which would cause you to have to physicaly go and change it.

I only have a download, via Time warner Cable, max of 2.0Mbps, with an upload of 375kbps, and the Belkins I have work like a charm.

Amazon, I will admit, did/does have some sort of rebuffering issue, but not nearly the amount reported here(I have a BD-80). And Netflix, even though I can only get SD(broadband internet provider TWC GOUGES the crap at of people like me where I live because they are the only show in town, plus I live in a rural NW PA area. If I lived just outside of Pittsburgh, I am sure my bandwidth/cost ratio would be tremendously different) works PERFECTLY even with a 2.0Mbps download(usually runs at 1.93Mbps according to speedtest.net).

Rebuffering/dropouts are super rare at Netflix, so this also tells me that Amazon.com may be more of the problem than the connection setup, but I still say go this route if you can.

Or at least try it. Save the receipt/box/etc... and try it for 2-3 weeks. I think you will notice a major difference. You have 30 days in which to return it, if it is no better.

P.S. Also, have your broadband provider come out and check and see that there is nothing interfering with your broadband reception. I had to have a tech come out, because I kept on getting kicked off online, and could not figure out why. When I called TWC, they said they could "barely" get a reading on my location, so they sent someone out to look.

Turns out, all of my splitters had to be replaced, I guess because bleeding/noise/signal loss(these are my words, not there's), and after replacing them, that did the trick. Have not had a dropout since(3 months). Also, my house uses a combo of RG59 and RG-6 QUAD SHEILDED just so you know(input from cable box is RG59/underground, no doubt. House was built in 1987)

IMO, I think the BD60 deserves a higher rating. I was lucky enough to see a comparison between an OPPO and a BD60 at a local AVS store that had both connected to a PIO PRO-101FD playing both BD and standard DVD.
again based on my visual opinion, on BD, the OPPO may have a very slight (note very slight) visual advantage over the BD-60 interms of clor saturation and levels of black, sharpness. on standard dvd, then this margin becomes wider but not as much. if i would rank the oppo as #10, then the bd60 as#9
this is all based on visual opinion only. now, have I seen Pio or Denon player in comparison to Oppo or bd60??. the difference in IMO is both Pio or denon are equal in PQ as the bd60, everyone of them is not that much difference
now, going to a different price point, a Lexicon Bd-30 and an OPPO are 2 worlds apart in terms of price, but heck, they both look the same.
so again, imho, a BD60 with a now going price of $120 is a best bang and deserves a higher rating