Official Panasonic DMP-BDT110/210/310 Owners Thread - Page 99

Any idea why that would be the case? Given that both products are by Panasonic, it would seem that there should not be a difference, but I probably don't understand the technological issues.

No idea. But it was obvious. I was streaming a foriegn film with subtitles. Not only was PQ considerably less sharp on the VT30, but the subtitles were cut off on the bottom and unreadible when there were 3 lines of text (and were fine on the 110). I haven't streamed on the VT30 since, but rather exclusively use the 110.

Can anyone that has received their free Avatar Blu-ray 3D disc from Panasonic USA confirm if it is "Region A" or a "Region Free" disc.

Hi I'm looking to buy my first 3D Blu-Ray player to go with my Samsung HLT6187 DLP with 3DA-1 adapter, UC DLP Link Glasses, all being new & never used.

My main thing is 2D to 3D conversion & dual HDMI.

I read some posts on here but there are 99 pages and my head is spinning especially after researching the other 3D stuff to buy, that I knew nothing about.

I'm look at buying either the Panasonic DMP-BDT310 VS Samsung BD-D6700 & want the best 2D to 3D conversion.

I already own a PS3 and I know it plays 3D Blu-Rays but it doesn't convert 2D to 3D, so my other question is, would buying either of these players be the best way to go seeing it will only convert disc's and not something like a HD MKV file & if so what would be a better way to go in regards to best quality 2D to 3D conversions for 2D MP4,MKV,M2TS & Blu-Ray Discs?

It's quite possible that they've improved it. I've been watching for some hours now and only saw a few flashes at the beginning of something. Anyone else with the new firmware version experience a lot of flashes yet?

At one point tonight I was getting so many flashes I thought I was looking at a strobe instead of a movie.

Netflix audio and video are far superior in the new 110, 210 and 310 players to Netflix on a 2010 GT-25 Plasma for example.
This is my hunch. It has to do with the way digital audio is handled by the two.
The bluray players will do Dolby Digial Plus from Netflix.
Older panasonic tv's used to pass 5.1 Dolby Digital via optic out. That optic out is 2.0 now, and has been for at least 2yrs.
Vague conclusion: the digital audio hardware is superior in the new -10 series bluray players. Makes sense to me

swan40

I picked one up locally from Best Buy a couple nights ago when they seemed to have the best price (though it won't show until you start the checkout and would need to do a site PM, if you're buying locally). Their price was better than Amazon marketplace dealers although you'd have to pay sales tax w/ BB.

Hmmm... Looks like BB's (hidden) sale price might've gone up a bit already though.

_Man_

Well owners of the Panasonic series I had an OPPO BDP-93 and sent it back, and ordered a Panny DMP-BDT210. The OPPO was doing strange things to my LCD display like leaving the OPPO logo burnt in to the screen for up to 20 minutes verytime I turned the OPPO on, as well as not doing as well on my CD's. They just didn't sound the same as before.
So I'll let you know how the Panny compares to the OPPO, as soon as it comes from Amazon.

Much more likely due to the fear of digital copying of materials. When it's possible that it's your own material (USB/SD), they have no problem outputing DD, when it's HDMI they do. When you're doing it from the blueray player, you bought something, when from the TV you may not have. More and more broadcasters are turning on the 'do not copy' bit in their programming removing your rights to timeshift or make archival copies once it passes through the first device; AVRs have special logic to allow it to usually one more HDMI output.

Sony's units don't do MKV files, and are much more format restricted than Panasonic since Sony is big producer of material and they know that a high percentage of P2P files are in MKV or Divix formats. They don't want to support piracy indirectly or not. Panasonic isn't as invested in the production of media itself, they look for feature advantages. I'm waiting for Sony to mandate that their products don't play MP3 that doesn't have the digital mark that it was from an digital seller and stop playing home ripped songs.

Here's the Pansonic GT25's statements, the first one is copyright protection:

You can enjoy your Home theater by connecting a Dolby Digital (5.1 channel) decoder and Multi Channel amplifier to the DIGITAL AUDIO OUT terminals.
Caution

• Depending on your DVD player and DVD-Audio software the copyright protection function may operate and disable optical output.
• When an ATSC channel is selected, the output from the DIGITAL AUDIO OUT jack will be Dolby Digital. When an NTSC channel is selected, the output will be PCM.
• When playing a movie on SD Card Movie player, when the sound has been recorded in Dolby Digital, the output from the DIGITAL AUDIO OUT terminal will be Dolby Digital. When the sound is recorded in other formats, the output will be PCM.

I have a question for those who has a flashes during watching netflix. Do you see them only on netflix or evrywhere else? I have just one black flash but only when netflix is started and showing a loading bar. After that there is no flashes at all.
I had horrible flashes just right after firmware update, those flashes were everywhere, i was thinking about bad hdmi cable, but after special reset sequence all flashes went away.

Anybody using ps3mediaserver with this for networking? The Panny is not letting me page down thru the folders. When it gets to the last one, instead of continuing to scroll down, it just goes right back to the top.

Newer devices have newer interface which allows higher resolution streaming.

If the cable was bad enough to cause that, then a blu ray would be unwatchable.

But the GT30 and VT30 (the 2 displays mentioned in the posts above) are brand new 2011 models as well.

Interesting. I wonder if they're the same interface besides the apparent difference in resolution.

Now that I have a BDT110, I'm wondering if a lot of folks here have actually tried the "enhanced" firmwares from firmwareinfo.com and would recommend using them?

I could probably use region-free playback, particularly for some DVDs I still own (and have no idea if/when I'll ever upgrade to some eventual BDs). Would also be nice to have full player control again to more easily skip pass stuff like forced trailers.

Thanks for any info...

_Man_

Interested in hearing the same. I heard it also unlocks divx playback on us models?

Can anyone with the 210/310 tell me if there is a way to send source direct what you are playing to the receiver. My AVR has excellent upscaling and if I get the penny id want to let my AVR do the processing of DVD' s instead of the panny. I was looking into getting an oppo 93 but it seems like all these electronics are overkill. Also how about audio from a cd. I would prefer my AVR DAC. Is used over the penny. I know I can bitstream movie audio but how about cd audio?

These players cannot do source direct. They upconvert very well on their own however except on unusual cadences like 5:5. I've done plenty of comparisons - look for earlier posts of mine in this thread.

I've tried one Amazon VOD, and while it didn't flicker, it did several millisecond pauses. Much less noticeable than the flicker, but it was like, "Did something just happen?"

Does anyone know if you can use the supplied wifi dongle from the GT30 tv to use on one of these blu-ray players?

Assuming you got the DY-WL10 wireless adapter from Panasonic, yes, it will work with the dmp-bdt 110. Don't need it with the higher models, as wifi is built in.

I have 3 Vudu interfaces. One thru the 310, one thru the PS3 and another thru an actual Vudu box. The Vudu Box is by far the better looking picture, sharper with less blooming. They all route through my AVR with identical picture modes. I dunno, just wondering if anyone noticed this? Oh yeah, Netflix sucks, can't believe people use that for film viewing when Vudu is available. The picture and sound and availability is a joke even for the price they are asking. I wish VUDU would go to a subscription service, I'd pay up to about 15/mo for their quality.

It's $8/month for all you can eat. That's what? 2 recent release VUDU films in standard def?

PQ varies quite a bit from title to title. Most of the stuff that I watch is pretty sharp.

I don't see the studios ever allowing VUDU to offer a buffet service, unless it were for a subset of their stuff similar to Netflix's collection, like Amazon's Prime Eligible video. Amazon's Instant Video service has pretty much all of the new-to-disc-and-VOD popular theatrical titles, but none of them are Prime Eligible. They'd also probably limit resolution to HD (no HDX).

I picked up a bdt210 a couple weeks ago and this thing has been full of problems. It's the only device that has problems with staying connected to wifi. Netflix streaming has been spotty even after two firmware updates. My biggest complaint has been the wifi issue.

I have a netgear router and wireless printer, pc, xbox, ps3, and iPhones have no issues with wifi or Netflix.

Maybe I got a lemon?

My 210 upgraded its firmware to 1.68 tonight. No idea what has changed. Everything seems to be operating perfectly.

Hi everyone. I have a question about stereo composite output. If my 210 connected to AVR two imputs one by hdmi and second by stereo is there is an option in a menu to switch audio outputs or they both active all the time. I need to get video from hdmi and audio from analog stereo outputs for my AVR second zone.
Thanks.

You can switch HDMI audio off. I don't know about the analog audio.

I have the BDT110 and I get sound through optical and hdmi at same time.