Official Panasonic DMP-BDT110/210/310 Owners Thread - Page 222

Sorry. You have no idea what you are taking about.

Why would you want to? If the movie has black bars on the top and bottom, it was shot at a wider aspect ratio than 16:9 by the director (on purpose). Stretching or zooming will distort the picture and/or reduce the resolution and/or cut off the sides of the picture. You are MUCH better off watching it with the bars on the top and bottom.

Before posting, went through the settings, but did not see it anywhere. Anyone know?

I must be missing something here because I have BDLive set to Allow (limited) but have never noticed any slowness in loading a disc. I don't have any use for BDlive and never gave it much thought. Maybe I haven't played any discs that have that feature?

Glad to hear you found it working for you.

The subject of file support has been discussed extensively in this thread, which is probably why you didn't get a response the first time. It gets tiresome for active members to keep answering the same question every time a new owner joins, sometimes several times the same day.

A few pointers that may be helpful:

1) The Panny plays mkv files through USB, as you found - and only mkv. The files can contain MPEG or MP4/H.264, but the player is very picky about which flavors it will play. You may want to look at posts from late Oct through early Dec for an extensive discussion of this, including how to make playable mkv files and fix files that won't play.

2) File support for USB is identical to that for Network Drive. If you search this thread, you may want to include that in you search terms.

Please post it here if you discover something new :-)

OK, I read this:

"when you are playing a BDLive disc."[/quote]

Hopefully he has what he needs.

I don't see it either. I did discover a method to get around the "auto-start" behavior--see my post here.

I burned photo DVD w/Music on Laptop and it plays fine, but my BD310 refuses to recognize the format.

Any ideas on what I can do?

Thanks

I must be confused this player with other player's settings. My bad.

99% of the BD discs today are BDLive disc. You have no choice on it.

BDLive is not an app. It's part of most of the BD disc that automatically kicks in when it detects BD2.0 player.

I have the same settings as you. You must be accustom to the slowness of the BD discs in general Compare a typical BD disc load into menu to old DVD disc load into menu. It is heck a lot slower for most discs I players. Whenever I saw 'loading' progress bar, I know it is doing something I don't really care.

You're probably right. Loading time just doesn't seem to be that long to me so I guess it's not a biggee. My OCDness will probably kick in now and I'll take the old stopwatch next time I play a DVD and a Blu-ray and clock the times.

FW 1.80 is out.

Just got a new firmware update notification for firmware 1.80, but it's not showing up on their support page. I typically don't like to download it as I prefer to use the USB method.

I have two 210.

The wifi always stays connected with one, zero issues, and it's the one farthest from the FIOS router.

The other one always loses the IP and Gateway from the FIOS router.

What the!

Very annoying problem.

I have to search for the router again for it to reconnect.

Anyone, please.

I had the same problem with my 210 over Wi-fi. The fix for me was switching the 210's IP Address Settings to Static, instead of DHCP. Just fill in the necessary entries and hit OK.

Example:

Network Settings > IP Address/DNS Settings

IP Address Auto Configuration (DHCP): Off
IP Address: 192.168.1.120
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 192.168.1.1 (Router IP)
Primary DNS: 192.168.1.1 (Router IP)
OK.

It may not be necessary, but I rebooted both the 210 and router after making these changes. Hasn't dropped an IP connection since.

Let me give it a shot, thank you.

Ok, made the changes, only IP was needed to be changed into 120.

So far so good.

How does it still connect with the IP changed?

Sorry. I know nothing about networking.

Wish I bumped into you 6 months ago!

Really, thank you.

Thanks for the heads up. Downloading now.

Official Panasonic support page hasn't been updated yet: still on version 1.68.

http://shop.panasonic.com/shop/model...s&support#tabs

I've been on 1.70 with no issues. Any idea what 1.80 has to offer?

Received a message on my BDT110 that a firmware update was available, and since I've been having occasional Netflix black flashing problems I decided to update.

After the download, update, and the player starting back up again I checked for a firmware update again just to make sure it worked. It says I'm still at 1.70, and 1.80 is available for download (the same thing it said before I updated). Anybody else have this problem? Should I try the update again?

Mine took the first time, says latest FW already installed now.

Tried the update a 2nd time, and this time it worked.

Unfortunately I still get black flashes on Netflix.

I'm not a subscriber, but I'd like to believe I could watch a streaming service without this issue. May invest $8 to test out the player.

No idea what 1.80 offers. It certainly doesn't fix the player's inability to accept a usb flash drive.

The update was shaky. First, I got a strange flickering image for the internet connection message after update. Then, I couldn't get one of my blu ray players to load. Everything seems fine now.

Panasonic's team seems composed of a strange hodge podge of geniuses and incompetents.

You're welcome.

It still connects because it sends out a Router Solicitation/Discovery packet at boot up. And the router will send back an acknowledgement packet. The router also sends out a multicast (announcement) to discover every machine on it's local network. Everything on it's subnet will reply. You now have a fixed address, therefore, you will also get a static IP lease. It's the dynamic IP address lease renewals I think are causing the problems with the dropped IPs in DHCP mode on some units. I think it's ultimately an issue with the network card in the Panasonic.

This happens from time to time. It's renegotiating for a different encode from Netlix due to server load, network congestion, or simply because of the weak strength of the signal between your player and the router. Any time the noise floor jumps up and the SNR goes down, it's going to renegotiate for the next slowest speed. In the past, older Panasonic players would completely halt playback and reload the entire screen. With the new units and the latest firmware, they've improved upon that tedious process by maintaining playback while renegotiating speed. Now you see a flash, instead of completely freezing playback and reloading. If you can get a SNR close to 40 or above, you'll notice that it will rarely flash. Sometimes, your best option is to run Ethernet straight to the router. Bypass the wi-fi.


If your player doesn't accept a USB flash drive, then you need to return it. I've never had an issue upgrading firmware, music playback, and picture viewing with a generic USB flash drive on my 210. If your flash drive has any built in file or password security software on it, it will not work.

I've tried two different flash drives with the panasonic. Both have worked perfectly for years with every computer I've tried. With the panasonic, nada.

Hello, i have the old fat ps3 and want to buy the panasonic 110 because the 2d-3d conversion and "playability" of mkv. Any owner of both devices can tell me if i will note any diference between ps3 and panasonic? you advice me? thanks

2012/2/6
Ver 1.80

VIERA Connect update
Playability of 3D Blu-ray Disc

The global site is usually more rapidly updated than the North American site.

Hey birdy,

I don't know about the PS3, but if I were you, I would definitely read some more in this thread before buying a 110 for the purpose of mkv playback. Search will be a good tool for you. Focus on the discussion of mkv in late Oct through early Dec of last year. Before that, consensus here was mostly that mkv didn't actually work on these players.

You can also just scan through the posts of the last week or so. New owners asking about mkv come here almost daily.

If your flash drive is formatted as NTFS, it won't work.

I've no problem using any of my flash drives on the player. But I don't have much use of it either