Official Panasonic DMP-BDT 220/320/500 Owners Thread - Page 37

I also was victim of a 310 which had an almost piercing high pitched whine to it. I know it´s stupid but I am tempted by a 220 or 320. Wonder if the 220 with it´s larger casing may actually be quiter...

I have the 220, and other than the whine when the drive first load a disc (which is normal and expected since it loads a disc so fast), mine is very quiet.

Cnet just made the 220 the best Blue Ray player of 2012. How do you like them apples.

Sorry, but that's somewhat of a misleading statement. Read the actual factual here

There's a big difference between being noted as the "best Blue Ray player of 2012" and as the article actually states, " 2012's best blu-ray VALUE"

That's quite a claim for them to make since they haven't even reviewed the best value player, the Sony BDP-S590. It has tons more apps, better Netflix interface, Gracenote, infinitely better DLNA support, more file support, source direct, the list goes on.

Correction noted.

The 220 Netflix interface has solid streaming handling. Never have problems with it.

I didn't say anything was wrong with the 220's NF interface. I just said Sony's is better. It has more features like a stream quality display (same as a PS3). That's the kind of detail a responsible journalist should catch. The 220 is a fine player, and I'm glad you're happy with it. I'm just taking issue with CNET proclaiming one model the king when they haven't even seen the competition. I didn't mean to shoot the messenger. Sorry.

You don´t hear the player at all after the movie is loaded is that very quiet or do you still hear it if you listen for it?

Yaaaay! After over a month of getting the wrong players and sending them back I finally got a BDT220!

Wow. Netflix is slow. They need to fix that.

Currently looking at buying a BDT-320.

I am curious as to how much of a effect the '3D Effects' Controller has, that I see available on Panasonic Blu-ray players.

Significant --- or --- Negligible ?

Thanks for any info.

I am so close to picking up a 220 from Best Buy; but I'm afraid of getting another noisy dud like the 310 I bought and returned only a month ago.

Not noisy at all, just got it two weeks ago. Pull the trigger.

I'm happy with mine. It makes no noise at all. My PS3 Slim on the otherhand sounds like a jet-plane.

Let's talk about settings. I like the black level on mine set to "Darker". How about some of the other adjustments? There are so many I really don't know what to set them at. Any suggestions?

There seems to be a group of people especially sensitive to a noise made by the BDTx10s, so any of them who've upgraded to one of this year's models should probably comment as to whether they still make that noise.

Welcome to the club... I did a potential foolish thing and ordered a 320 so will see if it´s any better.

Would hurt like hell go on the same mine again while knowing better

The 320 is great, and even better with a universal remote-enjoy it.

Bit the bullet and went out and bought a BTD320.

Impressed with it so far, nice quality.

Do have a question though, on one of the menu screen's - it's all grey in the backround (says Panasonic in top right corner of screen). Towards the bottom of the screen there is a different shade of grey and a band curving above it (left to right).

It looks deliberate, and that it should be there. But figured I would ask to make sure that it's not my Plasma Display.

I have ran Prep Slides, and during the Grey / White slides I saw zero discoloration or bad pixels so I think I am in the clear, but better safe than sorry.

-Thank you.

Noisy?....Noisy??, I've just come from a Samsung BD-P1500...you don't know nothin about noise! This Panasonic 220 is a dream. = : )

Does the 320 have a fan on the back or not?

Just wanted to chime in here as I've just picked up and installed a 220. The best thing about the 220 is that, finally, I have a fairly quiet Panasonic blu-ray player. The noisy drives of past models were always my biggest (and only) complaint about Panasonic players. So I either lucked out an got a good one or they've done something that makes them run more quietly. There is still the initial drive noise when a disc loads and on some menus, but overall its the quietest Panasonic player I've had in years.

I have it hooked up to our home network via a powerline adaptor. All network functions are working well. Netflix and VUDU are as speedy as I've seen on any other networked decvice I've had.

I've always thought that the video produced by Pannasonic players was sharper and more detailed than most other brands. I've read in multiple articles that there's no difference among players in the quality of blu-ray video through HDMI. To my eyes, though, Panasonic video has always looked superior, and the 220 does.

For me the 220 is the perfect combination of quality, price and features. Its definitely a keeper!

Funny but true. I had a 1590.

Ok - Been using the Panny 220 since the end of last month. Finally got to the DLNA Home Network & Network Drive functions. Tried connecting to a Win7 PC which is correctly configured for sharing with plenty of WMV videos - the 220's Network Drive option connects to folder and responds with - There are no files in this folder which actually does contain several. Using the Home Network option, DLNA Client successfully connects but it only plays back the two sample video files that Win7 included - Landscapes & Wildlife in HD both files are .WMV.

So the bottom line is that the player does play .WMV video formatted files - albeit a version of WMV unbeknownst to me.

And the Panasonic product website - Here states in the section about DLNA Smart home networking
"DLNA-certified Blu-ray Disc Players and Home Theaters are easy to use with your home network. Share and enjoy digital photos (JPEG), music (MP3, WMA) and videos (AVCHD, WMV) by simply connecting to a home network (LAN).

So the questions are how or can one convert a version of a WMV to the acceptable format and is there a reputable converter?

But no support for FLAC files, if I read properly... I really can't understand that policy

I sit about 10 feet from the player, and honestly don't hear it while a movie is in progress...even during times when the sound is minimal.

I have the Panny 320 and I've been loving it. Especially its streaming. I've run into no streaming problems until yesterday.

I was watching doing quite a bit of streaming yesterday due to the bad weather. After a few hours of flawless streaming, it started to rebuffer. I was surprised as that's actually the first time that's happened. It was never able to buffer and I received an error message that stated unable to connect to Netflix. So I exited Netflix and went into the BD system menu. Turns out the BD couldn't find the wireless connection. So I powered off and then back on the BD. I went back to Netflix and streamed again for about 20 minutes when the same thing happened again. Same error message, check system menu and again nothing showing under wireless connection.

So I once again re-powered the player looked on system menu and it showed the typical 5 bar full connection that I always get. Reconnected to Netflix and streamed for about two hours with no problems at all.

Has anyone ever heard of this problem where the blu-ray suddenly loses the wifi connection and is there a way to fix it? I find it kind of strange that it happened not once, but twice in about a 20 minute period after never happening before. Any insight would be appreciated.

I mean IP control without the need of a aGlobal Cache? Can you can you control these players via IP commands??

Thanks

Yes. I made a web page to directly control my 110. I doubt the 220 series is any different. I have no Global Cache device. The HTML code is posted in the 110 thread. There was one command we never could get working, but I don't remember which one. If the 220 is different, just use the same procedure used before to discover the commands.

I have reviewed few threads posted here on this topic. Just wan to make sure Pany BDT 220/320 model supports NTFS in USB and DLNA format?

Panny does not support NTFS in DLNA format. It does support NTFS on USB drives. You will have a very hard time finding NTFS support over DLNA.