Official Panasonic DMP-BDT 220/320/500 Owners Thread - Page 59

Yes there do seem to be a lot of network issues. I wonder if the cheaper/simpler BD77 or BD87 would have these issues.

The Sony players do seem to be the better streamers, and they come with a ton of free (Sony) movies on Crackle. Panasonic gives you CinemaNow where you have to pay.

Sadly, no MLB on Sony.

The three players I use most commonly are Netflix, Amazon and VUDU. The Netflix and Amazon players on the Sony S390 start very slowly for me. The Netflix player is faster than the Amazon but takes more than twice as long as the BDT220. I do really like the available stream status overlay (like this) and its ability to turn captions/subtitles on and off with the remote's SUBTITLE key. The Sony's Amazon player is hideous (obviously a subjective opinion) and requires an amazingly long time to start a stream, generally over 40 seconds; others have reported faster starts, so you mileage may vary. It does support 5.1 sound from the titles which have it, which the BDT220 does not.

I should mention that I'm currently having a problem with the BDT220's Netflix player, in that Netflix has deregistered it and its keypad menu for logging into Netflix is screwed up, with no indication of which key is selected and some key graphics missing. I don't think that anyone else has mentioned running into this problem.

Yeah--I'd hoped to consolidate my Netflix, Amazon and VUDU streaming in a single box, but this year's Panasonic and Sony BD players have let me down. I'm keeping one for VUDU and BDs (probably the BDT220) and using my Roku 2 XS for everything else. I prefer the Netflix player UI on the BD players a bit, but the Roku's player and stream start times are so fast (about 6 seconds for either) that I don't think that the BD players will ever equal it and I'm a very impatient guy--it grates on me to wait for electronics to respond and the fastest device wins .

I'm also having a problem with Netflix. I'll be about halfway through a movie and I'll get a connection error. After this happens, I have to completely unplug the unit and plug it back in before I can establish a wifi connection again. I'm positive that my router is not the issue as none of my other wifi devices are having connection problems. Has anyone got to the bottom of this? I'm afraid that returning the unit and looking for an alternative may be the only option. Any ideas?

Try a factory reset. Page 31 of the manual.

Already did to no avail.

Does BDT220 have any issues with playing double layer BD-R ? I'm planning to burn some 3D ISOs on those so I want to make sure this one won't give me any trouble...

I think I already know the answer to this question, but I'll give it a try anyway. Is there any way to re install an app on the 220. I'm trying everything I can with the MLB app, but it's weak. My internet is running at 5362 kbps, but the app refuses to do what it's supposed to do, necessitating my having to buy a Roku. I'd love to save the money if I could.

I've owned the BD65 before the 320 and I've never gotten over 2 bars (hard wired). For Amazon and never had a skip or bump.

Same here since last update. Waiting for a fix or update. Netflix on my Apple TV on the same network works great! This is definitely a bug. It shouldn't kill your internet connection Wired or WiFi in my case.

Lon

Did panasonic ever fix the 'black flashes' issue with netflix on the 210? I know this was a major concern and panasonic seemed slow to acknowledge much less fix the issue. I'm wondering if panny will do a better job this time around.

Black flashes are no more on the 220 - only connection troubles for some.

Hi,all
I just got my bdt 220....and I have 2 big problems so far:
1.The lack of IDX/sub support......
2.Ass support is not good enough
This is important when playing back 3d SBS files--because I'm not a native english language user I need sort of 3d subtitles.
I created 3d subtitles IDX/sub in 3DSubtitler--can't use them!!
I created ass 3d subtitles using srt23ass--this one works but not correctly....I suspect ass suport is not good enough!!
ANY ideas?
M
P.S.Another problem would be that I could not stream anything using Mezmo....Nero media home 4 works but not correctly.
Is this a problem with the player?...or I need to use another media serving software,a more compliant one?

Thanks in advance,
Mircea

I meant that if panny did not fix the black flashes issue on the 210 (not sure if they have), then it may signal a low probability of their fixing the connection issue with the 220--and only fixing it with a subsequent model. Hopefully that's not the case, but it seems to be the pattern for now.

Sadly it would appear not, but that's a hell of a good idea! I'm betting that the majority of the users of these products do not use them for Skype.

Is there a way to make suggestions for future firmware enhancements?

What me worry. I bought a Roku 2XD. That plus my XBOX takes care of any Panny app troubles.The MLB app, which was updated through Roku on 5/12, works great on the Roku. Too bad I couldn't do all in one with the Panny, but at least my app troubles are done.

Michael,

Did you try doing a hard reset on the player to fix the Netflix problem? I was stuck in the start up screen after the last firmware upgrade. The only was I could fix was by doing a hard reset procedure from page 31 of the manual.
The other possibility is trying the smartphone or tablet app. Maybe you could use its keyboard.

As of late, I've been using the TiVo Netflix player as it saves me the trouble of switching inputs.

Just got this player and have some questions being so new to it. I am using this player connected to a 720p lg 37" though hdmi.

I am using wifi currently to my router with N speeed. I did a firmware update right away.

1) Does the wifi always take 10-20 seconds to connect after a powering on? My other wireless devices connect in 1-4 seconds after powering on usually. Should I change the standby behavior to on?
Update - I made my router visible and it seems the panny found the network within 5-7 seconds of booting but soon as I make the router invisible the panny takes 15-20 seconds to connect. No other device seems to have this issue.

2) Internet menu is extremely slow on loading and moves really slow when going from one app to another. Is this due to wireless or just how it works because it seems a lot slower than my Sony ex720 built in internet suite (which is using wired networking in another room).

Has anyone went to the s590 and if so why?
Edited by Briant73 - 6/20/12 at 8:17pm

As there'd been some talk about that reset recently in this thread I'd been meaning to try it and since you mention it I did. It does fix the broken keyboard menu and I was able to re-register my BDT220 with Netflix. Thanks.

I have a close friend who's an engineer at TiVo who I had order a 500GB base-model Premiere w/PLS for me in a "Friends and Family" employee deal; it gets here tomorrow when I'll have the joy of switching to it from my 5.5 y/o S3 (thankfully they seem to have implemented an online procedure for duplicating the season passes). I've been dying to try the Netflix standard UI running on TiVo and to determine by bandwidth consumption test whether it can convert 1080p24 from Netflix into 1080i. aaronwt has said that if you enable 720p and 1080i that it switches through both resolutions indicating that it might.

I'm using this a 220 with a LCD PC monitor. Only colour mode that seems to work is "RGB Standard". The rest look very bluish. Is that right? RGB Standard for PC monitor?

And BTW I've uploaded a clip to demonstrate my 220's BD playback sound: http://youtu.be/RRlQG3UyJcg
Edited by Oubadah - 6/21/12 at 5:18am

As my previous post said I still find it takes at least 15-20 seconds for the player to connect to my wifi router after turning it on. I made the router visible and it seems the speed goes to 4-8 seconds which is much better but that is not a viable solution for my purposes. My guess is the players wireless code does a search for networks even if you have one hard coded into the players network settings and since my network is invisible it takes awhile to get done with the search and then try the hard coded one. Either way it's the only device exhibiting this behavior with the router invisible even from the same location, so does anyone know of a fix or do I need to wait on Panasonic who I emailed today?
Edited by Briant73 - 6/21/12 at 7:50am

Has anyone experienced random frame skipping? The first movie (50/50-rental) I played on my 320, had approximately 3 instances where it appears that a frame was skipped. I went back and replayed the same scenes and they played back perfectly the second time.

I also purchased a new Sony player (bdp-s790) and the first movie I played back (Alien - unfortunately I no longer had 50/50 in the house), played back fine.

I actually like the Panasonic better - faster and a better interface for many of the streaming services. However, I am a little concerned about the frame rate skips I experienced and some of the threads I have read about issues while streaming (I am using a wired connection - I think most of the people having issues are using wireless, but not sure). I can only keep one player.

Yes, and the following day it stopped recognizing discs of any kind. I recommend returning it. I went back to the 220.

Is there a remote control eject button on any of the 3 model and if not, can it be programmed from iphone or with a Harmony remote.

Certainly. Have disc players been sold which don't have OPEN/CLOSE (or EJECT) buttons on their remotes? (Human stupidity being without bounds, I suppose some one or more such models must have been sold at some point ).

I do not believe anyone can find such a beast

I just want to ensure that I understand your post. Are you saying that you returned the 320 for the 220 because you had issues playing discs? If so, is the 220 more stable playing back discs?

Thanks