The Official Panasonic DMP-BD30 Owner's Thread - Page 407

Sorry to burst your bubble. My BD30 was made in China.

My BD-30 says "Made in China" on the back. Manufactured in April 2008.

My BD-30 quit again tonight. It was not the HDMI connectors. It must have gotten temperature sensitive these last 3 years. I n order to save money, manufactures scrimp on the quality of capacitors and solid state components by selecting devices that barely run at the temperatures generated within the cabinet. As time goes on p/n junctions break down and capacitors change values. I wish I could find devices that used mil grade components.

It really does not matter whether they are built in China or Japan. The way it works is that various companies submit proposals to the main company on how they will implement the design parameters. The one demonstrating a working unit at the lowest cost wins the contract. It is not unlike outsourcing clothes.

Thanks for the correction - apparently they DID make some of these in China...

Art, I think that the swimsuit edition of Sports Illustrated uses that business model for sourcing the swimsuits. But then I haven't yet seem painted on circuit boards.

Jeff

Hi Jeff,

I helped a Chinese engineer improve her English a few years ago. She worked for one of many companies whose function is to implement major company designs. She would get a requirement for a particular circuit or circuit board from a company like SONY. She would have to design the circuit, find the best price for components and build a prototype. Her company would then price out the cost of supplying the module to the major manufacturer. BTW, she was very intelligent and wanted the same things you and I dream of, a home, a family and a good job.

I agree.

For every person reporting here....there are likely 500 that are fine.

Squeaky wheel syndrome.

Well, here I am quoting myself. I did misremember the timing of Panny BD player introductions. The BD35 came almost a year after the BD30 (not 6 months). It was the BD60 that came soon after the BD35 - so soon, in fact, that one wonders why they even released the BD35.

True. They discontinued the BD35 after 3 months and didn't come out with the BD60 for 2 more months, so Panny had nothing to sell for a while. The prices of BD35's on Amazon were ridiculous during the gap. The BD55 seemed to have a 1 month shelf life. Drove a lot of people around here crazy!

Tell you what; I could swear that all BD-30's were made in Japan though, but it seems the latest batches were made in China... good to know that, anyway

I have read and re-read; downloaded and burned now 4 discs and regardless my panny comes back with " disc not supported" I am using just a basic CD-R blank cd.... I have researched this to death today and coming up empty. I followed the FW instructions as well posted in this thread. Anyone offer any ideas?

Thxs

What firmware are you at? I recently down loaded 2.9 with no problems. But prior to that one I had the exact problem. I would mail it to you. Send me a pm if interested.

Thxs... sent u a pm

Operating system? Burning software?

Hi; Thxs for the reply: I just use whatever free I can find and have used "deep burner" before with no problems.... using deep burner again now and my OS is W7 Operating bit64. Maybe its the software.... I just moved to this machine from an XP machine... this is my first attempt to use deep burner with this W7 machine? Thxs

Vista's builtin burning software produced a lot of coasters for people trying to upgrade their BD30s. I'd be that Win 7's is the same. Try one on the 3rd party free burning apps.

http://www.imgburn.com/ works on Win 7, incl 64-bit vers.

Thank you! Will give it a try and report back later

Hey pepar: THANK YOU! Worked great! Take care

Did you know that if you burn a CD-RW with CD-R software, it will act like a CD-R except that it can be erased (with CD-RW software)? That way, no more coasters, and discs are reusable.

...me too...life is short but no so short that I can't wait a few extra seconds for the movie to kick in...

I had two BD30's working fine until one of them started to overheat and quit playing after 30 mins. or so. Panasonic told me it was a bad DVD drive. I never sent it back. About ten days ago I bought a BD30 DVD drive. It's very simple to replace and install a new one. I did that and the drive that I bought didn't work.

I decided to take my chances by swapping drives with the BD30 that was working. The drive from the BD30 that was overheating worked great. I swapped again drives and I put in the drive that I bought and it worked great also. I put the original drive back on the working BD 30. I have two BD30 DVD drives and one BD30 that is still kicking. If someone knows for sure that the BD30 DVD drive is bad PM me.

Well, there's the problem. You're putting a DVD drive, and not a BD-ROM in a BD player.

I need to elaborate on my #12202 post. I call it a DVD drive b/c the Panasonic rep that I talked to called it that. Regardless it is a drive/part that plays CD's, SD DVD and BD DVD's. I forgot to clearly state that when I swapped both drives/part. Those two drives/part played flawlessly CD's, SD DVD's and BD DVD's. I apologize for NOT making that clear.
Thank you

Don't sweat it. He was just busting your ... cookies.

If that is the case then his "cookie busting" is an unacceptable poor taste joke...
Don't we have a gentlemen's agreement to prevent garbage like that particularly when my post is totally relevant?
Thank you

Now .. you're busting .. my .. cookies?

Let's put this into perspective; new BD players are just a couple of hundred dollars, so how much time, energy and $$$ are you going to spend to get a 3-yr old design player working again? My experience with the BD30 is that it works until it doesn't. If it fails outside of warranty, you move on. If it's *just* outside of warranty, you gnash your teeth and curse a bit, but you move on.

Jeff

hello all, I have a panasonic dmp bd30 paired with a onkyo 607 receiver, infinity primus speakers and a samsung pn58b650 plasma.can anyone please help me with the optimum setting for all my devices to achieve great picture and sound,I seem to always be fiddling with everything and I am pretty green when it comes to home theater although I am learning and having a blast doing so.I have become quite addicted to this and my wife thinks I might have to go to rehab

First things first. Read the manual and then go by what you like. You can also buy one of those BD TV tuner discs. It will ultimately come down to what you like, but if you really are not sure, just buy one of those discs. It helped me get the contrast settings correct. The sound is to YOUR ear and no one else's.

All those buttons and knobs you paid for are there for a reason. Different individuals perceive sound and video differently. Fiddle away and tell your wife to find a hobby.

Any issues playing Avatar blu ray? Just read on Digital Bits that some blu ray players (didn't say what manufacturer) are having issues and need firmware updates due to some new digital rights protection on the disc. I am still waiting for my copy from Amazon.