The Official Panasonic DMP-BD30 Owner's Thread - Page 9

Originally Posted by shiznit

hey guys,

can someone please post some hi-res pictures of the dmp-bd30?? some of the front and back and even the box would be nice...

thanks much in advance!

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Originally Posted by jcs913

As others are starting to file in to the new BD30 gang, I have joined also with a 10% off CC coupon and some remaining rewards certs. My observations from playing 3 BD discs last night are as follows:

The images seem a touch sharper and the colors, especially reds and blues seem a little more vibrant than playback on the PS3. Load times are quicker than the PS3. I love the weight and small footprint. Fits great inside an already full component rack.

Audio is what we all bought this for, I assume. The bitstream to my Elite 92 is what we are paying for and it does not disappoint. The Dave Matthews BD playback as compared to the PS3 decding into PCM was much nicer. The center channel seemed more pronounced on the Panny than the PS3, where it seemed more laid back. I have one confusing observation though. On playback of X-Men3, that has DTS-HDMA 6.1, the receiver lights up correctly and even displays the 6th channel!! But, much to my surprise, an old friend poked out. Before the main movie begins, the good ole 'dial norm' shows up on the receiver for a quick second. Now I am aware that TrueHD is said to apply dial norm, this is still under discussion on different threads, but no where have I seen dial norm being applied to a DTS-HDMA track. I almost feel cheated. Is this normal for this disc, or for all DTS-HDMA discs? I only have the one to check it against now. I am curious to others observations, as I was under the impression that DTS-HDMA is the studio master and no dial norm or other processing is ever applied.

Overall, the $435 price, quick load times, better PQ than the PS3 and the all important bitstream of ALL the audio codecs is more than worth the investment to anyone that has a capable receiver.

Originally Posted by VeniceDre


I Don't have Spiderman 2 so I was wondering if anyone has tried this Disc yet since so many were having probs with it.

Originally Posted by Mark Booth

I do have one gripe about the DMP-BD30... What the heck is up with the big "blue" LED on the front of the unit? I thought it was called Blu-ray, not Aqua-ray! Panasonic should fire the colorblind engineer that made that decision! The LEDs on the front of my HD DVD player and the new Pioneer 94TXH are a much more sexy deep dark blue!

Is there anyway to tone it down? The BD30's nose is much brighter than the other two as well. I don't see a dimmer function on the remote. (The Universal Remote Control codes for the BD10 had a brightness button but it doesn't seem to work with the BD30.)

Mark

Originally Posted by Toe

I just checked out XMEN 3 and did not get the dial norm message on my 885 (I do get this brief message with some discs).

Originally Posted by JimP

I thought dial norm (dialog normalization) was strictly a Dolby Digital thing. That's probably why you're not seeing it on a DTS sound track.

Originally Posted by joerod

My Wife likes the teal color better... It should be blue... But if that is the most to complain about I think we are all good...

Originally Posted by joerod

1080p/24 playback and bitstream audio to newer receivers so they can decode the newer advanced audio codecs... Plus very fast LOAD times...

Originally Posted by Mark Booth

I do have one gripe about the DMP-BD30... What the heck is up with the big "blue" LED on the front of the unit? I thought it was called Blu-ray, not Aqua-ray! Panasonic should fire the colorblind engineer that made that decision! The LEDs on the front of my HD DVD player and the new Pioneer 94TXH are a much more sexy deep dark blue!

Is there anyway to tone it down? The BD30's nose is much brighter than the other two as well. I don't see a dimmer function on the remote. (The Universal Remote Control codes for the BD10 had a brightness button but it doesn't seem to work with the BD30.)

Mark

Originally Posted by jcs913

As others are starting to file in to the new BD30 gang, I have joined also with a 10% off CC coupon and some remaining rewards certs. My observations from playing 3 BD discs last night are as follows:

The images seem a touch sharper and the colors, especially reds and blues seem a little more vibrant than playback on the PS3. Load times are quicker than the PS3. I love the weight and small footprint. Fits great inside an already full component rack.

Audio is what we all bought this for, I assume. The bitstream to my Elite 92 is what we are paying for and it does not disappoint. The Dave Matthews BD playback as compared to the PS3 decding into PCM was much nicer. The center channel seemed more pronounced on the Panny than the PS3, where it seemed more laid back. I have one confusing observation though. On playback of X-Men3, that has DTS-HDMA 6.1, the receiver lights up correctly and even displays the 6th channel!! But, much to my surprise, an old friend poked out. Before the main movie begins, the good ole 'dial norm' shows up on the receiver for a quick second. Now I am aware that TrueHD is said to apply dial norm, this is still under discussion on different threads, but no where have I seen dial norm being applied to a DTS-HDMA track. I almost feel cheated. Is this normal for this disc, or for all DTS-HDMA discs? I only have the one to check it against now. I am curious to others observations, as I was under the impression that DTS-HDMA is the studio master and no dial norm or other processing is ever applied.

Overall, the $435 price, quick load times, better PQ than the PS3 and the all important bitstream of ALL the audio codecs is more than worth the investment to anyone that has a capable receiver.

Originally Posted by billymerritt

The big blue light on front is for the sd card and can be set to on/off in setup.