| Customer Reviews: Average Rating: 4.5/5 |
| Christmas 2009: Rating: 5/5 |
| Fantastic, Got it for my Mother-in-Law for my partner, love it, works well, and good value. |
| Great value and well thought out, integrates well with Viera TVs: Rating: 4/5 |
This is a fantastic Blu-ray player from Panasonic - I bought this primarily because I have a Viera Panasonic television and I can therefore integrate it with my TV through the Viera link. One less remote control is a great plus point and I've always been impressed with the quality of Panasonic multimedia products.
It's easy to set up - just plug it in, connect with an HDMI cable, and you're away. There's an option to connect it to an Ethernet connection too but I haven't tried this out as yet. A nice surprise was that I could control my amplifier volume with the remote control by coding in the relevant "key" - so finally I can control everything when watching a DVD with the single remote.
The quality of picture is excellent and it upscales old DVDs without issue. Very impressive. I'm using it with a 32" 1080i Television and sitting around 6ft away you couldn't tell the difference between 1080p and 1080i. Sound is also good, and the remote is easy to use too. There are a few "power user" menus but most people won't have to worry about any of it.
The only negatives are the start up time, although you can put it on a "quick start" mode - but this consumes power which kind of defeats the object. The delayed start up also gets in the way of swapping discs. If I forget to hit the disk eject button first I have to wait a while for it to start up before I can eject the disc - if the first thing I hit is the eject button then all is fine. A minor irritation really.
Also I haven't managed to find the right button to go straight to the main menu on an old normal resolution DVD. I tried this on an old DVD to make sure it's not just Blu-ray and it still happened - maybe it is there somewhere but it's not obvious. The "top menu" button just returns an invalid operation message.
I can easily put up with these tiny issues, and my overall score is 4 stars. |
| Excellent purchase and price: Rating: 4/5 |
The blu ray player was easy to set up and is extremely multipurpose. As well as playing blu ray discs it's great at up-scale dvds as well as playing other disc formats.
Only thing is i find it's a little slow at turning on and off and waiting for the disc to load, but don't think this is any worse then any other blu ray player. |
| Panasonic BD60EB Blu-ray Disc Player: Rating: 5/5 |
Excellent quality as you would expect from Panasonic.
Set up with Sony AV system and Jamos speakers - very realistic HD sound and excellent picture quality.Very user friendly.Ordinary DVDs look great as well.CDs also sound great. |
| Terrific buy: Rating: 5/5 |
| Great value for what appears to be a brand new product. Only use it for my grandson's stuff so far but all in all a most satisfactory purchase. |
