Panasonic DMP-BD77 Ultra-Fast Booting Blu-ray Disc Player Reviews

Published May 12, 2012 | By Electronics Guider

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1. LondonLover on May 12, 2012 at 12:58 pm said:

   9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

   
   Swing and a miss by Panasonic, April 7, 2012

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   Panasonic DMP-BD77 Ultra-Fast Booting Blu-ray Disc Player

   I own literally a house-full of Panasonic Video Equipment, one 65-inch plasma, one 55-inch plasma, two different Panasonic Blu-Ray video players. I was a little shocked by my recent purchase of the Panasonic DMP-BD-77 Blu-Ray Player.

   Bottom line: the motor in this player is loud, really loud. It sounds exactly like a cheap CD-ROM drive in a desktop computer. I guess that is how Panasonic makes this player “Ultra-Fast Booting” by spinning the disc at a super-high speed. This sound the player makes is very distracting. There are several issues here…..

   To be fair, the high-speed “shifting” noise occurs when the Blu-Ray disc is being read, searched or when skipping between chapters. When running at “normal” speed while watching your movie, you may not notice the sound as it would be naturally masked by the sound of your program. I must say however, that even in “normal” play mode the motor in this new player is much louder than the Panasonic Blu-Ray player it replaced.

   If you select the “fast start” option during setup (I believe it is the default, and most folks will….) then as long as there is a disc inserted in the player, and the player is powered on, there will be a very audible “clicking” sound emitted by the player. This “clicking” is very annoying and apparent if say you have a disc inserted in the player but happen to be watching Netflix. The player just sits there and and clicks away. If you go into the setup menu and disable the “fast start” option, it appears to eliminate this standby clicking sound.

   Another sad negative about this player is the uber-primitive menu system. Apparently Panasonic has abandoned its Viera-Cast menu system and this new stripped-down menu is really poor. It is confusing, and worse, icons are selected the moment they are touched by the on-screen cursor. What I mean is that the act of moving the cursor onto an on-screen menu icon activates the icon. This is different from almost every other menu system where moving a cursor highlights an icon, and then the user presses “select” or “OK” to actually activate the icon. If my explanation sounds confusing, then just wait until you try this menu system yourself. Very frustrating.

   Ultimately I purchased this player to replace an (apparently much higher-quality) older Panasonic Blu-Ray player that did not have Netflix capability. This player has both Netflix and Vudu capability which both appear to work fine. The picture and sound quality of this player are also good.

   Admittedly, it was only $90, but I am shocked that Panasonic, considering where they place themselves in the consumer video market, would let something like this out the door with their name on it. I would pass this one by…….

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2. Ryan on May 12, 2012 at 1:26 pm said:

   5 of 6 people found the following review helpful

   
   DO NOT BUY!, April 18, 2012

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   Ryan –

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   This player, and all 2012 model year Panasonic players, contain Cinavia copy protection embedded in the player. The player will forbid you from playing certain discs and movie files, even if legally obtained and owned. During playback, it checks for the Cinavia watermark and if found on the disc, USB drive, or network file, it will mute the audio and pop up with a message saying you do not have the right to play back this protected content.

   Do not buy a Blu-Ray player that contains Cinavia content protection system. Check out the Wikipedia entry for Cinavia for more information on the system and a list of discs and films that embed this watermark.

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3. Dr. F. Mark Carter on May 12, 2012 at 2:11 pm said:

   4 of 6 people found the following review helpful

   
   Avoid this player, April 10, 2012

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   Dr. F. Mark Carter –
   
     

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   This player is designed to catch you, and it caught me. This player has no built in Wi-Fi. This is a problem. BD players have to connect to the NET, to update, otherwise it will get out of date and stop playing discs with updated HDCP codes.

   It has a USB port for a wireless LAN, but the catch is it will not work with an off the shelf unit like one from Linksys or Netgear. It will only work with the Panasonic DY-WL5. This is $49 and almost impossible to find. I think I have found one at Percy’s. I hope it arrives.

   Unless you can direct wire an Ethernet connection to your router from this unit, you must add $49 to the cost of this player.

   The next issue is the menu. It comes up on the TV screen every time you start the player, and the settings are easily changed inadvertently. I bought this unit for an area to be used by my grandchildren, but this assinine piece of design makes that unwise.

   The player makes a loud wine loading the disc, and the loading is not that fast but adequate. It is not as fast as my Oppo player which does not wine.

   The picture and audio quality are satisfactory.

   Be warned that this unit does not have component outs. The only analog connections are two channel analog and composite video.

   So picture resolutions over 480i are only available via HDMI. Surround sound from DTS Master HD and Dolby True HD, are only available from HDMI also. There is no SPDIF audio output.

   This unit is not worth the money, and is a purchase I regret. It is not the good deal it seems.

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