Panasonic Blu Ray Player

Panasonic Blu-ray Players

Panasonic blu ray players incorporate some of the most advanced industry-standard features available today. They are also innovators and have several unique features available to help make your Blu-ray viewing a more enjoyable experience. Panasonic was founded in 1918 and is the largest electronics manufacturer in Japan. They build a variety of products including audio systems, Digital TV’s and Blu-ray players. They have been a supporter of the Blu-ray standards from the beginning.

Full Dolby decoding – The Panasonic blu ray player has the ability to decode both Dolby standards. It has an onboard decoding for both DTS-HD Master Audio as well as Dolby TrueHD. This means that unlike other players on the market that require an audio receiver to decode the signal, this Panasonic blu ray player will decode it for you directly. By providing 7.1-channel surround sound support with the player, you can enjoy a wider variety of audio formats that modern Blu-ray discs use. This provides a much crisper and deeper audio experience and sets this Panasonic blu-ray player apart from other players in this price range.

HDMI – The Panasonic blu ray player provides an HDMI connector, which will enable you to view your Blu-ray content with the highest possible quality. This HDMI connector provides both video and audio connections in one cable. It also provides the connection needed for more advanced features like Viera Link that will allow you to control several audio and video components with a single remote. This HDMI cable eliminates the needs for separate audio and video cables, making the installation less complicated and less expensive as well.

Cinema quality – Panasonic blu ray players have the ability to play Blu-ray discs at a 24 frame per second rate with full 1080p resolution. Most films are shot at 24fps, so being able to play them at their native format will enhance the quality of the content considerably. Other players that do not support this mode need to convert the content to a lesser quality resolution and the picture quality suffers as a result. Panasonic blu ray players do not need to convert this content and can play it natively, just like the director intended.

Ultra-slim design – The Panasonic blu-ray players are slimmer than most Blu-ray players and will compliment any décor. They accomplish this reduction in size by utilizing a new thinner LSI chip called UniPhier, developed by Panasonic. This custom chip incorporates several other individual components needed in other players into a single package. This allows this Panasonic blu ray player to be designed with a smaller profile, since it requires less space..

Variety of resolutions – The Panasonic blu-ray players support all of the current standards for picture quality at a variety of resolutions. Current supported formats include 420p, 720p, 1080i and 1080p. This means that no matter what type of TV or monitor you are connecting to the Panasonic blu-ray player, you will have no trouble enjoying the content at the proper resolution. The Panasonic blu-ray players also give you a choice of aspect ratios as well and can display content at both 16:9 and 4:3 to compliment any sized screen.

BD Live – A Panasonic blu-ray player will enable you to play additional content and extras related to the film you are watching, over the internet. This additional content can be many things including games, trailers for upcoming movies, contests, and even deleted scenes. BD Live will allow you to access all of this content and really enhances your viewing experience.

Profile 2.0 compliant – This feature enables network access to additional content and extras. Some Blu-ray discs include additional options that can only be enjoyed with a network connection. A Panasonic blu ray player is equipped to handle this content. Simply connect a Panasonic blu-ray player to the internet through its LAN connection on the back panel, insert an SD memory card and you’re all set. This standard is found on a variety of players and is being used more frequently on Blu-ray discs to enhance your viewing pleasure.

Upconvert standard DVD – A Panasonic blu ray player is fully backward compatible with older formats and will play these standards as well as the newer Blu-ray discs. It can play standard DVD’s and will actually upconvert them to 1080p for an even better picture quality than if they were played on a standard DVD player. In addition to DVD’s a Panasonic blu ray player can also play other discs including DVD-R, DVD-R RL and CD-R / CD-RW. It also supports a full range of video formats for pictures and videos recorded on these discs. A Panasonic blu ray player even has support for the Divx standard and can play discs containing video encoded with Divx, which further expands your video choices.

SD memory slot – Most Panasonic blu-ray players have an SD memory slot that will allow you to view JPEG photos and video through the player. This slot is also used for the BD Live function.

Deep Color feature – A Panasonic blu ray player has a very advanced video processing feature called PHL Reference Chroma Processor Plus that enhances the color output of a Blu-ray disc. This development resulted from collaboration between Panasonic and the major Hollywood studios, and allows the Panasonic blu-ray player to produce a truer color spectrum than most players. When used with an HDMI connection, the Panasonic blu-ray player can enable a wider range of colors and a deeper depth of color as well. This results in a smoother transition between colors since the Panasonic blu-ray player has a larger color pallet to use for displaying content. Other players are limited in their color choices and the more abrupt transition between colors near the edges of objects is more noticeable and can be distracting to the viewer. A Panasonic blu-ray player suffers from none of this because of its enhanced color processing.

Viera Link – This is a feature that enables a Panasonic blu ray player to pass commands along to other components in your media center. This means that with a single remote, you can control any device that supports the HDMI CEC standard.