Comments for Panasonic DMP-BD30 Blu-ray Player - Full Review at http://www.hometheaterhifi.com , comment 1 to 22 out of 20 comments http://www.hometheaterhifi.com Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:24:50 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/dvd-players/281-a-secrets-dvd-player-review.html#comment-581 Still confused as to whether the BD-30k takes the full uncompressed LPCM (when there is such a track) decodes it fully and passes each channel on in the 5.1 analog output that then goes into my 6 year old Denon 5.1 analog input and passes through directly to the speakers? If so, how about the powered subwoofer which has a default of EXT In of a 15DB - should this be put back to 0DB for these LPCM tracks??? - stephenslippman@optonline.net Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:50:17 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/dvd-players/281-a-secrets-dvd-player-review.html#comment-412 Is this player compatible with an Onkyo TX-SR804 receiver? - ladykeybird Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:14:27 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/dvd-players/281-a-secrets-dvd-player-review.html#comment-280 I'd also like to request that future Secrets Reviews include info on how players perform at scaling to 720P. How accurately players scale to different resolutions is relevant info to many readers and it's a shame to see reviewers not include this info in their reviews. Secrets is not alone in it's failure to provide this info. For example, in the latest issue of Widescreen Review, I was a bit disappointed to see an article on the A35 HD DVD player also fail to include any info regarding this. For sites that have some of the most indepth reviews on player performance, including this pertinent info would be most welcome indeed. - Mark Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:18:33 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/dvd-players/281-a-secrets-dvd-player-review.html#comment-276 Yes, all you have to do is go to the top of the first page of the article, place your mouse cursor at the left end of the first letter in the title (in this case, to the left of the P in Panasonic), then hold the left button of the mouse down and drag the mouse to the bottom right corner of the text on that page. Then release the mouse button. That will highlight the text and graphics of the article but not the advertisements or other material. Then click (ctrl) (c). That copies the hightlighted text and photos. Go to MS Word, click (ctrl) (v) , which pastes the copied information into the window. Go back to the article and go to the second page, do the same thing, and copy it at the end of the first set of information in the MS Word window. Do that for page 3, and then save the MS Word file as a document. You can print it from there. - JEJ Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:04:48 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/dvd-players/281-a-secrets-dvd-player-review.html#comment-269 another 720p request, please. - lubmar Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:16:18 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/dvd-players/281-a-secrets-dvd-player-review.html#comment-268 I often want to save an article or review, but can't find a printable view feature on your site. Am I just not seeing it? I'm thinking of the ability to view & print the entire article withouth ads and without having to navigate to each page separately, then printing each page separately. - LM Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:47:58 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/dvd-players/281-a-secrets-dvd-player-review.html#comment-238 I'd also like to see all BRD player reviews have a section on 720p performance. I'd say more people out there with HD displays have 720p displays than 1080p displays (actually a big chunk probably have what I have - a 768p x 1365 plasma). It would be very helpful to those of us with - Kieran Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:27:01 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/dvd-players/281-a-secrets-dvd-player-review.html#comment-230 If I understand Kris' review correctly, it seems that the BD-30 also has the "1080p/i/p" issue. If this is true, then if it is set to output 1080p24, does the "1080p/i/p" process still occur or does it simply stream the 1080p24 data of the disc without converting it? - dicey Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:03:32 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/dvd-players/281-a-secrets-dvd-player-review.html#comment-228 So if I am understanding Kris' review correctly, the BD-30 also has the same issue that all the other currently available Blu-ray players have, i.e. they internally convert the native 1080p data on the disc into 1080i and then reconvert it back into 1080p? If this is true, then does the "1080p/i/p" process still occur if the player is set to output 1080p24? Thanks. - dicey Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:49:40 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/dvd-players/281-a-secrets-dvd-player-review.html#comment-226 Hi Johnny/Kris- Take it as a compliment that we want more of the SD benchmarking for Blu-Ray players AND we want reviews faster. When the SD Benchmark first came out, many players were benchmarked at once. If our player was not in there, we were begging you guys to hurry up and add it. I would like the see the tradditional SD score on these Blu-Ray (and HD DVD) benchmarks and a similar score-set on the HD performance. I am hoping you can do a score of some sort for each resolution because I have a mix of displays in my home. Thanks! - WS Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:09:31 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/dvd-players/281-a-secrets-dvd-player-review.html#comment-220 Get out! That rocks! Thanks Mr. Anonymous! - ender21 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:22:35 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/dvd-players/281-a-secrets-dvd-player-review.html#comment-219 ender21, New firmware (v.1.6) was released today that fixes the LFE PCM over HDMI bug. - anon1 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:23:07 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/dvd-players/281-a-secrets-dvd-player-review.html#comment-215 Since Kris Deering frequents AVS Forum and has a great deal of experience with the great Disney Blu-Ray titles out there, I would have thought he'd mention that PCM audio over HDMI is 5dB low in the Subwoofer channel. This affects PCM audio over HDMI *only,* so other audio formats bitstreaming, and PCM over analog are unaffected. The last I checked Panasonic was "looking into the issue." Having said that, I'm incredibly happy with my BD-30 into Integra 9.8 AVP. - ender21 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:53:17 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/dvd-players/281-a-secrets-dvd-player-review.html#comment-212 While your articles are quite thorough on 1080p blu-ray performance, I am the owner of a 720p projector (Sharp xv-z12000 Mk2) and like many other dlp and lcd owners, we won't be trading up for a while. It would be extremely helpful if you could describe how well these players perform at 720p. Thank you, - Dennis Korabiak Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:11:39 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/dvd-players/281-a-secrets-dvd-player-review.html#comment-208 Just wanted to say the new format is great. The review of the panny 30 was very informative. I would like to point out that including pricing would most probably be the only misleading inclusion in your good reviews when circuit city changes prices on a daily/hourly basis, not to mention regional disparity. No good deed goes unpunished, but please keep up the great work! I understand the BD-50 will be 2.0 compliant for about $100 more in Q2 08. - North of 49 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:23:06 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/dvd-players/281-a-secrets-dvd-player-review.html#comment-207 Just picked up this player to mate wiyh my Onkyo TX-SR805. Watched Shoot 'em up in DTS-HD MASTER AUDIO and all I can say is WOW!!!!! So far I love this player and will still use my Denon DVD-2900 for SD-DVD playback anyway, that is if I can tear myself away from the amazing experience of Blue-ray and the new audio codecs. By the way love the new format of your site, find it much easier to read and looks more professional. - c21mark Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:43:06 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/dvd-players/281-a-secrets-dvd-player-review.html#comment-206 I have added the spec section to the beginning of the Full Review article, just as we have for previous articles. I thought we would have the new benchmark section set up by now and I was going to put it all in there, but we are not done yet. We did have a meeting here in Redwood City last weekend, and the new HD tests were settled upon, but it is still going to take some time to finish everything. - JEJ Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:29:41 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/dvd-players/281-a-secrets-dvd-player-review.html#comment-205 Not to say I agree with the tone of either Mutha or JEJ, but I do wish that the new format included an information box at the beginning of article (which I believe the old format did include). I also wasn't sure what the price of the player was and I don't think that clicking a random link in the middle of the article to find the price is intuitive, especially when half of the links are for advertisements. I usually check the beginning or end of an article for specifications, which seems pretty standard. No complaints about the amount of articles or anything else though. - nobirth Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:11:44 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/dvd-players/281-a-secrets-dvd-player-review.html#comment-204 Only about 1% of readers who have contacted us say they don't like the new website design. Everyone else has said they love it. The new format is labor intensive only for us, not the readers. We are still publishing new content at a rate of about three per week. That has not changed in years. If you look at other sites you will see we have more published reviews than anyone else. The MSRP of this player is $499.95 as stated in the Benchmark review linked on page 1 of the current article. It appears your critique is without substance except perhaps for the point about your being blind. - JEJ Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:23:03 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/dvd-players/281-a-secrets-dvd-player-review.html#comment-203 Hi Kris I have just acquired the Onkyo TX-SR875 and am thinking of pairing it with this Panny BD-30. Question? If I pass the video signal of SD DVD from the Panny thru the Onkyo which has the better HQV processor, would this improve the quality of picture for SD DVD? Thanks. - pwb Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:18:11 +0100