Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Panasonic DMP-BDT110 Wi-Fi Ready 3D/2D Blu-ray Disc Player

Panasonic DMP-BDT110 Wi-Fi Ready 3D/2D Blu-ray Disc Player
Netflix works great (with latest firmware) 
Amazon Video on Demand works great (Enter key pauses, not the pause button) 
Pandora works great 
Blu Ray discs look amazing 
DVDs upconvert well 

Device will output to HDMI, optical audio, analog audio, and composite video at the same time (except if you do 24p blu ray, separate mode)! This was huge for me to be able to support an HD projector and older analog LCDs from the same box. PS3 will not, many devices will not. 

Iphone remote app not released yet, but anxiously awaiting it. 

I did not buy this for 3D and have no immediate plans to go there. Marketing is heavy for that feature, but this is just a great player/streamer/set top box. 

I struggled over WD Live, Roku, Google TV, HTPCs, PS3, etc... for a long time. Finally this was released and it does almost everything. For only a few bucks more than a media streamer, you get a blu-ray/dvd player built right in. Menus are intuitive ...within 10 minutes I had already set up my pandora, netflix, amazon VoD and was streaming. 

Perfect? No. Menus are acceptable, but not snappy to load. Sometimes netflix appears to drop frames w/ 5mbps fibre connection (screen will blank occasionally on some movies, not all, maybe a half dozen times through a movie if it seems to have the issue). Amazon streams have been flawless. Annoying that the iPhone app isn't out yet, after all it was a selling point for me. 

I have not yet tried local drives for audio/video ...or LAN files for that matter. I didn't really buy this device for that, but now I'm hoping I can get my media through here too. This only supports a wired network connection out of the box, which was fine for my application. 

FYI, 
If you want wifi built in get the BDT210. That step up also gets you some tube audio effects and a touchless disc tray opening feature. 
If you don't care about the 3D or iPhone control (or some other AV upgrades) the BD75 is also quite capable and supports most of the same features.

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