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Summary: Limited life
Review: After 15 months of use the player no longer plays DVDs. It simply displays an error "H02" Many others have experienced the same problem and it costs roughly $100 to repair.
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Summary: Fantastic service & a great price
Review: After researching DVD players on Panasonic's website, I decided the S55 was perfect for us.
The only local retailer that carried this product was Target, but they where $26 more than Amazon.
I made the purchase on Amazon's website on Sunday, and the product was delivered by UPS on Wednesday(3days later). I even opted for the Free-Shipping. So for $104 it was delivered to my door.
The product itself has been flawless, it's played every Media I have thrown at it. It has no problems playing the DVD's my GE Player refused to play.
It apperas as though the S55 will be replacing the S25 & S35.
Amazon Rules!!
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Summary: mine also died after ~15 months
Review: Aside from lack of shuffle and the DVD logo pointlessly being on the screen my default when CDs were played (forcing me to hit "Audio Only" quite often), this was a great DVD player.
However, as has been the case with other customers, my player simply stopped reading all discs (error code H02) after about fifteen months.
Too bad Panasonic decided to issue a "disposable" product like this!
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Summary: This is one sweet dvd player
Review: Big pluses imho: 1. Bookmarks
2. WMA support (in addition to MP3, etc)
3. Amazon's price was not just competitive, it was amazing.
4. Arrived to my door in great shape All the other goodies are here too: built-in decoders (sometimes it's really useful to have these built-in), zoom support, simulated surround sound (which actually works), DVD Audio/VCD/JPEG/MP3 support, speaker delay setting, progressive scan, etc. I personally found the on-screen display/setup to be easy to use & quite sophisticated for this level of price. Also, according to reviews elsewhere, this model is one of the absolute latest panasonics out there, with the latest/greatest firmware, etc. - in other words, people often thought that dvds look better played on this model, relative to other players in the same or slightly higher price range. Mine was built in June 2003. For what it's worth, decide whether you need built-in decoders or not, if you want to save money. I personally wasn't willing to live without them or bookmarks, and amazon's price for them (and all of the above) was still amazing. This thing hooked right up & worked flawlessly straight out of the box.
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Summary: Unit does indeed have S-Video Out.
Review: Contrary to what another reviewer says, the DVD-S55S actually does have S-Video Output. I can't imagine why someone who craved S-Video Out so badly couldn't find it on the back of the unit. It's right on the end of the jack cluster, marked with big black letters and an arrow! [I concur that there is no S-Video Input -- with which to pass through a camcorder signal -- but that's probably to be expected in a player that has, and lists, no record capability!]
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Summary: Features & Great Styling Don't Translate To The Screen
Review: Features & Great Styling Don't Translate To The Screen I bought a Panasonic S55S with high hopes, based on reviews of the models it has just replaced, several of which used the Faroudja FLI2200 deinterlacing chip, without advertising that fact on the outside or tech specs. The RP82 and XP30 in particular had great pictures. Talk is that for the S55S Panasonic shifted to an in house produced deinterlacing chip. The S55S has wonderful styling, a very good remote, and just about every form of setting, adjustment, multiple picture output profile (Cinema 1, Cinema 2, User, Fine, Soft, Normal, etc.), picture noise filtering, picture gamma and color adjustment and more informative pop up data bars than you could possibly want. It supports all kinds of other audio and video formats, including high bit rate DVD-audio, but not SACD. It's very reasonably priced. The LCD display on the front is sharp and easy to read and shows icons for all the various modes the player may be in. Faroudja FLI2200 Unfortunately, it also has a basically good but also very flawed picture, that has trouble delivering film like movement without noticeable artifacts and non film like blurring, and which is rather contrasty with plugged up shadows, even with full use of the picture adjustment tools provided. The Denon DVD-910 by comparison has the styling of a brick, a very minimalist, uninformative and hard to read LCD display on the front panel, hard to read labels on the black face plate, a really clunky remote, hardly any adjustments at all, doesn't support many of the extended DVD and picture formats available on the S55S, and would appear to be inferior in every regard except one: the picture quality is outstanding and first rate in every way with none of the artifacts and picture gradation glitches visible in the S55S. The Denon DVD-910 is based on the same chipset combo that was used in the now discontinued and much sought after in the used market Panasonic RP-82. Basically, any DVD player based on the Panasonic RP-82 "kit", assembled at the same factory in China for a number of manufacturers, will completely smoke just about any player at any price point out there. There are several currently avilable players from Denon and Yamaha at price points all the way from $200.00 to $999.00 that use the same combo, including the Faroudja FLI2200 with DCDi deinterlacing, but MOST IMPORTANTLY a 54mhz 12-bit video DAC. So, don't buy a S55S? That depends on your set. The higher end and more unforgiving your set is the more the picture quality issues of the S55S become very important. If you're using a top of the line HDTV CRT or Plasma, you may be disappointed if you have experienced a better player to compare it to. If you're hooking up to a 27" or 32" conventional TV you may think it's an outstanding player. It cannot, however, stand up to players using the Faroudja FLI220 or FLI2310 chips with 54mhz (or faster) 12-bit video DACs (including Panasonic's own model from just last year) that value picture quality above features when the output device is good enough to show the difference.
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Summary: Horrible Warranty - Bad Customer Service
Review: Fortunately, this will be my last Panasonic product. I was happy with this DVD player (I don't ask for much) until it stopped reading *any* discs after 6 months. It produced an error on the screen. When I called to find out what the error meant, they said it was "still under warranty" and to send it in, which I did. After 4 weeks, they contact me to say that only the parts are covered for a year - labor is only 3 months. So the part is covered, but not the labor to put it in! They wanted sixty-five bucks to "fix" my DVD player, which was apparently under warranty. So, after spending 100 bucks on this unit, it's in the trash after 6 months. BUYER BEWARE - and pray your unit breaks within 90 days.
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Summary: Simply great
Review: I bought this DVD player after I bought a new computer. I wanted to burn a few DVDs and VCDs on my own and watch them on my TV. I researched DVD players and found this one, at a price I could afford .... It was money very well spent. This is a great DVD player. It will play regular, store-bought DVDs, burned DVD-Rs, burned VCDs, store-bought compact discs, burned CDs. I think it would play a piece of toast if I stuck it in there! The DVD also is very customizable. There are almost too many settings. I can be a bit confusing. But you can, using the user's manual, configure it any way you like. I found the options a little confusing at first, but useful in the end. You can program this thing to work with a surround sound or a simple two-speaker system. You also can set it to tone down the sounds for midnight viewing. I leave this midnight viewing option on all the time, because I get annoyed by DVDs with REALLY LOUD MUSIC and very soft dialogue.
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Summary: Pass on this one..
Review: I bought this DVD player after reading the reviews on here. Unfortunately, the DVD player skips DVDs consistently and I am not impressed by it at all. If I had to do again, I would probably get something else. I paid $112 for a below-average DVD player.
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Summary: good quality image , sound....
Review: i bought this player during my USA trip. it is great player and user friendly instructions to operate. it playes MP3/CD-RW without any problems.
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