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Summary: Dead after 4 months? Pathetic.
Review: Nice little unit. Did everything we wanted. We bought it 4 months ago and last week the remote died. We replaced batteries, we bought a new remote. It didn't help. The unit works, but you cannot make it function without a remote. The warranty is 90 days only, so it's $100 to repair. What's the point of that? I'm very disappointed.
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Summary: This is the best!!!
Review: Ok, some people have had complaints about this product not performing, but I can seriously say that this is one of the best players on the market. Why, you ask? It has a function that no other player in it's price range has: position memory. Say you don't want to finish a dvd, just hit the button on the remote to save your spot. You can put in any other dvd you want, but when you put the disc with the saved spot, it recognizes the exact location where you previously had stopped including all the settings (dts, subtitles, etc). It plays smoothly, has great slow mo and fast forward, the remote is sturdy, and it has surround sound options when you use headphones through a receiver. I've had other players in the past, including Sony, and this one blows them all out of the water.
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Summary: Still Waiting
Review: Ordered this in early December and now they say it may not come until March. However the product page says usually ships in 24 hours. This is truly crazy.
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Summary: Where Is It
Review: Ordered this item early December and still waiting for it.
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Summary: Not as good as I expected, but can suffer
Review: Overall, it is a good DVD player, with progressive scan and at this price. But I cannot play SVCD and DVD+R/RW with it, which are some nice features Panasonic should add on. The set up key is hard to use after the first time set-up. And I often press the wrong buttons on the remote control, they are not in a good design.
It is good, but not as good as I expected.
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Summary: Panasonic could learn a few things from other manufacturers
Review: Panasonic could learn a few things from other manufacturers. Back when most standard DVD players were averaging [money], I bought a [money] G.E. unit. Everyone told me I was nuts, and I would be sorry. I have never had trouble with it in 3 years, and it carries some standard features, that I thought, were standard on all DVD players, but Panasonic has convinced me otherwise.1. If I was too tired to watch a movie until the end, I would stop the movie, and shutdown the unit. When I was ready to resume, I would turn the power on, and it would start EXACTLY where I left off. Panasonic DOES NOT do that. Even if you just hit stop, and leave the power on, it makes you start from the beginning, searching & searching until you finally figure out where you left off. 2. When I paused a movie on the G. E. unit, after 5 mins, the unit would go into a screen saver type mode, and it would go to the unit's main logo. That logo would would fade in & out, as to not burn any images onto the screen. By simply pressing "Play" it began where you left off. If in screen saver mode too long the unit would even power itself down, but simply powering back up at anytime, it resumes playback at the precise point where you left off. The Panasonic unit DOES NOT have this feature, it stays paued as long as you leave it that way, leaving you with possible screen burn. The 1st feature mentioned above is very important, and I think when you're supposedly upgrading to a finer unit like Panasonic, that a simple feature like that would be standard, but I was wrong. I WILL NEVER buy another Panasonic DVD player again, based on the fact that when I called them about this, they really didn't seem to care what I liked or did not like. All they did was note my account of my complaint. They also told me that they never heard of those features on ANY DVD player on the market! If that's true, the Panasonic R & D department needs to leave their offices more than once every 10 years, and maybe ask a question or 2 from users of other units. They might even go one step further, and actually use another unit to maybe see what it can do. In a word "PANASONIC [STINKS]" Beware!!
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Summary: A cheap but perfect dvd player
Review: This dvd player is a very good progressive player for the price range. It plays everything smoothly from regular dvd, dvd-audio, mp3 to vcd and svcd. I've owned other more expensive dvd players but none come close to this one. If you just like to listen to cd music you will be amaze on how the "re-master" feature on this player help to push the sound to another level. The menus is very easy to navigates and the picture is beautiful.
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Summary: Plays ALL 5 DVD Formats!!
Review: This unit plays DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, and DVD-RAM without any problems! One of the best players currently on the market and at an attractive price!!
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Summary: Great player, great price
Review: To ktk3438 who gave this player 1 star, in part because it doesn't have a feature to save the disk position - this player can do that, you need to hit a button on the remote to save the position. This player has a great picture even when only connected to an analog TV with an s-video cable. I haven't got around to getting component cables yet. The optical out provides great sound with both dvds and cds. I haven't tested the jpeg viewing capability yet. For the feature set, picture and sound quality at this price - it's hard to beat..
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Summary: Nice DVD and DVD-R, Lousy JPEG and totally lacking S-Video
Review: We justified the purchase of a new DVD player so that we could play back our JPEG photo disks and also our multi-album 'favorites' of MP3/WMA music disks, none of which our three year old DVD player can handle. The Panasonic S55S was sent back within three days. I tried out some of my DVD-R disks (Memorex 4X and 'Pro-Line' 1X) along with CD-R disks (Memorex 48X 80 Min) and they all worked flawlessly. The reason for the return was two fold;
1) No S-Video output; Until we upgrade our TV we have only analog or S-Video input available. I used the enclosed analog video cable and got a really lousy picture. Perhaps a better quality analog cable may have improved things, but I did not try one. The picture quality was poor and was especially noticiable on still images such as titles, jpegs or the FBI warning screen. The DVD player had only nickel plated RCA-jack analog and component video outputs, plus right/left channel audio and a digital output. No S-Video output was unacceptable. I thought ALL units had that! 2) Slow and jerky JPEG playback. When a CD with a lot of JPEGS from our five megapixal digital camera was inserted (average file size around 850k), the picture was displayed and the option for slide show became available. Unfortunately, it took several seconds (probably only about five each, but it seemed like 30) for the image to slowly appear on the screen as though it was downloading from an old 14.4k dial-up internet connection. Combine this slow picture display with a very fuzzy image and the experience was just sad. The unit may have technically met spec's, but it was not realistically usable and was a big step backwards from connecting our laptop to the TV via S-Video and looking at pictures that way! Amazon took the unit back very easily. Kudos' to Amazon.
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