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Summary: Poor Picture nice features
Review: I have a 32" letterbox Toshiba TV (NOT high definition). I put in a DVD and then used the zoom to fill the tv screen. The picture quality degraded very badly. Be clear, it was not a minor amount. The faces became blurred and the colors turned to mush. I tried everything in the manual to correct the problem. I tried the same test on my old Philips DVD player and the picture only degraded a minor amount. I am not recommending Philips because it has a hard time with episode DVD's, remote is bad news, and loading is forever.I am not a picky detailed person. If something works okay that is good enough. I do not expect perfection. The remote on the Panasonic was okay and the DVD tray opened quickly. See, I found something good to say about the Panasonic.
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Summary: Hmmm - not up to spec
Review: I have owned over $100,000 of Panasonic manufactured devices, professional video and audio equipment, phones, bread machines, VCRs, and DVD players. All of the equipment that I have owned from Panasonic has been great with the exception of their DVD players.
The first Panasonic DVD player I owned was the DVD-RP62 - Easy to setup, Awesome picture and sound, but the player skipped scenes, played intermittently, and finally, died after 10 months of light use. Yesterday I purchased the DVD-S35 - brought it home, set it up, and put in a DVD. The sound of the DVD was immediately apparent, it sounded like one of those wind up rubber band airplanes. An error popped up on the display indicating that I had put put in the wrong disk. I ejected the disk and checked it and replaced it. This time, it skipped the first two scenes of the movie, and started at the third scene where it immediately froze, stuttered, and jumped to the next scene.
Panasonic has been a great company for every product I have ever owned. But I will never buy a Panasonic DVD player again.
Rating: 
Summary: Fantastic Product with a fantastic price
Review: If there is a better DVD player for the price, I haven't found it. I recommended this to a friend who was amazed with the features and quality for the price. My friend has now purchased a couple of more for his family. I'm thinking of buying another one the other tv in the house.
Rating:
Summary: Great Buy
Review: I looked at Harman Kardon And Onkyo, and this was a best buy by far for the features, reliability, and price. You can also add an extended warranty directly through Panasonic, but you probaly wont need it based upon Panasonic reliability history. I must say I did find it less expensive at Target and Wal-mart $59 after rebate, but even at $79 after rebate at Amazon it is a great buy. There was not a S-video cable included, but at least it had batteries included for the remote and rca cables.
Rating: 
Summary: One Aggravating Problem!
Review: Overall, this is a good unit, but if you're a movie snob like me, you may be annoyed by the brief pause that will happen during a layer change on any dual layer DVD (and almost ALL DVDs are dual layer these days). I find the pause distracting - I thought the whole point of DVD was to see a "perfect" version of a movie. Most other players do not have this problem, but a customer service rep at Panasonic told me that ALL Panasonic DVD players have this pause during layer changes. My 5 year old RCA player didn't even have this problem, and most DVD tech sites will tell you that any decent player shouldn't have this problem either. I'll still give it three stars because it's a GREAT Mp3/WMA player and it does a good job with VCDs, SVCDS, and DVDRs. Ironically, the only place that this DVD player fails is in playing DVDs!
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Summary: Plays Everything Great!
Review: I got this as a second player, specifically because my older ( and much more expensive) unit couldn't play JPEG files. This does so brilliantly. Very easy to set up, and it does a better job on every level with every kind of disk. Not to mention the price! This has now become my main machine.
Heartily recommended!
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Summary: variable zoom:best feature
Review: Buying an electronic product which isn't made by Sony is a first for me. As I have already invested a lot of money in 2 32" 4:3 Sony tvs 3 years ago I have been quite unhappy with the fact that now most of DVD movies are been made only in the widescreen aspect; this translate into having my 32" screens been cut in half (even though if some DVD offer the option between 4:3 or widescreen I just don't understand why they don't all offer this convenience unless they are set on creating a need to switch to a widescreen tv sooner than later but that's another story! ). That been said, I have no intention to replace my 3 year old tvs and therefore have been looking at restoring the size of their screen (when viewing a widescreen dvd) so when I heard of the zoom option on some DVD player that could do just that I went out to find out more. But if this option seems simple enough you really need to research what this feature means not only for each manufacturer but for each model. For example Sony has this option on some of its higher end models but it's really not related to getting rid of those black lines since at a minimum the picture size is doubled ( too much of the image would be lost). I also tried out a samsung which makes getting rid of the letterbox black lines part of its advertizing but if when used it works the picture seemed really streched. Panasonic or at least this model (since its version of combo DVD/VCR has a zoom feature similar to Sony) has 6 preset zoomed aspects on top of possible additional fine adjustments which not only makes it easy to get rid of these black lines but makes it possible to find just the right balance so that the picture maintains its quality while losing as little screen size as possible, in comparison with Samsung the picture on this model can be made bigger while maintaining its quality. If you own a widescreen tv or simply these black lines don't bother you then maybe there is a better option for a similar investment but you really want a full picture on your 4:3 tv when viewing a widescreen dvd and still maintain a quality picture than this model is a great buy!
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Summary: A Best Buy
Review: This is one of the best products that I have ever purchased. I was new to DVD and wanted to make sure that I bought a DVD player that was high in quality, high in realiabilty, and low in price (A combination that is rather hard to come-by). The Panasonic met all of my expectations and then some. I love it so much that I bought two more, one for each of my sisters. If you want an excellent DVD player at an Excellent price, then this one is probably the right one for you...It certainly gets my recomendation.
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Summary: Pleased
Review: One minor issue. This DVD does not have a composite digital audio out. It does have the optical audio out. My fault for not noticing it, but if you want to carry a digital signal to a surround sound system you will need an optical cable. Other than that, it's very user friendly. Even for those that are not technically inclined, the menu will walk you through a first time set up. Very nice unit.
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Summary: Good for one week?
Review: I bought 2 Panasonic s35s and one Panasonic s55s, panasonic s55s never worked,it has no power so i have to shipped it back to the merchant and the s35s works fine for a while!I was able to use it for one week and after that just like the other unit it was totally dead-no power! How frustrating, i used tho think that panasonic is durable because we have this panasonic TV that we have since i was a child and it's still okay but after my experience with their DVD i am having second thoughts. I think it was a Nightmare!
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