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Summary: One very surprising flaw!
Review: Since the DVD-RP82s is not featured for write up, I will use it's cousin, which coincidently does have the exact same problem.The unit itself is slim and sharp looking. The picture and sound quality are exceptional, certainly better than anything I have ever seen from many other units. Panasonic seems to have one very serious flaw. It's complete inability to function when confronted by interactivity laced DVD movies. I can provide two solid examples of where this can be seen. On any InfiniFilm film, such as Austin Powers Goldmember or Rush Hour 2. Also, the Ken Burns Baseball series. The common denominator of these offerings are their on-screen interactivity. In the case of InfiniFilm, you are given two options. To watch the film alone, or to watch the film with Infinifilm interactivity. Regardless of whatever you select, the Panasonic units cripple themselves whenever a section of the movie, which is Infinifilm coded, appears. Sure, you are watching just the film, but Infinifilm is overlayed on top. The Panasonic units cannot pause, forward, reverse, just about anything except STOP does not function. You are greeted with a wonderful rejection signal on the top right corner of your screen. In the Ken Burns Baseball series, the appearance of the PBS logo at the bottom left corner, which indicates interactivity to a players baseball card profile. Once again, the Panasonic unit crippled itself and simply could not get over the hurdle of interactivity laced in the feature itself. Sure, there are ways around this...Stop or quick replay will usually eliminate the interactive internal signal that the unit seemingly cannot remove or get around. But why should you have to? I have tried these very films/features on other comparable units and have not experienced this problem. I tried many other identical Panasonic units at the Best Buy, which endeared me to them, I'm certain. All 6 units failed in this most basic premise of DVD's...Interactivity. I have contacted Panasonic and they deny all such claims and state that their units do function as others do. When I explained to them that I tried 6 different units and my own, all with the identical flaw...They denied it to even be a flaw and that it was a problem with the media. When I explained that I tried over a dozen other units with said media and all experienced no such problems, I was told that it was still a media problem. I am writing this review to warn you all about a flaw and problem with the Panasonic units. It may not seem like an awful lot, but trust me, when you have to take a bio-break in the middle of one of these movies/features and you cannot pause your unit...You will understand that this is not a normal function. The picture and sound are exceptional, but the flaw is a show-stopper. The future indicates more interactivity in DVD's. If Panasonic cannot handle the most basic, you can only imagine how frustrated you will be in future when all DVD's are programmed this way.
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Summary: HO7 error
Review: Stay away from this machine. The minute you get the "HO7" error, you will regret ever spending a penny on it. I need to buy a new player now, at a time I can least afford it!
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Summary: RP-62 Uses Sage/Faroudja DCDi Technology!
Review: Thats right, the new Panasonic DVD RP-62 series all use the Sage/Faroudja FLI2200 chipset with DCDi. Just like its predecessor, the RP-56, you won't find any indication on the box, brochures or player. But hidden inside and difficult to find due to the bottom-side mounting on the video board, there it is. For those unfamiliar, the Sage chipset is the premier deinterlacer/line doubler video processor used mainly in high-end equipment. Its ability to produce stunning video with no artifacts is unparalleled by competitive processors. Want proof? See for yourself: Do a web search on "DVD Shootout #2" and follow the link. This is a sleek and fantastic performing DVD player. Progressive scan output is incredible but even the S-Video output performs extremely well. The only drawback is the lack of a digital coaxial audio output and clumbsy design of the remote control. The tiny buttons are hard to see and operate but the picture performance far outweighs this. So now you know, stop waiting and go get it!
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Summary: Breaks after 1 year-You have been warned
Review: The Panasonic RP-62 DVD Player has proven to be a very good product in my book. As of the date of this review, I've had a silver-colored RP-62 for nearly a year with no problems (small or large) at all. This unit can play a wide variety of disc types -- DVD-Video, DVD-R, Video-CD, and CDs (including store-bought Audio CDs, plus CD-R, CD-RW, and MP3). It will also play DVD-Audio discs, as long as the disc is also encoded with a Dolby Digital soundtrack (which most are). The RP-62 will not play SACD, SVCD, or DVD-RAM discs. Being able to handle MP3 discs is a big plus. And the on-screen menu when an MP3 is in the player is a really nice feature. The MP3 menu doesn't necessarily have to be displayed, however. You can choose to clear the menu from the screen by utilizing the "Menu" or the "Top Menu" remote-control buttons. The MP3 menu allows you to scroll through the disc's contents very quickly, via multiple screens, which are very quick to respond to the remote's input commands. Also: when hitting the "Subtitle" key while an MP3 is playing, the program currently playing will be shown at the bottom of the screen. Hitting the subtitle key again will erase the information from the screen. There's a handy toggle switch on the front of the unit for controlling the "Progressive Scan" option. Picture quality from this machine seems just fine to my eyes. The remote's menu buttons are indeed a bit on the tiny side. But you get used to it quickly, and I wouldn't consider it to be a major negative when considering whether or not to purchase this model. Response time seems more than adequate when hitting the menu keys, with no discernable delay. As of this moment, I can't think of a thing to complain about with regard to the sleek-looking Panasonic RP-62S Progressive-Scan DVD Player. It has performed perfectly. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Another Winning Product From Panasonic
Review: The Panasonic RP-62 DVD Player has proven to be a very good product in my book. As of the date of this review, I've had a silver-colored RP-62 for nearly a year with no problems (small or large) at all. This unit can play a wide variety of disc types -- DVD-Video, DVD-R, Video-CD, and CDs (including store-bought Audio CDs, plus CD-R, CD-RW, and MP3). It will also play DVD-Audio discs, as long as the disc is also encoded with a Dolby Digital soundtrack (which most are). The RP-62 will not play SACD, SVCD, or DVD-RAM discs. Being able to handle MP3 discs is a big plus. And the on-screen menu when an MP3 is in the player is a really nice feature. The MP3 menu doesn't necessarily have to be displayed, however. You can choose to clear the menu from the screen by utilizing the "Menu" or the "Top Menu" remote-control buttons. The MP3 menu allows you to scroll through the disc's contents very quickly, via multiple screens, which are very quick to respond to the remote's input commands. Also: when hitting the "Subtitle" key while an MP3 is playing, the program currently playing will be shown at the bottom of the screen. Hitting the subtitle key again will erase the information from the screen. There's a handy toggle switch on the front of the unit for controlling the "Progressive Scan" option. Picture quality from this machine seems just fine to my eyes. The remote's menu buttons are indeed a bit on the tiny side. But you get used to it quickly, and I wouldn't consider it to be a major negative when considering whether or not to purchase this model. Response time seems more than adequate when hitting the menu keys, with no discernable delay. As of this moment, I can't think of a thing to complain about with regard to the sleek-looking Panasonic RP-62S Progressive-Scan DVD Player. It has performed perfectly. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Good and Bad
Review: The unit played DVDs just fine, the problem came with the mp3s. I have many different CDs filed with mp3s, all of which play perfectly in my Dell computer. When I would put the disks in the RP62, it would divide up most of the tracks into 3 or 4 parts, but not all the tracks were effected, some it would leave alone as one complete track. A 4 minute song might be left as 1 track or it could be divided up into 4 parts and it would transition from part 1 to part 2 like most CDs move from one song to the next. All tracks are at least 128kpbs and 44khz (this unit will not play any mp3 with a sample rate under 32khz). I had the unit for 10 days waiting for a Panasonic tech to call me back. I had called their customer service more than once and nobody there had heard of this problem before so they wanted someone with more knowledge to call me. Panasonic never called me back and they didn't answer my emails to their tech support either. I called a salesman at the local Circuit City to get a more educated opinion than mine and all he was sure of was that something had to be wrong with the unit. I returned the unit. I'm not upset that it didn't work as advertised, I'm more surprised at the indifference from the people at Panasonic. For one last test I encoded into mp3 an old radio broadcast. It was three parts, each track about 30 minutes long (@128kpbs/44khz). The RP62 displayed track 1 as one track, track 2 was divided up into 23 parts, and track 3 was one track. Each track was ripped and burned exactly the same way ... go figure.
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Summary: It worked for about 10 months.
Review: Then died with the dreaded "H07" error, which, apparently means that the drive motor died. Apparently, this is a common problem with all Panasonic DVD players (Google "panasonic h07" to find out how many people have this problem). If you are frustrated with the laack of customer service (their automated phone system just keeps hanging up on me), register your complaint at www.bigclassaction.com. Really, it's the only way to find out how pervasive this problem is and if those who have been swindled into buying a Panasonic DVD player are willing to make them take responsibility for producing poor products.
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Summary: Most durable make on the market
Review: There is a guy below who says:
"Then died with the dreaded "H07" error, which, apparently means that the drive motor died. Apparently, this is a common problem with all Panasonic DVD players (Google "panasonic h07" to find out how many people have this problem). " aparrently this guy bought 33 differnt panasonic models or he is just a crank. forget googling "panasonic ho7" google his quote, the term: "google panasonic ho7" you will see that of the 630 notes of this rare error, 586 are this guy's! I have had my panasonic for two years, had it in a very hot av rack, had kids abuse it and not one problem. my sony's and toshib's have died musch sooner!
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Summary: The Panasonic DVD-RP62 is an astonishing bargain!
Review: This DVD player does it all. I wanted a progressive-scan DVD player that could also handle MP3 files, and the Panasonic DVD-RP62K handles them effortlessly--with a very handy on-screen selection menu that's icing on the cake. The rest of this machine's performance is spot on perfect. The variable zoom is a nice feature--I use it far more often than I would have guessed. I also love the Quick Replay button--just touch Quick Replay and the scene backs up 10 seconds for an instant review of something you want to see again. Very cool! My only quibble is the remote control. It's small, hard-edged and the buttons make it VERY hard to navigate in the dark. If you have a universal remote control, then this is a non issue. But since the remote is such a critical part of the satisfaction of using a DVD player, be forewarned that the Panasonic DVD-RP62 remote might leave you a little disappointed. Otherwise, this is a superb machine. It's well designed, beautifully engineered and built, and the look and feel (except for the remote) is outstanding. Well done, Panasonic!
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Summary: Yeah baby!
Review: This is a great DVD player. It has everything you need, at a price you can't beat. It's such a good buy. It's easy to set up and easy to use. A great first DVD player for anyone who is thinking of getting a DVD player. I wouldn't use it on my HDTV home theater, but if you just want something simple that looks great, this is the one. It has good sound and picture for the price. Haven't had any problems with it, what can I say I love it. It was cool. Big Truck
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