Blue Ray advice.

[Floyddroid]

Been a bit dissapointed with my Panasonic BRP. Thinking about a replacement. I don't want to pay daft money for one' Mainly watch music DVD's. Any suggestions?:eyebrows:

[daytona600]

oppo , marantz & denon all make nice machines

[UV101]

In what way are you disappointed??

[Floyddroid]

Mainly picture Quality. the analogue out to my system is pretty good. Unless of course it is my Samsung telly.

[Stratmangler]

There's nowt wrong with the picture from my Panasonic BDP into my Panasonic HDTV.
In fact the Panasonic BDP gives a better picture than the Samsung BDP it replaced.

[WAD62]

Mainly picture Quality. the analogue out to my system is pretty good. Unless of course it is my Samsung telly.

Why are you using an analogue connection? :scratch:

P.S. shouldn't this be in the AV section...sorry for being picky ;)

[Filterlab]

Why are you using an analogue connection? :scratch:

P.S. shouldn't this be in the AV section...sorry for being picky ;)

I think he means analogue audio out.

By the way everyone, it's "Blu-ray", not Blue Ray, Bluray, Blu Ray, Blueray or any other incarnation.

Blu-ray. :)

[Stratmangler]

I think he means analogue audio out.

By the way everyone, it's "Blu-ray", not Blue Ray, Bluray, Blu Ray, Blueray or any other incarnation.

Blu-ray. :)

Who'd have thought that Blu Ray was spelt like that :)

[Canetoad]

:lol:

Stop teasing Strat! :)

[Stratmangler]

:lol:

Stop teasing Strat! :)

:)

[roob]

I have a 3yr old bottom of the range Sony player picture quality via BR is superb, have you got your machine and tv set up correctly?.
If you Samsung tv is one of their budget lcd jobs then it could be that, you have to pay good money to get a decent lcd panel compared to plasma.

[Reid Malenfant]

Well you haven't mentioned the BD player model... Or the TV for that matter :scratch:

I still have a pair of Panasonic DMP-BD80 players (which I'll be keeping as they are multiregion on BDs :D) & an Oppo BD95EU.

The Panasonic replaced a Sony S550, it does a much better job with both BDs & DVDs than the Sony picture wise & the Sony was no slouch.

The Oppo is in another league, but it is a £1K player :)


The thing is you are upscaling DVDs & the picture quality will be entirely dependant on the quality of the scaler.

While the Oppo did a vastly better job with DVDs than either the Sony or Panasonic, it can't touch a decent stand alone scaler picture quality wise.

[icehockeyboy]

I have a Sony 550' into a Sammy led job that ive had 3 years since new, stunning pic!

[roob]

The OP should search the net for the best settings for his particular TV model, most manufacturers out of the box picture settings are pretty dire, Samsung being one of them.