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Feature Comparison Chart for Panasonic Blu-Ray Players
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Panasonic Blu-Ray Players Feature Explanations:
- 1 - BD-ROM, BD-RE, BD-RE DL, BD-R/BD-R DL Playback
- BD-ROM Playback: FULL HD 3D BD*, BD-Video**
BD-RE / BD-RE DL (Ver.3): MPG, JPEG
BD-R/BD-R DL (Ver.2): MKV
- 2 - DVD-ROM / DVD-R / DVD-RW / DVD-R DL / DVD+R / DVD+R DL / DVD+RW Playback
- DVD-ROM: DVD Video
DVD-R / DVD-R DL (Discs recorded and finalized on recording devices): DVD Video, DVD Video Recording, AVCHD, JPEG, MP3, MPO, MKV
DVD-RW (Discs recorded and finalized on recording devices): DVD Video, DVD Video Recording, AVCHD
DVD+R / DVD+R DL / DVD+RW (Discs recorded and finalized on recording devices): DVD Video, AVCHD
- 3 - CD / CD-R / CD-RW Playback
- Playability may vary depending on the contents, discs and quality of the recording.
CD-DA, JPEG, MPO, MP3, MKV
- 4 - SD Memory Card Playback and USB Terminal
- The DMP-BDT110, DMP-BDT210 and DMP-BDT310 Panasonic Blu-Ray players are each equipped with an SD Memory Card slot and USB terminal, which makes it easy to view photos from your digital camera. Just slip the SD card into the slot or use the cable to connect the camera to the USB terminal, and you're ready to enjoy a spectacular big-screen slideshow with family and friends.
SD / SDHC / SDXC Memory Card: AVCHD, MPEG2, JPEG, MPO
USB: JPEG, MPO, MP3, MKV playback
- 5 - Skype™ Video Calls
- Turn any HDTV into a Skype™ enabled TV, plus record Skype video mail with your Blu-ray disc™ player when you are away. While watching a TV program or movie, a ringtone from the player tells you that you have a call.* The ringtone also rings during standby mode. You can instantly access the Skype menu screen by simply pressing the Skype button on the remote control. This is very handy because it lets you easily access the menu screen even while you're watching a TV program or movie.
- 6 - Video Voice Mail Recording With Auto Answering Video Message
- Callers can also record messages for you onto the SD Memory Card, so you can confirm the messages when you return home. Record an original message onto an SD Memory Card* and set it as your answering voice message. The message will respond automatically when you receive a phone call while you're away.
- 7 - Adaptive Chroma Processing
- The high-resolution processing of HDMI chroma signals produces a high-resolution picture with rich picture quality. This image processing technology reproduces clear, vivid colors that are faithful to the original.
- 8 - New P4HD (Pixel Precision Progressive Processing for HD) Full HD Upsampling
- Pictures of normal image quality are corrected to sharp and detailed images when output as 1080i/1080p from HDMI AV OUT. P4HD (Pixel Precision Progressive Processing for HD) is another technology that contributes to the superior picture quality of the Blu-ray players. P4HD processes more than 15 billion pixels per second and applies the optimal processing to every pixel. Panasonic's Blu-ray players further utilize 16-level motion detection to categorize the image motion of each pixel into one of 16 levels; diagonal processing to detect diagonals and correct the pixels accordingly; 1080p up-conversion to up-convert content recorded in the 480i/p or 720p format to 1080p. The Blu-ray players also provide 1080/24p output, thereby reproducing cinema images from a Blu-ray Disc and DVD in their original 24p form with no need for conversion. This allows the user to enjoy cinema images in the same format used in cinema with a 1080/24p compatible TV.
- 9 - 3D-NR / Integrated NR Digital Noise Reduction)
- During Playback, advanced 3D-DNR circuitry effectively and selectively removes only noise components from the signal. The result is stunningly clear image reproduction. 3D Noise Reduction reduces the rough noise in the background to give a greater feeling of depth. Integrated Noise Reduction smoothes block noise and reduces the smudging that appears around contrasting sections of the picture.
- 10 - VIERA CAST
- VIERA CAST technology, introduced in Panasonic's PZ850 2008 VIERA Plasma, is available in Panasonic's Blu-ray players. The internet enabled technology lets the user access the Internet without the need of either an external box or a PC and enjoy the entertainment value provided by such targeted sites as Amazon VOD, with an extensive library of streamed titles, YouTube™, Google's Picasa™ Web Album, Bloomberg and a weather channel. VIERA CAST was widely acknowledged last year for its distinctive Internet application, allowing the user to view targeted sites on a large HDTV, rather than a small computer screen. VIERA CAST has a built-in Ethernet interface -- no external box or PC is required. VIERA CAST is accessed via a single button on the Blu-ray Disc player remote control and there is no fee to use the VIERA CAST functionality.
- 11 - 1080/24p Playback
- These Blu-ray players provide 1080/24p output, thereby reproducing cinema images from a Blu-ray Disc and DVD in their original 24p form with no need for conversion. This allows the user to enjoy cinema images in the same format used in cinema with a 1080/24p compatible TV.
- 12 - Deep Color and x.v.Color™
- x.v.Color™ function is effective only when reproducing AVCHD data recorded with x.v.Color technology. The function cannot be used with BD-ROM or DVD-ROM discs. HDMI connection is required.
- 13 - 192kHz/24-bit Audio Digital/Analog Converter
- High-resolution audio's extreme fidelity comes from its much greater sampling rates and bit depths. In fact, at its 192kHz/24-bit maximum, DVD-Audio can reproduce high frequencies up to 96kHz, nearly five times the audio spectrum, while achieving dynamic range of 144dB. These high-frequency components of the audio signal beyond 20kHz play key roles in communicating delicate musical nuances, hall ambience, and soundstage imaging.
- 14 - High Clarity Sound
- When connected to TV via the HDMI terminal for outputting image, it produces clearer sound.
- 15 - Dolby® Digital Plus, Dolby® TrueHD amd DTS™-HD Decode and Bitstream Output
- Panasonic Blu-ray Disc players all feature a high definition audio decoder (Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD Master Audio Essential) to take advantage of the exceptionally high quality 7.1 channel surround sound now integrated in Blu-ray Discs.
- 16 - 96kHz Surround Re-Master For All Formats
- Complimenting the HD audio codecs these Blu-ray players feature 96kHz surround re-master, a function that enhances the sound quality of CDs and other sources, and even improves the quality of the multichannel audio data on Blu-ray Discs and DVDs.
- 17 - Digital Tube Sound Simulator
- The DMP-BDT210 and DMP-BDT310 utilize a Digital Tube Sound Simulator to produce the warm, realistic sounds associated with a tube amplifier.
- 18 - Dialog Enhancer
- Most of the movie dialogue recorded in surround sound formats (either Dolby Digital®, DTS® or Dolby Pro Logic®) is heard through the center channel speaker. At times, dialogue can be overwhelmed by particularly loud sounds emanating from the other speakers in your surround sound system. The dialogue enhancer increases the center channel volume (relative to other channels), making movie dialogue easier to hear and understand.
- 19 - Dynamic Range Compression
- You can listen at low volumes but still hear dialog clearly (Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus and Dolby TrueHD only).
- 20 - Viera Link™ HDAVI Control
- Connect your Panasonic Blu-Ray player to your Viera flat-panel HDTV via an HDMI cable, and the user can operate the player using the TV remote control and following on-screen prompts.
- 21 - Audio/JPEG Navigation Menu
- Enables you to quickly search for JPEG and MP3 files recorded onto CD-R and CD-RW discs via an on-screen menu with online confirmation of file folders. This function also works with CD-R discs that feature multi-session recordings.
- 22 - HDMI Output
- HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is an interface standard for digital transmission of video and audio signals. With HDMI, the signals are not compressed. Transmission is direct and "pure" -- free of the degradation and noise that occur with analog signal transmission. This new interface supports image resolution all the way up to 1080p. HDMI is particularly well suited for images that will be viewed on plasma display panels, LCDs and other equipment that uses all-digital image processing. In terms of sound, HDMI is ideal for DVD-Audio and other high-quality digital formats. It accurately transmits even the most delicate signal components contained in high-quality audio signals. The result is superb sound, whether the source is two-channel or multi-channel. HDMI is simple to use, too, requiring connection of a single cable. With all these advantages, HDMI is the ideal interface for today's age of steadily advancing digital A/V equipment and media.
3D content utilizes the new HDMI 1.4 standard. The twin HDMI outputs give better sound quality and allow users to customize theater systems with any legacy audio equipment incompatible with HDMI 1.4. The DMP-BDT310 3D blu-ray player supports HDMI 1.4 and the existing HDMI 1.3 standard. With the DMP-BDT310, you can send the high-bandwidth 3D video directly to an HDMI 1.4 compliant 3DTV display and the audio directly to an AV receiver, even if the receiver is not HDMI 1.4 compliant.
- 23 - Wireless LAN System
- To further enhance the networking experience, the BDT310 and BDT210 include a built-in Wireless LAN adaptor, while the BDT110 features Wireless LAN capability (a wireless LAN adaptor, model DY-WL10, is sold separately). Firmware can be updated, you can enjoy BD-Live, you can enjoy VIERA CAST and you can access other devices (Home Network).
- 24 - Blu-ray Full HD 3D Playback
- When coupled with a Full HD 3D Plasma television and 3D shutter glasses, the DMP-BDT310 provides the the ultimate home 3D experience. The player outputs stunning, rock-solid, and immersive Full HD 3D imagery to compatible displays. The DMP-BDT310 utilizes groundbreaking technologies incorporated in Panasonic's proprietary UniPhier LSI chip, enabling the player to flawlessly process the large quantity of visual information necessary to create a Full HD 3D image in 1920 x 1080 resolution. Adaptive Chroma Upsampling insures that colors will be faithfully reproduced; and all native digital DVD formats are upscaled to 1080p resolution quality.
When Panasonic engineers set out to develop a home-use 3D theater system, the aim was set to bring exactly the same richness and realism that you see in a 3D cinema, right into the living room. The result was FULL HD 3D. The FULL HD 3D's concept was inspired by Hollywood 3D movie theater systems. Large capacity of Blu-ray Disc™ and excellent moving image performance of the plasma display finally enabled FULL HD 3D into the real system, in which the highest image quality of a pair of full HD images for each eye will be kept in the most pristine form throughout the system.
The technology in which the left-eye and right-eye 3D images are sent to the viewer is the key to 3D image quality. For this, FULL HD 3D uses something called the Frame Sequential technology. First, the plasma display panel, which has a number of inherent advantages for moving picture resolution, was further advanced to allow images for each of the left and right eyes to be alternately reproduced at the rate of 60 frames per second (fps), making a total of 120 fps for both eyes. Viewers watch the images through high-precision 3D Eyewear*, which open and close the left and right shutters in synchronization with the alternating images. As a result, a separate 1920 x 1080 full-HD image is sent to each eye. This addresses the image quality problems and blurring that were common to previous 3D systems, and creates sharp, crisp 3D images.
- 25 - 3D Effect Controller
- The 3D Effect Controller lets you moderate the leaping effects of 3D images. It also lets you adjust the amount of depth, so you can view expansive images and enjoy movies with exactly the kind of 3D effects you want.
- 26 - 2D-3D Conversion
- The 2D-3D Conversion makes it possible to convert images from DVDs and Blu-ray Discs™ into 3D with natural depth perception. So you can watch your prized DVD movie collection in 3D with real-life depth, for even greater viewing enjoyment.
- 27 - Touch-Free Sensor
- A motion sensor is now provided on the top panel of the Blu-ray Disc™ player. The disc tray can be opened or closed by simply passing your hand over the sensor. This is very useful when your hands are full or when you're in a dark room and can't see the buttons clearly.
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