[DaViD Boulet]

"My next Pj (Mitsu HC5000) will do"

Tell me more. A link to info about this new PJ? I heard someone at working talking about it and that it might give Sony's Pearl a run for the money.

[GoldenRedux]

Does the Panny allow you to turn off any 'standby' mode an leave it turned on?

[Rachael B]

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Originally Posted by GoldenRedux

Does the Panny allow you to turn off any 'standby' mode an leave it turned on?

I you leave it on, it has an automatic shut-down that will kick in. I can't remember for sure at the moment but there might have been two choices of times for the kick off on the setup menu??? I'll have to look at it again to be sure if there is an always on mode. Why do ya need that?

One minor complaint about the Panasonic so far is that, like a great many other Panasonic components I've owned, the remote window isn't very wide. Thus, it was hard to hit the window at the original, high rack location I'd assigned the deck. I moved it lower and sent my really easy to hit DirecTivo to the high perch. It's better now....

I watched M!3, The Great Raid, and Under Siege on the deck in the last few days. It performed very well on all three. I watched MI3 in both formats and it was relatively the same. The weak spots in the discs were EXACTLY THE SAME in both formats, even. BTW, the BD s MPEG2 and the HD-DVD VC1, of course. I have some older BD's waiting for a re-run....T1 & T2 are amongst them.

I'm gonna try the analog out's sometime soon. My Toshiba is gonna lose it's place on my head unit's 5.1 in for awhile.

[actarusfleed]

Quote:

Originally Posted by DaViD Boulet

"My next Pj (Mitsu HC5000) will do"

Tell me more. A link to info about this new PJ? I heard someone at working talking about it and that it might give Sony's Pearl a run for the money.

Here comes some links:
http://global.mitsubishielectric.com...0/index_b.html
http://www.projectorreviews.com/Manu...00BL/index.asp
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...subishi+hc5000

[RAF]

Quote:

Originally Posted by DaViD Boulet

"My next Pj (Mitsu HC5000) will do"

Tell me more. A link to info about this new PJ? I heard someone at working talking about it and that it might give Sony's Pearl a run for the money.

I saw both projectors at CEDIA and, quite frankly, I don't think the Mitsu HC5000 is as good as the Pearl. Yes, it produces a fine picture, but since it's an LCD projector it still has the "screen door" effect (albeit slightly less at 1080p). I greatly prefer LCoS over LCD for a number of reasons - screen door effect and poorer blacks being the major ones. That's my personal preference. Interestingly, at CEDIA Mitsubishi displayed this set with the picture so high up in the air in their booth that it was impossible to get really close to the screen. All other manufacturers had their screen displays at eye level. I got the feeling they really didn't want viewers to look too closely at the image. Screen door anyone?

My next FP will be 1080p - that's for sure, David. But it will be LCoS (SXRD, D-iLA or whatever other flavor) over LCD. Actually, I'm still a DLP fan, but cost limits me to 1080p single chip models for now. The three chip 1080p DLPs are still way up in the stratosphere for me. But there's always CEDIA 2007.



Right now I'm focusing in on the following 1080p FPs: 3 chip LCoS (Pearl or upcoming JVC) or 1 chip DLP (no particular model yet.) The trade off with 1-chip DLP is a possible "rainbow effect" (I'm not affected by this but some are) for slightly better blacks in DLP, at least to me.

You got your wish, David. 1080p is definitely ready for prime (affordable) time.

[GoldenRedux]

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Originally Posted by Rachael B

I you leave it on, it has an automatic shut-down that will kick in. I can't remember for sure at the moment but there might have been two choices of times for the kick off on the setup menu??? I'll have to look at it again to be sure if there is an always on mode. Why do ya need that?

You know we audiophile types Rachael. I want to be able to burn it in and warm it up.

[Dave Moritz]

Stoped in and caught a quick look at the Panasonic Blu-ray today. From what I saw video wise it looked really good. The pictures of the face of the player do not do it justice. The player looked alot better in person but I thought I should have weighed more than it did. But it just may end up in my HT around March 07.

[bigkid]

Hi all,

First time poster. I know it is not necessarily a primary feature of this player but I'm interested in its CD audio upsampling capabilities. We have a lot of CDs and try to get the most out of them in our system. I am presently using a Toshiba SD-900 as a multi-disc player (for DVD's, DVD-A etc) but as a transport only for CD - digital data from CD is output to an external Elektra (local brand) 24bit 192Khz upsampling DAC. Pretty happy with the result, a warmer sound more analogue than digital. If I go blu-ray then the three units will occupy a fair bit of real estate in our entertainment unit. A solution like this player (if it upsamples CD audio, and does it well) which lets me lose the Toshiba and the Elektra would be ideal. My queries therefore of owners are does the panasonic player upsample CD audio and is there a significant difference in quality over your straight CD player?

Appreciate your advice.

Regards,

Allan

[drbonbi]

Allan,

I have been playing a lot of CDs with the player connected via HDMI to its companion Panny receiver SA-XR700 which in turn is connected to a 7.1 speaker setup. They sound fantastic. Much better than using a DVD player as a CD RAW bitstream transport to the XR-700.

Having said all that, the specs for the BD10 under "Audio Performance" do not indicate any upsampling for CD-Audio which is spec'd for DVD (linear audio) and DVD-Audio.

Dana

[Roger Mathus]

Has anyone compared performance of the Panasonic to the Samsung (with firmware upgrade) ????????