A number of manufacturers list their DVD players as playing "DVD Video/Audio" even though they don't play DVD-A. It refers to the standard stereo track on the DVD and is output through a standard L-R stereo jacks.
With the advent of DVD-A, it makes it confusing and I don't think anyone needs...
They probably did, but I'm pretty sure that it won't work with DVD-A. I have an RP-82, and from every indication in its manual, you would believe that the speaker size and level settings would work with DVD-A. The new S55 manual is the same. It has speaker level and size adjustments, with a...
These players, like the previous ones, don't have any bass management for DVD-A. You get a full range signal to all speakers. This is not unusual, since there's currently no player under $500 that has DVD-A bass management. Previous models with built-in DD and DTS decoders had a LF crossover at...
Newegg may have them, but to my knowledge, only the F65 and S35 are available thus far. I checked with one of the main Panasonic distributors on Friday, and they said that the S55 and F85 should be out very soon, maybe this week. FYI, MSRP on the S55 and F65 is $129.95 and the F85 is $149.95...
All the new Pannys (S35, S55, F65 and F85) use the same all-in-one chip solution that handles deinterlacing, MPEG decoding and even DVD-A. If you do a search for the S35, you'll find a few threads about its video performance. While it's not bad for the price, it's not up to the quality of the...