Panasonic DMP-BDT500

usability, price, design

reliability, size

78% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Picture, sound and build quality ; Excellent feature list ; Intuitive operating system

No DVD-Audio or SACD playback ; Touchpad remote can be frustrating

Excellent build quality ; Heaps of features ; Polished pictures and sound

Touchpad remote occasionally i ; Other web portals offer more ; Expensive

Excellent picture ; strong sound ; smooth motion handling ; great with 3D and upscaling

The remote control’s touch pad can be a bit awkward to use

Panasonic has done it again – this player delivers a truly captivating performance

Sublime video quality; superior audio over HDMI; excellent analogue audio performance; good file support from USB

Infuriating touchpad controller; unnecessary multi-user modes; complicated networking mapping requirement

Fantastic picture in both 2D and 3D ; Commanding sound

It’s far from sleek ; Unwieldy, frustrating remote control

Brilliant in almost every way, the DMP-BDT500 is one of the finest Blu-ray players ever

How things have changed since Blu-ray arrived on the scene. Debut players from the larger electronics companies were pretty full-featured, with substantial build quality. Now it seems that most mass-consumer players are in a race to the bottom when it...

very quiet loads of features very good picture quality

Remote control

it is not ergonomically designed; people with limited dexterity would the remote impossible to use.The picture and sound quality was less than average. The It was not as described in the literature therefore I returned it.

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it is not ergonomically designed; people with limited dexterity would the remote impossible to use.The picture and sound quality was less than average. The It was not as described in the literature therefore I returned it

This is a well built machine with lots of high quality connections including 7.1 audio out and two HDMI ports. It spins discs in almost silence. The remote control, with its touch screen is great.

Following the first routine firmware update (First day of use), the BBC iPlayer ceased to work. After 10 minutes on an 0844 number to Panasonic, their semi trained drone informed me that it was my broadband connection, rather than their update. They...