While using DMP-BDT100, Panasonic has prolonged its 3D Blu-ray proposition lower to your mass marketplace.

The manufacturer's first 3D participant, the DMP-BDT300, was a very-polished performer; this model not a lot cuts corners as neatly bevels them.

The deck has been intended to do the job solely in an HDMI v1.four surroundings, there being no secondary HDMI output or analogue audio bank to supply lossless audio into legacy products.

It is been specific at those that simply desire to join directly with a 3DTV. If customers hanker for lossless DTS-HD MA or Dolby TrueHD they'll should spring for a new AV receiver with HDMI v1.four, or require edge of an all-in-a single technique with Audio Return Channel.

The unit by itself is intelligent enough. A flap lowers to reveal an SD credit card slot and USB port. The latter might be used with Panasonic's DY-WL10 Wi-Fi adaptor (marketed as an optional further), in the event you really don't need to use a wired network connection.

With its DLNA branding you might anticipate the BDT100 to smugly perform all media across your network, but you'd be unsuitable. If you've one of this season's Panasonic Blu-ray recorders on your network, this deck can accessibility and perform articles from that device.

Nevertheless, it can not perform media throughout a network (despite the fact that it lets you browse to UPnP gadgets). Document playback only extends as much as an attached USB unit. My assortment of AVIs and MKVs could only be performed from a USB flash drive.

Even though supporting BD-Are living, the player has no internal memory onboard (so that you'll need to add your personal). It can also accessibility the Blu-ray version of Viera Cast (which will not have identical content for the brand name's TVs). Pickings are even now relatively slim, and incorporate YouTube, Bloomberg, Each day Movement, Weather and Picasa.

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It might not supply the identical video recording effectiveness as the BDT300 (measurable characteristics are quite distinct), but I would nevertheless regard video clip excellent as excellent.

A mix of extreme sharpness and stability with nuanced colour ensures the two 2D and 3D Blu-rays look pristine. Kudos goes to the PHL Reference Chroma Processor Plus and Adaptive High Precision 4:4:4 signal processing.

The participant is additionally refined as being a CD spinner, and even though it may not be audiophile grade (dynamic variety peaks at 91.7dB), imaging is spacious and satisfying.

Tweakers need to examine the 96kHz Re-Master modes (accessed from your handset) that wonderful-tune frequency reaction. Panasonic has nonetheless confirmed a price tag position for the BDT100, but we count on it to become around £250.

Even when it is really reduce than that (and despite its best-notch AV efficiency), I be expecting it could battle towards its much better specified level of competition: the DLNA function is constrained and on the net subject material through VieraCast lags behind the portals of rival brands Sony and Samsung.