Mario Fedick from Coldwater has sent in review of Panasonic DMP-BD30K Blu-ray player.

August 30, 2008

The design of this player is essentially identical to its predecessor. The left side is dominated by the tray hidden by a flip-down panel that automatically raises and lowers. The right side features the play back function buttons. Also under the flip down panel is an SDHC card slot capable of reading high-definition photos or video shot in AVCHD format. There's also a bright light located toward the top of the front panel which is an indicator for the SDHC card slot.

The included remote is pretty good. Most of the standard playback controls glow in dark. There's a directional pad toward the bottom of the remote and handy buttons located around the perimeter. A little more button differentiation would have been nice.

This player is currently a Profile 1.1 Blu-ray player which means it can access picture-in-picture commentary tracks available on some Blu-ray Discs. It is not profile 2.0 also known as BD live. The manufacturer has stated that the player can be upgraded in future to be profile 2.0 compliant. Soundtrack support is pretty good although not flawless. This player can internally decode Dolby TrueHD but currently can't decode DTS-HD Master Audio. That's unfortunate because that means only home theater fans with relatively new receivers can take advantage of DTS-HD Master Audio.

i wanted to write a review because the main thing i love... is actually DVD playback. all the blu ray i've tried has been amazing... but where i love this thing is in regular dvd playback. i don't know all the technical terms of how it converts upwards to HD.

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