Good Picture and Sound

No cd-r play

This is/was my first DVD player. At the time I was updating my entire system so I bought new everything, VCR, DVD, Surround Sound Box system, and TV. I was impressed with this player as a whole. To this date it has not once played a DVD and I own about 50 or so. Yes I even own new ones such as Mummy Returns and newest Disney releases. I was a little bummed that I could not play CD-r's but I got over that rather quickly. I read most of the reviews up and am puzzled. So many have had problems yet I have had none. Is that because I actually own this player and the others do not. I don't know. By now there is little chance you could purchase this player new so if someone is in the market for a used player you could probably pick one up at ebay. I do recommend this player. It has been very good to me.

allows you to load both the movie and the special features dvd without getting up. the Godfather anyone!!!

a player past its time.
no audio output control
no zoom feature
only plays cds and dvds.

to make a long story short,some friends bought me a dvd player for a wedding gift( RAITE ) and i loved it. the sound was smooth and with no bells and whistles. they told me that it was a multi-region player, so i am told...
after 2 returns to compUSA, the picture on the player still just wasn't working right. they ageed to give me store credit, so i took my $250.00 and wandered thru the dvd section.all i found was this Panasonic player.

for the last year and a half, i have only been able to play cds and dvd. to top things off, the audio output seems to distort when i play a store bought cd. my old Panasonic laserdisc player at least has an output control.

please do yourselves a favor, these days you can buy a better, faster, smarter and cheaper dvd player. i wouldn't GIVE this thing to any of my friends. you just know that the designers were laughing out loud when they designed this player. i wouldn't be surprised if they took bets to see how many were sold to all of the "humanoids".

DON'T BE AFRAID TO GET UP OFF YOUR OKOLE AND CHANGE THE DISC, YOU LAZY...

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first time user

5 Discs, quality D/A converter for clean audio

Layer transition is a bit slow.

I've had this DVD player for two years now. I've been very happy with it and have never experienced any technical problems. In regard to one specific issue I've seen raised in other reviews, I own many new DVD's and have never had one that wouldn't play. I also rent most new releases and they have all played flawlessly as well. I watch DVD's often, but I probably listen to music CD's a good deal more often. I own a Nakamichi CD player and a Sony CD player as well. My integrated amplifier has a Direct Digital connection with high quality DACs. With my Nakamichi, the difference between digital and analog connections is striking, with the digital giving substantially better sound. I believe the difference is in the Digital/Analog Converters, the one in my amp being much better than the one in the Nakamichi. With this DVD player, the difference is negligible, which suprised me as this is a cheap unit.

To sum up, my experience has been flawless operation, decent video and excellent audio. I'm very happy.

NONE

ONLY PLAYS ONE OUT OF 10 MOVIES?

HAD THIS PLAYER A LITTLE OVER 2 YEARS NOW, FOR THE LAST YEAR, IT WILL NEVER PLAY ANY NEWER MOVIES OR RELEASES, AND ONLY PLAYS CERTAIN OLDER MOVIES, DATED 1998, 1999 AND SOME 2000 TITTLES?

WAS TRULY THINKING THERE WOULD BE ALLOT OF OTHER USERS WITH THIS SAME PROBLEM,I DONT EVEN USE IT ANYMORE. ALWAYS GET THE "NO PLAY" DISPLAY ON THE PLAYER AND TV AS WELL.
SO ITS NOT READING CERTAIN MOVIES, AND THESE ARE ALL BRAND NEW STORE BROUGHT TITLES.

IT WILL HOWEVER FAITHFULLY PLAY THE SAME OLD MOVIES,AND THE SAME MOVIES THAT WONT PLAY, ALMOST NEVER DO. ONCE IN A BLUE MOON THEY WILL.

AND THE MOVIES THAT WILL PLAY, ALWAYS WILL PLAY WITH NO PROBLEM, AND MOST ARE SOME OF THE FIRST DVD MOVIE RELEASES.

I DONT KNOW IF ALL THESE NEW DVD MOVIES HAVE SOME KIND OF NEW CODING, OR IF ITS JUST MY PLAYER THATS MESSED UP.

I DONT EXPECT IT TO PLAY PC BURNT DISCS, BUT I COMPLETLY STOPPED BUYING MOVIES, SINCE IM ALWAYS GETTING THE "NO PLAY" MESSAGE.

AND IT DOES ALWAYS PLAY ALL AUDIO CDS, AS LONG AS THEY ARE THE ORIGINAL STORE BROUGHT. AND THE SOUND IS AWESOME, COMPARED TO MY 5 DISC CD PLAYER.

SO I QUESS I NOW OWN A GREAT CD PLAYER, THAT PLAYS SOME OLDER DVDS?

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PANASONIC TOSHIBA

DTS, 5 disc changer

Won't play CD-R

After reading all of these reviews, I can see that a few of you spend more time looking at the lights on the front of your DVD player than you do watching DVDs! I've used this player for over a year, and it works great. The DTS audio is fantastic! Best $300 I ever spent. Won't replace it until I need a progressive scan system.

Carousel

Doesn't play newer DVDs

Gotta agree with the review that says the player doesn't play "newer" DVDs. This is really annoying.

Anybody have any luck calling Panasonic tech support.

I got nowhere with them.

I'm frustrated and in the market for anothet DVD player...

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First one owned

This DVD player replaced my old 5 Disk CD only player from Technics. This player has nice features that I wasn't aware of, such as display menues to do setup changes on the fly while watching DVD. I have not experience any problems with any of mine DVD collection. Actually some of the movies that were experiencing problems on my PC DVD I was running to my system worked without a clitch. My system consist of Yamaha 995, Polk Audio 7300, and am amazed at the DTS sound it puts out (Dances with the Wolves) DTS DVD. Overall this system has preformed to my needs without a hitch.

Usually I don’t rant like this (which will start towards the end of this review). But I think Panasonic may have evidence someone or some group in the company uses drugs, or is a dope or something like that.
I bought the new Panasonic DVD-C220 (that’s on the player, it says DVD-C220D on the box and operating instructions), set it up and started playing CDs and DVDs. This was to replace my old Sony 5-disc CD changer and add a DVD player to my mid-range home-theatre system. This unit is also a 5-disc changer but plays CDs, DVDs and Video-CDs. The features are basic, the main pluses are the changer, optical and coaxial digital and component video outputs, a center channel audio “enhancer,” a Virtual Surround Sound imitator (that works best if you keep your ears in a certain spot plus or minus one-quarter inch), 10-bit video D/A converter and audio 96 kHz/24-bit D/A converter and something called “Chapter Preview” that plays the first 3 seconds of each previously viewed DVD chapter and proceeds with normal play once it reaches the position where you left off.

Generally the audio and picture quality are fine. But if you are an audiophile and/or videophile, check this out for yourself, because I am not. Others will be happy enough with both the picture and sound. I do have four complaints, including one as big as a bomb:

First, the display on the player is bad. The mode and time-played characters are bright and big enough, but the disc number does not display during play. There is a graphic 1.2.3.4.5 list with one of those ugly half-ovals over the upper-left corner of the number to indicate the disc that is in the shoot. But it is so small that you will need binoculars sitting besides you if you are more than a few feet away or have awfully good eyes. Also, you can not easily adjust the time (time played/remaining/total). You have to use the on-screen menus (though you can set up a macro on a learning universal remote like the Pronto).

Second, the remote has a nonsensical layout and it is made up of a lot of small buttons on a small remote. And DVD remotes get a lot of use!! The cursor buttons are particularly hard to use. It does an adequate job of controlling the system, however.

Third, the 5-disc drawer can only be closed using the open/close button, not by pressing on the drawer like normal CD/DVD drawers. A big annoyance, but one that one can get used to (hopefully-I have not yet).

Now the big one, number four: the “Button Capper”!! You see, the DVD-C220 has these five light-up buttons just to the right of the display; one for each place in the changer. When there is a CD is the slot, it shines green (and I mean shines, it is more like a beacon). If it is a DVD it is orange and off if empty. These five lights may be the most predominant feature of your system when a few of them are lit (they are in my "conservative" system). You may hate them or you may find them cool. That is not the problem. It’s that the dang things do not work!! The only way the player can tell what each slot holds is by scanning each disc. So in order for the lights to be accurate when you change or add one disc, every disc will have to be re-scanned, which is not something it does automatically, you have to do this by hand every blessed time. A process that takes more than a few seconds and is very very annoying and you probably will just let the buttons be wrong!!

I contacted the Panasonic support department (by phone because I have learned they are awful about monitoring their email (an average 6 days for a response when I got them and over half of my emails never got a response). I thought I might be doing things wrong. Maybe there was some way to change or exchange discs that would make the buttons work. I was open for suggestions and hoped I would get some. But what I was told was that since the button that had the disc playing was correct and only the other four (beacons) were wrong, “the player was doing what it was designed to do.”

Why would a company release a product with this big a blooper? Some kid engineer probably thought the buttons would look “neat-o” (or whatever they say) but was too stupid or drugged up or something to realize that these big-bright beacon-buttons (say that five times fast) would be meaningless. And the others were in the same shape or not paying attention. How could a product like this make it to the market? Why has Panasonic, like so many companies, decided to make up for bad products with packaging and marketing? And Panasonic used to have such great products!!

Panasonic, you and your DVD-C220 are both big fat nothing!! If I could select a zero rating I would, but 1 to 5 is the scale.

This is in response to the previous poster...Did you have to post your review twice??? The problems you pointed out are relatively minor ones IMO. I don't concern myself with the "lighting" problem because I'm always shuffling discs in and out of the thing anyway. Otherwise, the performance/features are on par with any other DVD player out there for under $500. I haven't experienced any problems with the picture or sound with any discs yet. For the price, plus the convenience of having a 5 disc carousel, you can't do any better than the DVD-C220.

I bought this unit to replace a Sony DVP-C600. I think that is a fine piece of equipment but does not do DVD's in DTS. Overall I think the DVD-C220 is O. K. with two small complaints. First, the time display for DVD's shows only elapsed time for the entire disc and does not display chapter info or total time remaining. Second, the unit will not output both s-video and component video simultaneously. There is a switch on the rear of the unit to change from one to the other. I like to connect the s-video to my reciever (Yamaha RX-V2095) and the component directly to my Sony Wega KV-36FV1. This allows me to switch to component use for premium movie viewing without the "on screen" displays showing.