Advantages: Picture and sound quality, plays most file formats, huge array of options Disadvantages: No HDMI or upscaling
...If that player is the Panasonic S-33, then the answer is yes. Barring the HD formats above and SACD, it will play just about any format you throw at it. Its DivX playback is probably one of the reason you are reading this. Of course, you can get most of these playback features with a cheapo, low-quality player, but read on...
The DVD picture quality on a standard TV is, quite simply, stunning for a DVD player at any price. However, it lacks the ... ...S-53, so this player is perhaps not the first choice if you have an HD TV. But on my CRT telly, the picture is above broadcast quality in my view, with no visible compression artifacts or edge effects at all, even on fade-ins/outs where you would normally see a certain degree of posterisation/dithering with other players.
The audio output is clean, sharp, and pretty noiseless; orchestral music is particularly well served here (Alien and Bladerunner ...
PGregory 20.06.2007
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Panasonic DVD-S33
...Cons, panasonic has been a reliabilty problem to me in the past and this time was no different. right away i started noticing the sound volume and the over quality were very poor i could sometimes barely make out words whats the point of a movie with no sounds? ...
swimmer101p 01.04.2009
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: somewhat helpful Review of Panasonic DVD-S33