Panasonic DMP-BD85K Blu-Ray Disc Player Best Buy

Panasonic DMP-BD85K WiFi Enabled Blu-Ray Disc Player

The DMP-BD85 employs the PHL Reference Chroma Processor Plus. Developed in collaboration with Panasonic Hollywood Laboratory, this high image processing technologies reproduces clear, vivid colors which are faithful to the original film.

Panasonic's Blu-ray Disc players employ high precision four:four:four signal technologies, which working in tandem with PHL Reference Chroma Processor Plus processes each and every pixel of the Blu-ray Disc video signal inside the horizontal direction to compliment vertical direction processing. P4HD (Pixel Precision Progressive Processing for HD) is an additional technologies that contributes to the superior picture high quality of the Blu-ray players. P4HD processes a lot more than 15 billion pixels per second and applies the optimal processing to each pixel.

Panasonic's Blu-ray Disc players further utilize 16-level motion detection to categorize the image motion of every pixel into 1 of 16 levels; diagonal processing to detect diagonals and right the pixels accordingly; 1080p up-conversion to up-convert content recorded inside the 480i/p or 720p format to 1080p.

The excellent: Superb Blu-ray image good quality; Netflix, Amazon Video on Demand, and YouTube streaming; Wi-Fi capable with included USB dongle; 7.1 analog outputs; plays music, videos, and photos off a connected USB drive or SD card.

The poor: Competing models do not will need a dongle for Wi-Fi; sluggish, regardless of superfast "quick start" mode; selection of streaming sources is on the tiny side; user interface is outdated and Wi-Fi tricky to setup; not DLNA compliant; no 3D Blu-ray support; no onboard storage.

The bottom line: Panasonic's DMP-BD85K has good image top quality and its 7.1 analog outputs are a nice plus, but it is slow and much less featured than competing models.