I purchase the Panasonic DMP-BD60 on recommendations from various internet sites. It lives up to its excellent reputation... in most cases! I am very impressed with the picture it sends to my Samsung HDTV. It communicates with my TV, so all I have to do is hit "eject" on my blu-ray remote and it turns on the TV and switches it to the HDMI channel to play! My Samsung remote will even control the Panasonic (play, rewind, ff, stop), but not "pause." The picture is awesome, and the "load time" issues are non-existent. Really, if you don't have the time for this to load you need to loosen up your schedule! I did have a scare with my first blu-ray (what are the odds of my first blu-ray not playing but every other one being fine) not playing. It was a Netflix blu-ray with hardly a scratch. After calling 6ave (who sold the unit through Amazon) they were very nice and suggested trying another blu-ray in it, or to send back this unit. It's been perfect since then. The one minus of ordering online is that I would have had to wait a week for another one, where buying at a store you could just run down and swap it out (which wouldn't have solved my problem anyway...) But is that worth paying sales tax and a higher price for the unit? To some it is... not me! Small nitpicks: the SD card slot where you can view your pictures from a digital camera is a reason I bought this player, and it works... but you can't skip over pictures you don't care to see, and it will only play a certain number of them. Those of you with thousands of pics on your 8G SD cards will be disappointed that it will only play a couple hundred. The online connections are to Picasa, YouTube, and weather for your area. These are OK, but wish it could link up to Netflix. I have not explored the Amazon HD downloadable videos yet. The upconverting DVD aspect to this player does work, but it seems some do better than others. The newer DVD movies seem to do better than my older ones. I was not as impressed with my regular DVD set of BBC Planet Earth... get the blu-ray of that! But my LOTR trilogy was satisfying to watch. My old DVD player had a button for subtitles so you could instantly turn it on and off- this player doesn't. You have to turn it on in the main movie before you watch, which is a bit of a bummer. But with everything this player does right, that is a small price to pay. It is also very sleek looking and I can't even see it in my cabinet unless it is on!Get more detail about Panasonic DMP-BD60 Blu-ray Disc Player, Black.
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