Panasonic's players have been among the worst, although they did make some major progress with their last generation of players. Well, let's take a look: When the BD35 is completely turned off, it takes 22 seconds for the player to power on and reach the Blu-ray Disc splash screen. A disc with a heavy amount of BD-Java content, the BD35 took 59 seconds to load the disc and reach the trailers and an additional 80 seconds to skip through the trailers and reach the disc menu.
In comparison, the S took approximately 10 minutes to download the BD-Live update. So at this point, the latest generation players are not that far off from each other in load times, with some differences in how they handle BD-Live updates, and all are noticeably perkier than the first and second generation BD players.
On the Video Resolution Loss Test, which tests unit's ability to properly deinterlace i content, the Panasonic passed all lines and properly reconstructed the source into a progressive, p image. On the Diagonal Filtering or "Jaggies" tests, the player passed both tests easily, showing no stair-stepping on or jagged edges on the first test with three waving white bars or the second test with a rotating white bar in a white circle.
The player also proved itself up to the challenge of handling both film and video sources properly in HQV's tests for reverse telecine. Playback of actual content was also spectacular.
Mystery of the Nile displayed incredible amber and blazing reds in the horizon during some of the opening scenes of the film. Blacks on the BD35 are far deeper and colors more saturated, natural, and well delineated. It is possible, however, that the blacks may be a bit too deep causing some unwanted crushing in dark scenes.
Perhaps one's system would need to be recalibrated to take full advantage of the BD35, or some experimentation with the player's own video settings is worthwhile if the blacks look too dark on your specific display. Quite well, actually.
Moving onto the standard definition HQV test DVD, on the test with the rotating white bar, the bar showed only slight jaggies at around degrees.
The pattern of three waving white bars showed only the lowest bar in the pattern displaying some slight wavering. The BD35 definitely put on a good show as an upscaling DVD player here, with fine detail and a clean image, but the diagonal columns on the wall in the background behind Anakin and Obi Wan showed a few more motion jaggies than on the Sony BDP-S during this scene. Overall, however, the BD35 outperformed the S and the Samsung P playing back this particular material.
On the HQV disc's detail tests, the BD35 again did well showing detailed images of a brick bridge and bronze statue. It passed the cadence tests flawlessly, locking in on the signal quickly and showing no artifacts during the pan across an empty grandstand.
On a mixed cadence test, with scrolling horizontal titles on a film-based background, the BD35 again locked in quickly to make the correction as it did with the same test using scrolling vertical lines. The text in both cases was displayed legibly and smoothly. Overall, the player performed well as an upconverting DVD player and even better as a Blu-ray player. Final Thoughts During 's slow holiday shopping season, Blu-ray proved its mettle and emerged as one of the "must have" technologies of the year with many thousands of players sold both at retail Brick and Mortar stores and online.
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Features It's getting a bit old now to bang on about Blu-ray's pathetic lack of interactivity thus far. The profile system is a joke and all involved should be thoroughly ashamed of the whole thing.
But the good news is that we're nearly there now, and Blu-ray is finally starting to produce players that have the same level of interactivity as even the most basic HD DVD players did. The Panasonic is a profile 2 player, which means it has both Bonus View and BD Live, which are respectively the components that allow players to decode secondary video streams and go online for extra content. This addition means that the BD35 is now a very nicely rounded player with as much functionality as you could possibly hope for from a Blu-ray player.
Also featured is Panasonic's trademark SD card slot. Because the Blu-ray players all feature AVC video decoding, it's possible for Panasonic to support its own AVC HD camcorders, which is a smart move considering SD-card-based camcorders are more than likely to be the future. Panasonic was also the first Blu-ray player manufacturer to embrace DivX playback, something we really approve of.
And given the presence of an Ethernet socket on the machine, why not go the whole hog and offer media streaming? Performance Let's start our look at how this machine performs by timing how long it takes for the player to load a disc and start playing it. We picked a movie that has interactive features because these discs generally take ages to load. For this test we use the BD35 and a PS3. We turn both of them on, and then time how long it takes to play a disc after inserting it.
The PlayStation 3 can load our Vantage Point disc in 42 seconds.
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