Panasonic DMP-BD84

Panasonic Player

This Blu-Ray/DVD/other formats player is easy to use and good value at its price.

No problems great

Easy to install and use especially at my age

Very useful features

Great price. Only issue: a little show in starting up.

Unsatisfactory Blu-Ray Plaer

This product was a complete waste of money. It will play purchased Blu-Ray discs satisfactorily, but would not work properly with my home burnt Blu-Ray discs. The problem was although it would play computer discs quite well, the fast forward would not work. This means that if I wanted to see something at the end of the disc, I would have to wait 2 hours for the player to reach the end. This is totally unacceptable. This came as a surprise as I have found Panasonic Blu-Ray Recorders play all my discs satisfactorily. Soon after this purchase I bought a Sony BDP-S3500 Blu-Ray player, and I am pleased to say that this worked well. So to sum up, this Panasonic product may be quite adequate if only used for playing purchased commercial discs, but for playing computer generated discs a Sony Blu-Ray player appears to be a much better choice.

Works well

No problems easy to install and operate

BlueRay Player - Cheap and cheerful but does the job

When I collected this unit, I was slightly apprehensive as its very small & light compared to previous units we have had. However once connected it plays well and setup is easy and although the main menu GUI is annoying especially when you set HDMI control on all your kit and seems to want priority...

Poor internet performance

It all seemed to work but the wired network was very poor. I tested the Ethernet on my Virgin TiVo and that was fine. The symptoms include a long start up of iPlayer, buffering and freezing. The menu system didn't seem straight forward and a bit clunky. There are very limited apps available.

Great apart from one thing

It's a blu ray/DVD player and it plays them well, no complaints. The only issue is the 'smart feature' it needs a wired connection and doesn't have a wireless option. You can buy smart TV boxes for a few quid that are wireless so it's disappointing as I don't fancy trailing wires all over the place...

Great player which has played every disc I've put in but it powers off too quickly if you pause or stop a disc. Even more annoying is that it doesn't save where you were on the disc so you have to reload and skip through to resume from where you were watching. Completely ruins this player.