Progressive Scan (again) and the Panasonic RP-56

-justin-

Ron (or anyone else),

I just recently got a new 57" Toshiba Widescreen TV (man that just flows off the tounge) and I'm all excited and got it hooked up and ..... BAMM!!! My damn DVD player broke -- Apex piece of crap.

Anyway, I saw that you had bought the Panasonic RP-56 about a month or so ago, and I want to know a little bit about it.

Also, what progressive scan brands are good (under $400 man, I just dropped a lotta dough on a TV).

Thanks,

~JB

-justin-

Ahh! I just checked www.bestbuy.com and looked at the rear view -- NO coaxial cable out! I need that man. We use the optical out on the playstation2, so that one's all taken up.

Ughh...

What about Toshiba SD-3750?

~JB

Ron-P

Congrats Justin :cool:

I bought these three:

Panny RP56
Sony NS700p
JVC XVS60

I kept the JVC, it flat out has the best progressive picture of the trio. Very sharp, vibrant colors, clean and detailed. The unit is solid and quiet. I've had it just over a month now and am still amazed at the picture when I spin a disk.

One thing is that the JVC does not have a de-interlacing chip it derives its progressive picture directly from the disk. Could be one reason for the great picture quality, I dunno. The JVC does suffer with video based material, the worst of the three, but not bad. But, I bought it for the best progressive picture, not for video stuff, (usually menus, extras and so forth are video based).

The RP56 suffers from the Flicker Bug, your over saturated colors will flash very rapidly. It poped right out at me and was very distracting (Toy Story and Gladiator were bad). It has the weakest of the progressive pictures, soft and flat washed out colors. It also had the cheapest build of the three. It has a darker or lighter feature, a true pain in the **** and no way to turn it off. Very dissapointed with this player.

The Sony has the Chroma Bug. I tried to find it, but could not. Better picture than the RP56, but grainy, colors were better and picture more detailed. Good build quality.

So far I am very impressed with the JVC. I bought it locally for $229.00.

I be right back. I did some lenghtly reviews on the players head-to-head and posted them over at the Home Theater Forum. I'll go get them and come back.


Peace Out~:D

Ron-P

JVC


RP56 & NS700p

Read thru these threads....good info and responses.


Peace Out~:D

Ron-P

To add, again.........watch out for Toshiba, there new players still suffer from the Chroma bug and audio drop-outs. Just a heads up.


Peace Out~:D

-justin-

The JVC does suffer with video based material, the worst of the three, but not bad.

I'm not sure what this means. Can you explain the difference between video and film based DVDs?

Great links by the way, a lot of good discussions about the players.

~JB

Ron-P

Justin go here: HomeTheaterHiFi

Lots of good info on progressive scan, players and they also did a shootout of a lot of brands.

Fill your brain.

At the bottom of the page is a link to the shootout. Go see the JVC and they will explain how the JVC derives its interlaced picture from the progressive flags and why it suffers. But, it is not near as bad as they report.

All players have bugs of different kinds. Pick the bugs you can live with and live a harmonious relationship.

Most all your DVD movies are film based. The menus, extra features and such are video based because they are not shot on film. Read up on the JVC players in the shootout they explain it really well.

Peace Out~:D

PETERNG

For $440, I think the Panasonic DVD-RP91 is a better value, this one plays most CD discs, CD-R, CD-RW, MP3, DVD, DVd-RAM, DVD-A, Progressive Scan 4:4:4, 4:3, digital noise reduction, swithable component video out (480i/480p), built in DTS and DD decoders, illuminated joy stick remote...quality built...