Entered CNET Catalog: 01/08/2008
SKU: 0037988256754
Manufacturer: Panasonic
Manufacturer description
Take your favorite movies to the next level with the Panasonic full-HD Blu-ray Disc home theater system. Blu-ray discs give you superior sound, stunning HD-quality images, and exciting new interactive capabilities like Final Standard Profile for enhanced commentary, audio mixing and picture-in-picture features previously unthinkable in the DVD format. With Blu-ray, you'll never have to leave the couch for a big-screen quality movie experience. Combining a PHL Reference chroma processor with advanced P4HD (Pixel Precision Progressive Processing) imaging technology, UniPhier - the precise digital video processor - reproduces crisp, natural colors that are extremely faithful to the original movie. It does this by up-sampling the color information in decoded video signals, while the super high-speed P4HD up-converts content recorded in 480i/p, 720p or 1080i format to 1080p by correctly generating each pixel according to information drawn from up to 60 surrounding pixels. The image motion of each pixel is then categorized into one of 16 levels, from stationary to super fast. Image quality is further enhanced by diagonal processing, which creates smooth, sharp diagonal lines, and 3:2 pull-down, which optimizes the processing accordingly for film or video making the images look natural and lifelike. In addition, the BT100's HDMI output is deep color compatible, with 4,096 steps of gradation for even smoother, finer-quality images that meet Hollywood's stringent demands, so you can experience movies just the way they were meant to be experienced. With precise digital audio, Blu-ray's beautiful images are complemented by exceptionally pure, accurate sound thanks to the included 5.1 channel surround sound of Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD and expandability to advanced 7.1 channel surround sound. Use of a highly rigid bamboo material in the center and front speakers helps achieve an extremely pure, clean sound. A Kelton Subwoofer system with a dual diameter structure delivers a deep, powerful bass. Whisper-mode surround allows you to enjoy rich surround sound even when watching movies at low volume. The built-in universal dock for iPod gives you a great new way to enjoy music and video. Just slip your iPod into the cradle and enjoy. The dock charges your iPod, allows you to use the home theater remote to control the iPod, has on-screen audio menus, and also plays back iPod video. You can also use the system's convenient SD card slot, which allows easy viewing of hi-def videos and photos on your VIERA HDTV. The newly enhanced VIERA Link displays a menu on the TV screen, making it easier to operate your connected Blu-ray Disc home theater system. For example, you can display a menu with a list of the movies or music stored on your iPod, and use the VIERA remote control unit to select one and begin playback.User opinions
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3.5 stars
out of 3 user reviews
Great system, but a few flaws.
Pros: The system sounds great for an HTIB. The dual midrange drivers in each of the satellites generate a warm, room-filling sound and they also stage extremely well for their size.
Cons: The wireless rear-channel receiver has a difficult time maintaining a consistent connection to the transmitter in the main unit. The result is intermittent loss of signal and an annoyed listener.
Review: Overall it is a great system.
User Rating:
0.5 stars
out of 3 user reviews
Beware of the sc-bt100!
Pros: WHEN it worked it sounded great.
Cons: Worked for 5 months.
Review: Message for others: We will never buy anything from panasonic again!!! Our blueray player kept cutting out on the sound when we played any movies. Customer service was horrible!!! After several calls and sending it out for service at their warranted repair shop it still isn't working properly. We had to pay for shipping ourselves and then were told we would have to pay for shipping AGAIN to send to the same place that couldn't fix it before...such crap. And apparently the telephone agents have ADD since they can't ever seem to refer to their notes or case number. We get the same calls from different agents with the same questions over and over again....wasting our time. We will never purchase anything again from them.
User Rating:
5.0 stars
out of 3 user reviews
Great sound and picture when I connected to my LN46A650
Pros: Great shound, Great Blu-ray loading and picture, Remote back speakers
Cons: Does not play Blu-Ray 2 profile features, Need 2 remotes
Review: Great system for the price (best-but $749). Great sound. Amazing picture and very good load time.
