- Front-Loading 5-Disc
Carousel -- Some players play up to five
DVD-Video discs, for your enjoyment in virtually any digital
format. The front-loading 5-disc rotary carousel design lets you change
any of the four non-playing discs without disturbing the movie you're
watching, or the music you're listening to. These changers' front panel
LEDs conveniently display the location of loaded discs, which disc is
playing and the position of the disc tray when the drawer is open.
- 54MHz 10-bit Video
Digital-to-Analog Converter -- A D/A converter using
54MHz oversampling helps bring out the stunning beautiful picture
quality of the DVD player models equipped with progressive scanning
capability. By processing the DVD video signal at 4 times the original
13.5MHz rate, this technology provides vivid and finely textured image
reproduction. To provide a magnificent picture, the recorded 8-bit DVD
image data receives 10-bit processing for faithful reproduction that
extends to delicate signal details.
- Progressive Scanning for
Outstanding Reproduction -- Progressive scanning doubles
the scan lines of an interlaced signal (from 480i to 480p) by scanning
all 525 lines in 1/60 of a second for each pass. The higher-density
video signal creates film-like DVD images extraordinarily close to the
way they originally appeared in the cinema - with rich detail,
extraordinary depth of field, and precise color reproduction. With the
rising popularity of high definition televisions and their ability to
accept and reproduce a progressive scan DVD picture, Panasonic's new and
expanded line of DVD progressive players are positioned to take full
advantage of this growing format.
- Auto Switching Field/Frame
Still -- Depending upon whether the original program
source is film or video, still images can either be reproduced as
individual frames or individual fields. With the Auto Switching
Field/Frame Still feature in DVD players, you can enjoy
incredibly still, detailed images free of jitter, regardless of the
source.
- Digital Cinema Mode
- Cinema mode combines brightness control with picture noise canceling
to provide better picture quality in certain viewing conditions. It
lessens glare, giving you colors that are more cinema-like and picture
resolution that is gentler to the eyes. Cinema mode also improves the
visibility of details in dark scenes by automatically adjusting picture
contrast, and helps to suppress color smearing, as well.
- Discrete Component Video
Out -- A picture-enhancing advancement in DVD-Video
technology. It keeps the black and white, red, and blue signals of the
video image intact (and separate) during transmission, to maintain
incredibly high picture quality. Thanks to component video out, these
DVD players produce images with higher resolution and more accurate
colors than conventional DVD-Video players.
The discrete video out terminals also let you transmit digital video
to compatible video equipment, or connect your DVD-Video player to more
than one monitor at a time.
- MPEG Digital Noise Reduction
(Mosquito/Block/3D) -- During Playback, advanced 3D-DNR
circuitry effectively and selectively removes only noise components from
the signal. In addition, to suppress the compression noise
characteristic of the MPEG format, Block Noise Reduction reduces the
square-shaped 'block distortion' that can easily occur in scenes of
rapid motion, while Mosquito Noise Reduction reduces the noise around
sharp edges that can look something like small flying insects. The
result is stunningly clear image reproduction.
- Monitor Select --
For optimum viewing enjoyment, the monitor select function lets users
choose the best connection option according to the type of display being
used, whether it’s a direct-view television, rear-projection monitor,
plasma screen or video projector.
- Dialogue Enhancer -
Most of the movie dialog recorded in surround sound formats (either
Dolby Digital®, DTS® or Dolby Pro
Logic®) is heard through the center channel speaker. At
times, dialog can be overwhelmed by particularly loud sounds emanating
from the other speakers in your surround sound system. The dialog
enhancer increases the center channel volume (relative to other
channels), making movie dialog easier to hear and understand.
- Advanced Virtual Surround
Sound -- Even without an elaborate home theater system,
you can still enjoy the thrilling sounds of the movies thanks to
Advanced Virtual Surround Sound. This technology creates the
surround sound effect by simulating surround-channel sounds using only
two front speakers!*
*Works with Dolby Digital® 2, 5 and 5.1 channel discs only.
- Built-in dts and Dolby Digital
Decoders -- Some players are equipped with built-in dts
and Dolby Digital decoders, eliminating the need for an external
decoder. When you play DVD-Video discs encoded with Dolby Digital
soundtracks, the decoder processes all six channels of audio information
(left front, right front, center, left-surround, right-surround and
low-frequency-effects). It also lets you control speaker configuration.
With the proper audio components, you'll enjoy the exceptional fidelity
of discrete 5.1 channel surround sound.
Offering incredible digital surround sound, dts (Digital Theater
Sound) is the sound system of choice for many movie theaters.
- Optical Digital Output for dts
and Dolby Digital Decoders -- Some DVD players
are equipped with dts and Dolby Digital out. When connected to an
optional decoder, you can enjoy the amazing 5.1 channel digital surround
sound offered by dts and Dolby Digital encoded discs on your DVD player.
- 192kHz/24-bit Digital/Analog
Converter -- DVD-Audio's extreme fidelity comes from its
much greater sampling rates and bit depths. In fact, at its
192kHz/24-bit maximum, DVD-Audio can reproduce high frequencies up to
96kHz, nearly five times the audio spectrum, while achieving dynamic
range of 144dB. These high-frequency components of the audio signal
beyond 20kHz play key roles in communicating delicate musical nuances,
hall ambience, and soundstage imaging.
- Audio Only Circuit
-- Protection against noise is provided by the Audio Only circuit that
isolates the audio circuitry from the video circuitry. The result is
exceptionally pure signal reproduction.
- Digital Re-Master
Processing -- Digital Re-Master Processing is designed to
provide higher quality audio reproduction by extending the reproduced
frequency range of discs recorded at 48kHz or 44.1kHz/16-bit beyond
their 20kHz boundaries. This Digital Re-Master Processing works by using
DSP to create a high range signal above 20kHz comprising a virtually
natural harmonic structure and adding this to the originally recorded
data on the disc, thereby extending reproduced response into the
ultra-high range. Together with the 192kHz/24-bit D/A converter, this
helps achieve more natural, higher quality audio reproduction.
Therefore, you can enjoy superior sound quality even with your current
CDs.
- Chapter Preview --
Chapter preview serves as a tool to refresh your memory about a movie
you haven't seen all the way through. If you keep the disc in the player
and press PLAY again, chapter preview automatically shows you the first
three seconds of each previously viewed chapter. The unit will proceed
with normal play once it reaches the position where you left off.
- Hi-Speed Smooth Motion
Scan -- This feature provides crystal clear scan quality
in five speeds, ranging from slow motion to high speed, in both forward
and reverse. At the highest setting, you can search at an incredible 200
times the normal speed in order to rapidly locate desired points on a
disc.
- On-Screen Menu
Icons -- For a new level of operational convenience.
Select DVD players now feature easy to use on-screen menu
icons which allow you to control a variety of settings via remote
control.
- MP3 and WMA
Playback -- For contents recorded on CD-R/RW media from
CDs for your personal use. Plays back MPEG Layer 3 (.MP3) and Windows
Media (.WMA) Internet audio formats. Playability may vary depending on
contents and discs.
- Position Memory (5
Discs) -- Lets you eject a disc part way through a movie
and later resume viewing from that same point. This handy functions
remembers the location where viewing was interrupted for up to 5 discs
-- a true convenience for a family with a wide range of tastes in
entertainment.
- Twin Laser Pickup for DVD/CD
Playback -- Using one objective lens with two laser units
having different wavelengths optimized for DVD and CD reproduction, this
advanced pickup can also play CD-R/RW discs. The integrated design of
the Twin Laser Pickups DVD unit reduces noise pickup by using an OSIC
(optical electric IC) with built-in I/V amp. This highly sensitive
state-of-the-art optical pickup is made possible by advanced
optical device technology.
- Easy to Operate Remote
Control -- The large cursors make DVD software menu
operation incredibly simple. Better still, often-used keys are laid out
around the cursors, so you can perform more operations with a single
finger.
- HighMAT Compatible
-- High-Performance Media Access Technology (HighMAT), co-developed by
Panasonic and Microsoft, designed to significantly improve
interoperability for digital media content between PCs* and popular
electronic devices such as CD players, car stereos and DVD players.
HighMAT is a digital-media standard that provides a dramatically
improved method of storing, arranging and playing back personal digital
photo, music and video collections on recordable discs such as CD-RW
media.
Consumers worldwide use an increasing variety of electronic devices
to store, organize and access digital media. HighMAT delivers a simple,
standardized approach that allows consumers to:
- Create and manage personal collections of digital music, video and
photography on a PC.
- Move digital media files (using recordable media such as CD-R and
CD-RW) between the PC and various playback devices such as CD and DVD
players.
* Microsoft plans to support HighMAT in the final release of Windows
Media(TM) Player 9 Series and in future versions of Windows Movie Maker
2, the digital video editing and publishing feature of Windows(R)
XP.
- Audio/JPEG Navigation
Menu -- Enables you to quickly search for JPEG, MP3 and
WMA files recorded onto CD-R and CD-RW discs via an on-screen menu with
online confirmation of file folders. This function also works with CD-R
discs that feature multi-session recordings.
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