Panasonic SC BT100 5 1 Blu Ray Home Theater System Black
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. 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. 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. 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. High Definition (1080p) Up-Conversion Rear Wireless Ready HDMI Digital Output, Component Out, Composite Out, Video Out, Optical Digital Inputs, Audio Inputs
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Great bang for the buck
This product delivers everything it said it would and for the price you can’t beat the performance, sound, and ease of setup. A few quirks have been found in the 8 months I have used mine. The volume will go all the way up or down on occasion. You need to power the unit down for a minute or two then restart it. Also, I tried to do a firmware update per the mfr instructions but it didn’t work. If you have a Harmony remote, you can’t place a D-In button on it easily. If you own the Harmony, you’ll find out what a pain that is. But these are all minor issues for the price point. I would have spent over 2K for the separate componants. Sure the sound and inputs would have been better, but for a budget, this system rocks.
4 Stars Great value
This system was exactly what I expected. A Blue Ray disc player with 5.1 wireless surround sound. The system was very easy to install and works flawlessly with my Panasonic Viera HDTV.
The only reason I didn’t give it a 5-star rating is the user’s manual is maddening to use. It is not very clear and it takes a lot of experimenting (trial & error) to figure out how to properly control the system with the remote.
But it sounds great!
4 Stars Good Sound – Very Nice System
Panasonic SC-BT100
We have had this system for about a month now and have had no problems of any kind. Many of the good points and bad points of other reviewers; we found to be true and were therefore no surprise to us.
Delivery was flawless and the shipping package was in fine shape when it arrived.
Very well packed by the factory, there was no damage and unpacking was easy.
The Plus’s
+As noted by other reviewers, the sound quality is very good and the power is fine for movies and television. However, this is not a high power stereo and will not replace one.
Some had complained that it did not have enough power for them but I think it’s fine for what it is designed to do. If you want to blast your favorite metal band, then buy a stereo.
+Other people found the instructions to be inadequate and lacking. I did find them to be somewhat minimal however, the information was sufficient to meet my needs and I would say don’t let that be a concern.
+This system will play anything and it has the AM/FM radio and CD functions as well.
+There are many many combinations of settings on this system and although I have not gone through everything, I have been pleased with the results.
The Minuses
-It is inconceivable that on a system of this complexity that there is NO eject button on the remote! This is completely absurd. It must be because there is just soooo much stuff on this remote that they must have simply ran out of space! This really annoying.
-Some have complained that the volume knob light is too bright in a darkened room but, there is a “dim” setting for that too so, that is not a concern.
-The speaker wires for the speakers are simply too short. In a large room you are limited to the short speaker wires and this can really be a problem if you have to “make a place for it” somewhere in the middle of a wall or something. The speaker wires have a special connector on them and modifying them from the start would be expensive, cumbersome, and unacceptable. Just remember that the connections between the central unit in the front are limited and the wires from the little surround amplifier and the rear speakers is limited as well.
Overall I think you will be very happy with the service and this system.
1 Star Do not buy this.
When setting up speakers,color coded wires where all wrong to ports, when tested it showed white was not white and so on. Put wires into as suggested by test and it worked ok, but no definition on speakers. Called in local fix it guy told to call Panosonic.Called Pano 45 min wait and then told they would call back tomorrow. I waited in morning no call, but they called in afternoon when I was out and left a message,that had no reference of whom to call back.Called back waited 30 min and was disc. Called Back another 45min wait amd was told to call repair shop and bring it to them, which is 45 miles away.Pano did not try to help.So being disgusted with this company I will retire this system and find and buy from local dealer.Oh, and lights that tell you when its on went out also. Junk, maybe not, support not there at all. Michael Orlando
4 Stars REally like this player but having a problem with the setup
I purchased this unit to complement our new 42 inch Panasonic HD TV. It displays Blu Ray Discs and other formats beautifully. The surround sound complements both the movies and the TV sound. However, I cannot get the TV to recognize the Blu Ray setup using the HDMI cable port. The TV recognizes the composite cable and the component cable but not the HDMI. I’ve spend hours pouring over the directions trying different setups with no success. The manual is very scanty, and not user friendly. IN addition, the Viera Link is really very useless. Any ideas as to why I cant get the HDMI cable connection to work ? Otherwise we are very happy with this unit.
