Why are the Panasonc Blu Ray players going up in price? Does anyone know why?
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This is an artifact of the good reputation of the BD35K/BD55K and the fact that they have been discontinued, no new ones are available, and the replacement models announced by Panasonic at CES won't be shipping for several weeks. In the meantime, with limited supply and continuing demand, vendors that have them will charge what the market will bear.
1918699
I just got an email today from Amazon.... they ARE now advertising the free blu ray player... it expires Jan. 30th though FYI.
382834
I bought that Sharp TV 3 days ago and at the time of check out I was surprized by the offer for a free Blu Ray player. Put it in your cart and see what happens. I did not know about the promotion, so it was a complete freebie to me
2261827
Then how do you explain people buying up all the Wii's and then selling them at $100 or more over MSRP? I'm sorry but these sellers are GREED merchants. But obviously there are some customers willing to support that greed. Wise up. Amazon shouldn't give these people a place to peddle their greed. We don't need Amazon to tell us where to find these overpriced Blu-ray players. Amazon could tell us when they expect to receive the new BD60/BD80. That's a service we can use.
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I have this same issue with an earlier model (BDP-S350). For me the problem began when my blu-ray player automatically updated its firmware last spring. Even blu-ray disks that played fine earlier stopped playing, although many of the new disks that I've tried work fine. Sony appears to be oblivious to this issue not providing any meaningful customer support. There are several possible solutions posted on the SONY website and on various discussion forums for other models (e.g, turn off the Internet access, clear the USB jump drive memory, unplug the unit from the AC power for a minute or two). None of them worked in my case. I finally gave up and bought a new Panasonic player; out of principle I persisted in trying to 'fix' my Sony blu-ray player for quite a while and eventually decided to pay a few buck to buy my way out of the aggravation). Bye, bye Sony products, hello Panasonic (They also burned me years ago for discontinuing support [e.g., driver updates] for one of their expensive Vaio computers.).
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Ya know, I wonder if Amazon tracks the interest (no of hits) on an item, then raises the price temporarily because it "senses" pending purchases. Ya gotta believe they do this. Why else the $20 increase? Then again, why not a $50 increase?Hope you guys get your SR606 in time for Christmas. Don't let the $20 turn you off. This should be a really good system and you can make-up the $20 by purchasing your HDMI, etc cables at Monoprice.com (there's my Christmas present/tip to you both!).Tony
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I bought the BD-30K about a week ago after reading way to many tech reviews and forums.I chose it because it's the latest version and have been very happy with other Panasonic components as well as the connections for 5.1 Dolby accomodate my older Sony Receiver. Set up was easy, picture and sound are great. There is a flicker upon initial upload that takes a few seconds to stop, not sure if this will be taken care of with firmware update 1.2 that I haven't done yet. The best part of this is the upscaling of older standard def DVD's they look so good I have no interest in updating any to Blu-ray. Hope this helps
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Thanks for the info Kevin, just got back from a huge dvd store here and I noticed a lot of Blu Ray discs marked 'all regions' (1,2,3) on the back of them so Sony may be trying relax restrictions for now to corner the market here. I also just found out that's it's pointless getting a blu-ray and/or hd-dvd player as my 3 year old 43" Pioneer Plasma with external hig def set top box can only output 1024 X 768 pixels max, so I wouldn't visibly see blu-rays or hd-dvd's 1080p potential...think I'm better off just getting a good upscaling dvd player & a good hdmi cable. Except for PS2, dvd players/recorders sold here are region free out of the box anyway. Will look out for Oppo but don't think it's sold here. Thanks for the info Kevin, just got back from a huge dvd store here and I noticed a lot of Blu Ray discs marked 'all regions' (1,2,3) on the back of them so Sony may be trying relax restrictions for now to corner the market here. I also just found out that's it's pointless getting a blu-ray and/or hd-dvd player as my 3 year old 43" Pioneer Plasma with external hig def set top box can only output 1024 X 768 pixels max, so I wouldn't visibly see blu-rays or hd-dvd's 1080p potential...think I'm better off just getting a good upscaling dvd player & a good hdmi cable. Except for PS2, dvd... » Read More Thanks for the info Kevin, just got back from a huge dvd store here and I noticed a lot of Blu Ray discs marked 'all regions' (1,2,3) on the back of them so Sony may be trying relax restrictions for now to corner the market here. I also just found out that's it's pointless getting a blu-ray and/or hd-dvd player as my 3 year old 43" Pioneer Plasma with external hig def set top box can only output 1024 X 768 pixels max, so I wouldn't visibly see blu-rays or hd-dvd's 1080p potential...think I'm better off just getting a good upscaling dvd player & a good hdmi cable. Except for PS2, dvd players/recorders sold here are region free out of the box anyway. Will look out for Oppo but don't think it's sold here. « Show Less
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Am I crazy, or is it more than a bit offputting that, after buying a machine, you then have to start getting upgrades for it just to be able to play newer discs? My machine's about two years old, and the last disc I bought wouldn't load. Seems like a rip-off to me. And it's not like blu-ray sales have been strong enough to justify this sort of customer fleecing.
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ME Technologies sells a USB Super-BluDrive for $79, which includes software that can play Blu-ray movies. There are also two softwares. One is Aurora Software's Blu-ray Player for $30 android the other is Macgo's Mac Blu-ray Player for $60. Mac Blu-ray is due for a 3.0 update. Both are pretty much the same. Check out their reviews online.
1680318
If you Google this Panasonic item you will find that MFSP is $70 but I could not find it for that price and I refuse to pay the prices that I did find which ranged from $300+ to $500+. It is criminal.
203909
Don't do it! Not for what Pana$onic want$!If yours doesn't last much longer than a year so what.Next year's model will be better and possibly cheaper!Tape drives had to be cleaned and had a lot of moving parts that wore out.Like your DVD, Blu-ray players have few things to go bad.
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Rose, excellent point. Your the first one I've seen to point that out. That's a pretty big deal. We very well could be here same time next year, still talking about this as those are enough to keep the HD DVD ship sailing. Besides, Paramount is locked in by contract throughout the year. Toshiba is increasing advertising and lowering prices. And most of all, movie studios aren't loyal to formats. They'll go where the money is and if HD DVD shows enough potential, any one of the Blu studios could go Red at anytime.
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There will be a few new Canon HD cameras coming in March. Maybe this is the reason for this price drop. Or maybe Canon wants to monopolize the market. Could be both... Blu-Ray player will be able to recognize the HG10 HD files format. You have to select AVCHD format in the Corel application to create such disk. But personally, I prefer to keep my files on HD.
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I just sent the same request to Amazon customer service. Maybe if they get enough requests something will happen. our BD 570 is only 2 years old - so were not ready to go shopping for a new Blu-ray player yet.here are the links for customer service @ both sites - if we barrage them with requests - maybe something will happen?https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/contact-us?ie=UTF8&nodeId;=508510&https://wws.lg.com/us/support/message-customer-support
2124506
thanks I was thinking about waiting but doing the research it seems that there will not be any cast improvements in tech on the tv. This combined with the great prices on them are making it mighty inticing to purchase. I like my panasonic I have now but I feel the picture could be better. Thats why I want to upgrade I'm just trying to justify buying spending the money.
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Promotion is here:http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1000319681But all the blu-ray players are out of stock :-o.