Panasonic DMP-BDT225 Smart Wi-Fi 3D Blu-ray Player From Panasonic

Panasonic DMP-BDT225 Smart Wi-Fi 3D Blu-ray Player From Panasonic List Price: $129.99 Price: $99.00 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Ships from and sold by Tech99 Average customer review:

Product Description

Panasonic's DMP-BDT230 Blu-ray player packs a lot of compelling features into an inexpensive package. It's quick, full of useful features (including built-in Miracast support), and handles video processing with ease. There are several features such as Multi-User Mode with built-in wifi and so on.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #78 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Panasonic
• Model: DMP-BDT225
• Dimensions: 7.06" h x 1.50" w x 16.93" l, 3.30 pounds

Features

• Built-in Wi-Fi for Smart networking features. Easy streaming of online content from Amazon Instant Video, YouTube and other popular services
• Fast loading for quick viewing of Blu-ray discs
• Miracast - See and share smartphone content through this player
• Has web browsing capability

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Editorial Reviews

From the Manufacturer

Panasonic DMP-BDT225 Smart Network 3D Blu-ray Player

An Unprecedented Viewing Experience

Panasonic Full HD 3D Blu-ray disc players offer outstanding Full HD picture quality with cutting-edge image processing technology. These slim and stylish bodies are packed with high performance. Simple yet advanced, these designs are built to match virtually any room interior.

Smart connected Panasonic Blu-ray players also allow you connect to a variety of network-connectable devices such as smartphones, tablets, PCs, and NAS (network attached storage), and also allow you to access cloud-based services for the enjoyment of various types of content such as movies, video clips, music, and photos.   

Watch 2D Images in 3D

Watch your prized movies in 3D for even greater viewing enjoyment. 2D-3D conversion enables 2D images on DVDs & Blu-ray discs to be displayed in 3D with natural depth perception.

High-Quality Audio Playback

The 2013 players are compatible with a wide variety of formats, which lets them reproduce high-quality sound from audio sources without any degradation in sound quality.  

Miracast Capability

Miracast function lets you mirror the display of smartphone or tablet content on a TV screen. Easily share content from your personal device with friends and family on the big screen. 

Less Power Consumption

This product is Energy Star Qualified and has been designed to consume as little power as possible in order to save precious natural resources. 

Smart TV Made Easy

More fun comes via a cloud service. Smart, connected Panasonic Blu-ray players feature VIERA Connect, a cloud service that provides access to apps for video, music, social networking, games, news, lifestyle, sports, and health/fitness. Popular apps include Amazon Instant Video, Netflix, Facebook, Twitter, and huluplus. Panasonic's VIERA Connect platform makes home entertainment more intuitive, more comfortable, and lots more fun. 

Explore Online Entertainment

VIERA Connect offers greater home entertainment convenience, and enjoyment. From sports and video on demand, to gaming and communication, now you can enjoy a wide variety of content with family and friends from the comfort of your living room. 

View the Internet on the Large Screen

This Panasonic Blu-ray player is equipped with an Internet browser. The websites you view on your PC, smartphone, or tablet can now be displayed on a large-screen TV for everyone in the room to share.  

Smart Home Networking

This product is DLNA-certified and is easy to use with your home network. Share and enjoy digital photos (JPEG), music (MP3, WMA), and videos (AVCHD, WMV) by simply connecting to a network LAN. 

Easily enjoy stored content

2013 players are now compatible with NTFS (NT File System) format external hard disk drives, so you can enjoy music, photos, and camcorder video content archived on an external HDD. 

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     Technical Details

    Key Features: VIERA Connect (requires broadband Internet service), FLAC compatability, Miracast, web browser, DLNA function, Full HD 3D
    Eco-Friendly Features: Energy Star qualified, low power consumption
    What's in the Box: 2013 Blu-ray disc player, user manual, remote 

2013 Panasonic VIERA Blu-ray Disc Player Comparison Chart

Series	DMP-BBT01	DMP-BDT500	DMP-BDT330	DMP-BDT230	DMP-BD89	DMP-BD79
Full HD Playback	Full HD 3D	Full HD 3D	Full HD 3D	Full HD 3D	Full HD	Full HD
Energy Star Qualified
Wi-Fi Capability	Built-in Wi-Fi	Built-in Wi-Fi	Built-in Wi-Fi	Built-in Wi-Fi	Built-in Wi-Fi	Wireless LAN Capable*
VIERA Connect					Online Movies/IP VOD	Online Movies/IP VOD
Fast Booting & Loading					Ultra	Ultra
Multi-User Mode
High Quality Network Audio Playback		(MP3, WMA, AAC, FLAC, WAV)	(MP3, WMA, AAC, FLAC, WAV)	(MP3, WMA, AAC, FLAC, WAV)	(MP3, WMA, AAC, FLAC, WAV)	(MP3, WMA, AAC, FLAC, WAV)
Dolby True HD
2D-3D Conversion
DLNA (DMP/DMR) Function
External HDD Playback
Adaptive Chroma Processing
Miracast Function Capability
SD Memory Slot
Compact Main Unit
Prismatic Cut Form Design
Smartphone Remote Control Capability**
Web Browser
Twin HDMI
Analog Audio 7.1 Channel Output
Built-in 4K Upscaling

*Requires optional wireless adapter
**Does not include smartphone device

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Customer Reviews

Most helpful customer reviews
46 of 48 people found the following review helpful.
A Big Plus
By Ed Shannon
Bought this to replace an existing DVD even tho the need for DVD is waning but it wound up replacing a ROKU I had in place. I found that it streams video from the internet faster and provided me with a much higher quality picture. I didn't buy it for that reason but that's how it worked out. Very pleased.
46 of 50 people found the following review helpful.
Plays Blu-rays
By G. Barton
If you are buying this Blu-ray player to play Blu-rays only, you will be happy. I had to fight way too hard to get and keep the Wi-Fi up to play Netflix and Amazon, and then the streaming quality was not as good as a PS3. Everything else is a 'non-feature,' a come-on to get you to buy the thing, but more trouble than it is worth.

Do not buy this to match your Panasonic TV or reduce your number of remotes. The TV functionality on the player remote is not sufficient to put your TV remote away. Panasonic makes a superior television, but in no way does that ability apparently transfer over to making Blu-ray players. You will be fighting this thing to do 95% of what it says it can do, and where you finally get it to work, it will usually be crap.

One example (of dozens) of a non-feature: the BDT225 says you can put pictures on profiles, but the profile pictures are square, and the only source it draws from (the screen) is rectangular. Thus, the pictures are squished, never cropped. If you start with a square picture, the BDT225 adds black to either side (to make it rectangular) and then squishes the rectangle into the square profile picture, giving you a squished picture with black stripes on the sides. It's like nobody bothered doing quality control for this unit. How could anyone at Panasonic even have tried using this feature and thought that was okay? And yet, this is the type of fighting you have to do to make anything but the basic functionality on the unit usable.

I use this unit, but only for watching Blu-rays, Netflix and Amazon. After 14 hours of trying, I've given up trying to get it to do anything else.
31 of 33 people found the following review helpful.
It works real fine, I watch Blu ray movies with no problem
By ADG
It works real fine, I watch Blu ray movies with no problem. Internet is fast, I watch Netflix with no problem, I haven't found yet any "publicity" problems as I read in other reviews (It was probably updated). All Internet content starts with no delay at all. Really a good buy.