Blu-ray players are nothing new anymore. They are available in any package: lying, standing, with disc tray or slot-in drive. Sometimes discrepants stand for double-digit amounts at the discounter. So why a player for over 200 euros like the DMP-BDT465 from Panasonic?
A fast journeyman
After the test of the brand new player was completed, the testers were able to name a handful of reasons why the newcomer is a hot candidate for any film fan looking for a Blu-ray player. For the first reason, no test is necessary: The new Panasonic looks damn good for a classic mid-class disc cutter. In contrast to the lightweight, more or less cheap plastic optics of many competitors, the matt brushed aluminum top of the DMP-BDT465 really makes something. With precise edges and precisely matching front and side parts, the device looks smart and solid.
Picture gallery
Further reasons are found, as soon as one connects and switches on the player. With a start time of less than 30 seconds, the player is not a sprinter, but reads Blu-ray discs in just 16, CDs and DVDs in just twelve seconds - that can be seen. Even more pleasant is the speed of the player, when you go through menus and functions. Even the media retrieval from DLNA servers in the network or connected USB sticks is faster than with almost any other Blu-ray or network player.
Comprehensively networked
This may seem unimportant to laymen, but in practice, unnecessarily long waiting times often lead to the failure of such functions. For who wants to wait five to ten seconds before a photo of the digital slide show is called? The DMP-BDT465 can even take 16-megapixel photos from the network server within two seconds, thus punishing all the lies that wait for lame networks.
Cross and cross control
Home cinema: Blu-ray player and video streaming
About Photos: As one of the few players in this class, he sends photos in full 4K resolution with 8 megapixels (3,840 x 2,160 pixels) to UHDTVs. Also musically, it offers HiRes talents: In addition to MP3 or AAC music, the Panasonic highfidele plays FLAC audiotracks with a digital resolution of up to 24 bits and 192 kilohertz. He also gets the over the network - and reaches the audio signals decoded in the best possible quality via HDMI. It also provides a good HiRes audio streaming client. You can send music and other data to the player via an external DLNA controller. If it is set to the Renderer mode, it can be integrated into any DLNA Multiroom system.
This means that the network functions of the DMP-BDT465 are not exhausted. Apart from DLNA servers, it also accesses normal hard disks in the home network - such as NAS storage or shared drives on the PC. To do this, you have to enter their IP address and user data and can then access the files directly.
In addition, the player can be powered by Wi-Fi Direct from a tablet or smartphone with music, photos or video. Finally, he supports the Miracast standard to display screens for mobile devices. This works with most current Android and Windows mobile devices.
Compared to the experience with other Miracast clients, the screen mirroring worked smoothly with the Panasonic - synonymous for the fixed player.
The bottom line is that you have a lot of functions under control. The control of the player folds however childlike. The function menus list four points in each level, which are selected using the four directional buttons of the cursor cross. In the main menu you can, for example, switch to network functions, while the other directions lead to video, photo and music playback. In the following menu, the function tree continues to branch - during the media playback in the direction of the disc, USB and SD card memory, in the network area to DLNA, network hard disk, online portal and so on. The control is therefore so simple, because only one single keystroke is necessary for each jump, and one has internalized the logic within a very short time - not to be neglected for beginners.
The speed of the player will also remain in the movie playback. Discs are fixed read, also the menu control in the film never hooked in the test. The player accepts all common audio and video formats, apart from WMV clips. Blu-ray discs he played with high sharpness and scaled it on request in UHD resolution. Whether this looks better than the scaling in the UHD television itself, depends on its qualities. The previous TVs offered very good scaling, but with the more and more often offered low-price UHD devices without high-quality video processors, a scaling in the feeder is always more meaningful.
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The color reproduction of DVDs appeared to us somewhat darker than in Blu-ray films, which was understandable in the measuring laboratory. The conversion of the HDMI image output from the factory setting YUV 4: 4: 4 to RGB can help. On the reference TV, colored structures and details appeared finer and more radiant.
Classic talents
The built-in HD audio decoder decrypts all 5.1 and 7.1 HD audio formats from DVDs and Blu-ray Discs and passes them on PCM via HDMI cable if desired. The player does not have its own bass management. That is why the AV receiver itself has to take care of itself. Alternatively, the DMP-BDT465 will also pass the raw data stream of the respective format.
Remarkable is also the second HDMI output. It originally came with the first 3D Blu-ray player. At that time, the second HDMI jack passed the sound in full quality parallel to the picture HDMI out to AV receiver without 3D-capable signal processing. Today, it serves the same purpose when a UHD TV shows the picture and an AV receiver without UHD-capable HDMI connections is to process the sound.
Conclusion
The DMP-BDT46 5 is easy to use, but it's fast, sharp, universal and easy to control. Its network and smartphone functions are easy to use and are easy to find in the menu. The HD picture quality is great and the weaknesses in the DVD playback can be eradicated. So the Panasonic bottom line is a real highlight
Download: Test results
Download: Data and measured values
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