Panasonic BD35 divx playback?

Deleted User 234324 · 8 Apr 2009 at 17:19

Is it just me or doesnt the above BD Player allow divx playback using DVD-RWs ? If thats the case then i think its pretty much useless in that regard

britboy4321 · 8 Apr 2009 at 17:31

I have one. I couldn't get it to work.

It also spends about 35 seconds to open/close the disc-tray. And I'm not even exagerating.

Apart from that though it's cool ... oh -- and loading blu-rays is slow as well! And it could do with wi-fi for internet updates.

Apart from that though ....

Owenb · 8 Apr 2009 at 17:35

Yeah I think that is right. Plays DivX, plays DvD-RW, but not DivX's on DvD-RW!

Cryfreeman · 8 Apr 2009 at 17:40

Yep, got one of these and have ended up having to put divx on cdr's.

Thinking of selling the POS and just saying to hell with it and grabbing a ps3

Deleted User 234324 · 8 Apr 2009 at 17:43

Seems a little daft that i can play divx, and dvd-rw's but not divx on dvd-rw. surely that would be the most common duo for divx playback as you can fit a lot more on a dvd than a cd.

mines connect direct to the network so wifi dont matter, but yeah wifi would be a lot more useful if you were after tidy cables.

Holwill · 9 Apr 2009 at 07:45

It does clearly state divx burnt to dvd-r in the manual not dvd-rw, however daft that may be.

Deleted User 234324 · 9 Apr 2009 at 09:27

Yeah i see it now, just seems silly, my old dvd player thats 4 years old can play divx on dvd-rw just fine, so you'd think a modern would also.

Cryfreeman · 10 Apr 2009 at 16:32

Funny thing is the EB35 has been replaced by the looks of it by the EG35.This one has a USB port which I guess you can play DIVX from. Curse me and my impatience

probedb · 10 Apr 2009 at 19:23

I'm guessing it's probably just non-finalised discs it can't play from. Most players like this can only play from finalised discs.

In all honesty if you want to play avis etc a dedicated media player is much better.

memyselfandi · 11 Apr 2009 at 17:51

britboy4321 said:
I have one. I couldn't get it to work.

It also spends about 35 seconds to open/close the disc-tray. And I'm not even exagerating.

Apart from that though it's cool ... oh -- and loading blu-rays is slow as well! And it could do with wi-fi for internet updates.

Apart from that though ....

Yes, actually you are exaggerating ... I have a BD55 which is the big brother of the BD35 (gains some extra outputs but the insides are basically the same). The 35 seconds figure is an overstatement for opening and closing the disk tray.

To eject from a running blu-ray to an open tray takes ~4 seconds. From open tray to FBI warning being displayed is ~15 seconds on the disks I've been watching today. From that point skipping ahead to the main menu and playing was possible. Initial power on takes a while but that because the software stack loaded is more complex than a straight DVD player and is not that extreme unless you have no patience.

As for not having wi-fi being an issue ... how many consumer blu-ray players have that? .. it's not as if all of them have network access at all. This is you trying to say there is a fault with the player because it doesn't have a feature that it is not advertised as having and it's competitors don't have either.

Oh, and it's been replaced by the BD60, which may support DiVX over USB, (along with MP3 and JPG), and also has some form of internet portal connection giving network access to Youtube.

Youstolemyname · 12 Apr 2009 at 23:36

Slight thread derailment but are there any blu ray players out there, apart from ps3, that you can hook up to a network and stream DivX etc to?