Our review:Item Description:Have a seat. You're about to enter the digital dimension. Inside the DVD-CP67K, you'll find a digital Cinema Mode that combines brightness control with picture noise canceling. The result is a clear and crisp image that appears on your screen. And from the comfort of your chair, you can adjust the picture on your screen. Built-in Advanced Surround (V.S.S.) and Bass Plus provide channel surround sound that will blow back your hair. It's like going to the movies or a big concert without ever leaving your home. That's the digital dimension.
Amazon.com Review:The best thing about a DVD changer is that it doubles as a CD player (how often will you watch five movies back to back?). Panasonic's DVD-CP67 excels as a player of both movies and music, offering remarkable quality for its price. Its standard interlaced and progressive-scan (HD-ready) images are above average, and it provides the best DVD-based navigation we've seen for MP3 files. The stylish DVD-CP67's progressive-scan outputs produce smooth, vibrant images that must be seen to be believed. Its composite-video and S-video outputs are superb. Other features include 'top menu,' which zips right to the disc's primary content menu (past irritating copyright warnings and previews), sequential CD playback (plays through all five discs), and the ever-handy Quick Replay.
MP3 CDs burned on a PC are a great way to audition songs from the Internet on a home stereo. They also provide the ability to load the DVD-CP67 with about 50 of your favorite albums--that's roughly 10 albums per MP3- or WMA-encoded disc--for some serious uninterrupted playback. The MP3 navigation features on this player are a delight. Wander between albums (folders) with the remote's menu controls, scan within tracks, or select a new song while one is playing and skip right to it quickly. The manual states that the player doesn't support ID3 tags (which display artist, song name, genre, etc.), but in our testing, complete artist and file names were visible.
The player grants both disc and track access from the remote control, where many players make you rely on the 'disc skip' button when you're changing selections from the couch. The supplied remote is sensibly laid out, though the buttons are a tad small. The box includes a detachable power cord and a composite-video/stereo analog audio interconnect.
--Michael Mikesell Pros: - Easy setup
- Stylish design
- Direct-disc and direct-track access on remote
- Above-average picture quality
- Above-average disc loading speed
- Above-average read abilities for MP3 discs
- Excellent MP3 disc navigation
- Fast switching among disc chapters, tracks, and MP3 files
Cons: - Slow start-up
- Analog audio output slightly light in bass
- Does not play JPEG CDs
Amazon.com Item Description:A mere 3 inches tall, Panasonic's DVD-CP67K (also available in silver) gives you the convenience of five-DVD and/or CD playback with multiple-format video outputs, including stunning progressive-scan video for use with an HD or HD-ready set. Whether you currently have HDTV capabilities or you're merely thinking of 'someday,' the CP67K stands ready to deliver. Progressive scanning, referred to as 480p for the number of horizontal lines that compose the video image, creates a picture using twice the scan lines of a conventional DVD picture, giving higher resolution and sharper images while eliminating nearly all motion artifacts.
This player's Cinema Mode cuts down glare and improves color resolution in a darkened living room, Quick Replay jumps back seven to 10 seconds, variable zoom converts any widescreen image to full screen on a 4:3 aspect-ratio TV (eliminating the black bands at the top and bottom of the screen), and high-speed smooth scan zips through a two-hour movie in just 40 seconds. The CP67K is compatible with standard DVD-R (it's guaranteed to play Panasonic DVD-Rs recorded and finalized with a Panasonic DVD video recorder, though others may work as well), CDs, audio CD-Rs and CD-RWs, and discs encoded with MP3 or WMA (Windows Media) audio files. A 192 kHz/24-bit digital-to-analog converter ensures optimal decoding of all disc formats except high-resolution DVD-Audio.
To round out the stereo experience, Advanced Surround (V.S.S.) simulates surround-sound effects using only two speakers, dynamic range compression limits the peak levels of Dolby Digital-encoded programs (found on most DVDs), and the Dialogue Enhancer increases the relative volume of the center channel, making center-channel content easier to hear.
For connections, you get the works: standard composite-video, S-video, and premium component-video outputs. The latter can be switched to deliver either 480i or 480p (progressive-scan) video. The player also has a single set of stereo RCA analog-audio outputs and an optical digital-audio output to feed a surround-sound signal to your Dolby Digital-decoding or DTS-decoding audio/video receiver.
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Buyer Testimonials
Average Buyer's Review:
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Great player until it dies
I had this player for about 2 1/2 years. I don't watch many movies, so it probably got used 2 or 3 times a month. The picture quality is great. It was a pretty nice dvd player. It wasn't as good for CDs, lacking features you'd want in a cd player, but it was ok. It died with the H07 error everyone else is reporting. I thought I would try and fix it with some WD40 like I've seen posted on the web. I tried to open it up and apparently the screws have been glued in or something, and simply will not come out. So I stomped on it a few times, and hit it with a hammer several times. Never managed to open it, it's a pretty rugged case. But I'm pretty sure it's dead now. It makes rattling noises when I pick it up and shake it, and has lots of dents. Oh well, I think my next one won't be a panasonic, since it seems alot of them have this problem
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great--for a while
I loved this thing for three years and four months--one of the best birthday presents I ever received. And then the fateful H07 error...
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HELP US PROTEST PANASONIC FOR THEIR DEFECTIVE DVD PLAYERS!
i heard all the horror stories about panasonic giving NO details about what these messages are, and how they "fix" them for over 100 bucks only for them to BREAK again. Let's all report them and make a big stink and get new players or refunds as we keep getting our friends to make a big deal out of Panasonic making shotty defective DVD players then committing fraud by charging to not even fix the players! They'll either give us, in numbers, refunds or replacements to shut us up or fix their damn crappy players to keep bad press and this word of mouth movement from growing!
LET US ACT!
1st:
contact and complain to,
Panasonic Corporation
1025 Washington Pike
Bridgeville, PA 15017
(412)257-4522
or
email their Customer Support at www.panasonic.com
2nd:
When they blow you off and do not tell you what the error message is or how to fix it or offer any support go to the Better Buisness Bureau site
www.bbb.org
CLICK on FILE A COMPLAINT
MAKE SURE: You record and tell them:
-who at Panasonic you spoke to or replied to ur email
-the dates you complained
-the make and model of your player, etc.
Tell them in the section of the BBB complaint form that this is a Product Quality situation and basically just re-write the horror stories you posted on this forum. Tell them you have HUNDREDS of written accounts of shotty H07 or H02 (etc)messages you found from hundreds of panasonic customer reviews and interactions on electronic and consumer sites like this one and they will be complaining soon...even copy/paste some (with the url addy for proof!)
-When asked for a desired outcome, tell BBB you are ENTITLED to a refund since Panasonic knowingly are selling defective DVD players to NUMEROUS people and blowing ALL of them off for repairs or even courtesy HELP with what the heck the message means. Tell them they are robbing and commiting fraud upon consumers and demand your money back from them and for them to publicly apoligize and vow to FIX all problems with their products before selling them.
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PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW ONLINE AND IN YOUR REAL LIFE TO JOIN THE CAMPAIGN.
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H07 Error Code
I bought a DVD for my son within the last 2 years and now the unit is displaying error code H07. Do not buy Panasonic.
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H07? Call Panasonic
If you still have a unit that has experienced the H07 death message, call Panasonic Executive Customer Relations at 201-392-6870. Politely but firmly ask them what they are doing about this widespread problem, and tell them you would like them to fix your unit at no charge.