Panasonic DMP-BD901 Blu-ray Player

A lot of capability in a small, economical package
This was a Christmas present purchased at our local discount department store for less than a $100. For the money the Panasonic DMP-BD901 BluRay Player provides a lot of bang for the buck. Below is my review:

Likes

Plays a lot of video formats

Good user interface

Very good manual

Hard drive support

High definition audio playback for both FLAC and WAV files

Dislikes

No analog or SPDF output capability

Does not support legacy High Definition audio discs

BluRay players have come a long way in the last few years and this is a very good example of that. I bought this player for use with the television in the sewing room and so was not looking for a lot of sophisticated features. As it turns out, I got most of the things I would be looking for in a main system player anyway.

I have tried most of the normal CD, DVD, and BluRay formats except the net enabled ones and had no...

Initially worked beautifully!! Loved that I can watch a movie ...
Initially worked beautifully!! Loved that I can watch a movie off an external drive with USB.
wife has watched marathons of Netfilx and things ran great till now.... about ... two months later:

I saw this review on the DMP-BD871 2D Blu Ray DVD unit and am having the same problems here:

{ there were DVD menu freezes, streaming freezes, then a notice popped up for a firmware update. After updating, it freezes more often than before, and has gotten to the point where even the power button on top of the machine won't work. In order to get back to the menu, you have to physically unplug it, then turn it on, at which point it will freeze when trying to access the network. Then you can exit out, return to the home menu, and if you are lucky, use it for another hour before it freezes again, when you have to unplug it and start over. It won't play an entire movie without freezing, and at most you can watch 45 minutes of Netflix. Even after being disconnected from...

Don't do it, keep looking.
I purchased the Panasonic DMP-BD901 from a big box store. It has a ton of desirable features, and for under $100 I thought it was a great deal. However I am going to return it as my experience with it has been terrible. Let me start off by saying that the remote control was poorly conceived to say the least. They made it entirely too small and the buttons are packed so close together that both my wife and I were always pressing the wrong button, which mostly leads to the video we are attempting to watch closing. And besides terrible design of the remote, the function of the player itself is awful. The player will periodically shut itself off in the middle of movies for no apparent reason what so ever. The first couple time it happened I blamed it on the dog sitting on the remote. But then I started noticing it happened even when the remote was sitting on the table. Add to that the fact that as mentioned in a previous review it is ridiculously slow, and it often won't connect with the...

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