Panasonic DVD-S97S

Panasonic DVD-S97S Review

Blending astounding performance with a new, elegant design, The Panasonic DVD-S97S DVD player with HDMI is engineered with a host of advanced features to deliver an unsurpassed home theater experience.

Panasonic's top of the line single-disc player, the Panasonic DVD-S97S adds an HDMI connection, providing high quality, uncompressed digital audio/video signal transmission. This avoids complicated and troublesome connection of components. This single-disc DVD player also adds DVD-Audio playback, bringing 6 channels of incredibly powerful and realistic surround sound to living rooms everywhere. Other audio and video enhancement features included in the Panasonic DVD-S97S are:

• Bass Plus: Delivers enhanced bass sound when an optional subwoofer is connected to the DVD player, resulting in clear, powerful bass tones.

• Cinema Mode: Diminishes glare and improves the visibility of details in dark scenes by automatically adjusting picture contrast.

• Depth Enhancer: Reduces background noise in a video image.

• Dialogue Enhancer:ÊBoosts the volume of the center channel, from which most of the principal dialogue emanates, when playing a movie featuring Dolby Digital 5.1 sound.

• Hi-Speed Smooth Motion Scan: Enables fast-forward/reverse at up to 200 times normal speed, offering a quick way to access desired scenes.

• Optical digital output for DTS and Dolby Digital surround sound.

All Panasonic DVD models are Energy Star qualified, meaning they meet or exceed Energy Star performance levels established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy. HDMI-HDCP Interface HDMI is a new standard digital connection between A/V devices, such as a set-top box, DVD player or A/V receiver, and a digital television. HDMI offers exceptional video and audio quality with a single quick-disconnect connector. It supports multi-channel digital audio transmissions and component video color spacing for true rendering of HD video. HDMI supports the HDCP copy protection standard, allowing transmission of copy-protected digital content to your display. The video portion of HDMI is also backwards-compatible with DVI-HDCP devices using an optional cable adapter (part number TY-SCH03DH).

What Features Does the Panasonic DVD-S97S Have?

• Model: DVD-S97S

• Item Package Quantity: 1

• Audio Output Mode: Surround Sound

• Surround Sound Effects: Advanced Virtual Surround Sound (V.S.S.)

• DVD Type: DVD player

• Built in Decoder: Dolby Pro Logic II, Dolby Digital, DTS decoder

• Search Speed: Up to 200x

• DVD Media Loading: Tray

• HDCD Decoding: Y

• Width: 16.9 inches

• Depth: 9.8 inches

• Height: 2.3 inches

• Weight: 5.5 pounds

• Warranty: 1 year warranty

Conclusion

Most people think of their DVD player simply as a movie machine. This Panasonic DVD-S97S DVD player not only plays prerecorded DVDs and DVD-R2/DVD-RAM discs, but also plays CD, CDR and CDRW - including CDR and CDRW with recorded MP3 and WMA files. HDMI offers a new high-performance digital standard for outstanding video and sound.

It's also more convenient. HDMI carries high-quality digital video and audio over the same thin cable, allowing you to run one cable from your DVD player to an HDMI-compatible TV or home theater receiver.

Best DVD Recorder Reviews Rating

9/10

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