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Ruined · 12-15-2007, 05:59 AM

I know my old Panasonic RP65 was hailed for its lack of the chroma bug. Stinks that it seeped into the BD models.

Re: your firmware question, the Toshiba HD DVD standalones also had the chroma bug on release with MPEG2 material, but after a year or so Toshiba released a firmware upgrade that eliminated the chroma bug on all of their HD DVD standalones (firmware 2.3 for gen1, firmware 2.0 for gen2). So I assume the same could be done with the Panasonic, but who knows if Panasonic will actually put the resources into making such an upgrade.

The best standard DVD players you can find are the Toshiba HD-XA2 / Onkyo DV-HD805 (both HD DVD players). They are both free of the chroma bug and employ the killer Reon video processor for scaling & perfect deinterlacing. Can't do much better than that. Unfortunately that doesn't help your DVD-RAM problem, though.

12-15-2007, 05:59 AM	#2 (permalink)
Ruined It's Good to Play Together Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: NJ, USA	I know my old Panasonic RP65 was hailed for its lack of the chroma bug. Stinks that it seeped into the BD models. Re: your firmware question, the Toshiba HD DVD standalones also had the chroma bug on release with MPEG2 material, but after a year or so Toshiba released a firmware upgrade that eliminated the chroma bug on all of their HD DVD standalones (firmware 2.3 for gen1, firmware 2.0 for gen2). So I assume the same could be done with the Panasonic, but who knows if Panasonic will actually put the resources into making such an upgrade. The best standard DVD players you can find are the Toshiba HD-XA2 / Onkyo DV-HD805 (both HD DVD players). They are both free of the chroma bug and employ the killer Reon video processor for scaling & perfect deinterlacing. Can't do much better than that. Unfortunately that doesn't help your DVD-RAM problem, though. __________________ For every shadow, no matter how deep, is threatened by morning light.