Panasonic DVD-RP82 DVD Player

Pros: Faroudja chip exclusivity! Excellent picture performance and sound quality!
Cons: MP3 playback may cause the machine to hang. Layer change is average.

Well, I have been using this DVD-A player for years now. Originally, I had considered purchasing the higher priced Denon 1600 Progressive Scan Player but for the price, I just couldn't justify spending hundreds more for a similar player using the very ...

Pros: The best picture quality on the market, features, price, DVD-Audio and Progressive Scan
Cons: Remote could be better, but for this price and with great performance who can complain?

The Panasonic DVD-RP82 is a stylish DVD player with DVD-Audio playback, progressive scan and a price tag of less than $230! It also plays CD-R and CD-RW discs, discs with MP3 and WMA audio and has zoom function that allows you eliminate black horizontal ...

Pros: S/F chipset, EXCELLENT Picture quality, functional menu, appearance
Cons: Kind of complicated unless you read and re-read manual, remote requires some getting used to

I have researched progressive scan technology extensively before buying in. The first question that alot of people are asking: Does the RP-82 have the sage/faroudja chip-set and is it plagued with the chroma bug?. The answer is yes, it has the King...

Pros: Bass Management +
Cons: Layer Changes are not the smoothest

Every review I have read on this player has forgotten to mention that it incorporates bass management. This is very important if you are using the multi-channel analog outputs and have smallish speakers. You can set them to small and everything below 100...

Pros: Compact, easy-to-use, excellent interlaced video quality, no "chroma upsampling" bug, media support, reasonable price
Cons: Not available in black finish, remote does not have joystick

Let me first start by saying that I do not have an HDTV, so I have not been able to examine its progressive image quality.

But while shopping for a replacement to my aging JVC DVD player (purchased Summer 2000), I decided I wanted to get...

Pros: Small, nice picture, nice sound, affordable; I like playing with the zoom feature.
Cons: Does not escape the dreaded layer change/pause.

Last September, my DVD player decided to stop working, so I had no choice but to get a new one. After some research, I decided that I'd get the RP-82. That has to be the single best decision I've made in my life.

This little guy has not failed...

Pros: Great picture, good sound, good connectability
Cons: Shiny silver casing sure is UGLY! The remote is atrocious.

This DVD player puts out a terrific progressive scan picture. Mine projects on a 100" screen, and the picture is very crisp, sharp, and the colors are very vivid. Much better than the Sony DVD player it replaces. The silver exterior is ugly, but at...

Pros: Faroudja chip
Cons: none

We were in a regular big box electronic store, their going out of business sale, final day, and we needed a new dvd player. looking over the racks, nothing good was left. My wife pointed up, and said what is that?? Hidden behind another was a lone ...

Pros: Excellent video quality, small and elegant design, rich set of features
Cons: Cheap looking remote, slow layer change during DVD playback

Last spring (2002), I was interested in getting a new progressive scan DVD player to use with my HDTV capable projection TV. Based on detailed reviews on several internet sites, Panasonic's RP56 seemed to have one of the best progressive scan conversion...

Pros: Faroudja DCDi, Progressive scan, DVD-A
Cons: No real zoom modes

I purchase the RP82 to upgrade from my older Hitachi DVD based on reviews on the net.

TO SUM UP:
On a 34" HDTV 16:9 Progressive scan TV...
Looked great , but so did my old Hitachi DVD ???
Had to CLOSLEY A/B it to see...

Pros: look, slim, progressive scan, video quality, Faroudja DCDi, digital audio quality, built quality, remaster(unsampling) option
Cons: no SACD_support, fingerprints on mirror_face, analog_audio quality, practical_but_ugly remote, mp3_playback quality, noisy when reading_chapters

I was much attracted by its appearance when I first saw it, so did my girlfriend. My cabinet is also near out of space, if I buy this player, it can be stacked on the top of my panasonic VCR.

I bought it just three days ago on last Sunday. I...

Pros: DVD-RAM playback, VCD, SVCD work too
Cons: No Dolby Digital/DTS support for DVD Audio discs

I've only had this player a few days now, and it really is a good player. It plays my SVCD home videos (although the manual claims that SVCD is not supported). The on screen display even recognizes the discs at SVCD and plays them fine. I have not...

This is a great DVD player for the price. Panasonic has brough the options of the $400 players and brought it to this $200 2002 model. The picture is awesome on my 34" Phillips HDTV it looks alomost real in a 480P picture. It is so clear and the sound out is increadible. I saw Matrix for the 50th time but it seemed like the first with the improved picture quality on HDTV.

what can i say excellent product incredible picture and sound look great on my samsung hdtv higly recomended

Pros: Good picture quality, disk compatibility, 5.1 audio out
Cons: Died after only 2 years of light to medium use

I bought this to replace a Sony DVD player that died while under extended warranty and had to be replaced. I was looking for a DVD player that had 5.1 Surround Sound out since my receiver was Surround "ready" and couldn't do the decoding on its own. I really didn't have any problems with the picture quality and overall performance of the player. The warranty is not very good: 1 year for parts, but only 90 days for labor. If you've ever taken something in you will realize that that means they can charge you whatever they want for the repair and call it "labor" even if the unit is dead.

The player did well from the time I bought it in September 2002 until today when I got an ERROR H02 and it stopped playing any kind of disk entirely. Apparently H02 means go buy a new DVD player. While the unit is out of warranty and out of extended warranty now, I don't think a little over 2 years is acceptable. After some research on the internet it seems a lot of people have been victims of the same error.