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I got me my own christmas present a bit early this year but whatever. I couldnt wait anymore, so I got it, and I must say I just love it. He works perfectly fine together with my TV (a Panasonic TH-42PZ80EA Plasma TV) and together they make a lovly picture on my japanese documentation blurays. The picture looks so real, so colorful that u actually think u can just grab into the picture and touch the objects. Also he not only does great on playing back bluray but also do a wonderful job upscaling my dvds to 1080p. The dvd player I used so far (Panasonic DVD-S54, codefree) is nothing compared to this scaling capacitys, he is now in my bedroom so I can watch TV there (currently I just have an 17 inches screen there, so its ok). Also he features nice features like YouTube, News, and Picasa (more will come according to Panasonic), but that I consider as bonus. It wasnt a reason to buy the big one. Some might argue this one is more or less identical to his lil’ brother, the Panasonic DMP-BD60, and I got to say “Yes, that’s right!” here. BUT this one feature a better audio circut, giving him the ability to work with DTS-HD Master/High audio and decode it or send it to your reciever via HDMI (bitstream), which the small one can’t do. Also (well I dont depend on it) feature a complete 7.1 decoder, so u can directly hook up your amp, if it dont get along with HDMI. That was the reason, the more abilities in the audio sector, that made me buy the big brother and buy a lot more. A lot more u ask? Well, yes. In the regular stores the difference is around 100 bucks, but for me it was some more. The reason for that is that the choice of stores was limited by the fact that I wanted a codefree BD player, that dont care about BD region or DVD regions. Also I wanted a hardware mod, that can’t be killed by some software upgrade or make me depending on the modders will to hack the new update and the time it takes. I got me one with the so called ICOS modification, that gets sold by bluraymods.com. I didnt buy at theirs, but at a partner store of them as the model of choice was cheaper there, and also s&h was for free^^. But back to the ICOS mod, I can only say it’s working and it’s great. I already upgraded my player from FW 2.0 to 2.1 without having any problem. And its very easy to switch regions, just turn it into stand-by, press a key from 1-3 to set em to a region between A and C, then turn it back on and the region is set. Also nice is, that DVD goes automatic, so there he complete not care^^. Also good was that they (Panasonic) gave u a 1 GB SD card along for free, it’s required for BD Live stuff, as it acts as cache memory, so if u get my or the smaller model, make sure to insert it. It probably works also without but then it will I think take longer to load up. You may read on some pages that they player have big response times, but as for the wake-up time people forget that it have a 2nd modus of stand-by, where he goes up faster BUT also use more energy during stand-by. If u use the default mode (I must cause of my modification, but would use it anyway), it consume just 1 Watt compared to 6-7 Watt in the fast stand-by mode. So, those around 20 sec I have and I can get along with. Also later on he could may be slower but I also saw worse, the speed currently is acceptable and I think Panasonic may increase even more the reponse time in the future. Also I cant say I experience any problems with him so far, and I used around 40 discs in him. Its a damn fine high-quality model for a great price. For my in the regular stores u pay around 280 Eu, which is ok. If u say I’m ok with the small one, you’re at 199 Eu. I also liked that u can switch the IR code set, so that if u got multiple Panasonic Devices u dont control them all, like could happen when u dont have the possiblity to switch those. What I was noticing is that no HDMI cable is included, just a cinch one. Thats the only that makes a bit meeh, but well, most players regardless the maker have that. I just wonder, since if they make their player 10 bucks more and include one, I dont think anyone would rip off their heads. But all together definitly a great choice for people having a Panasonic TV and also for those who not. Also he plays back without whining back your AVCHD DVDs with subtitle and multiple audio (insiders know what I wanna get on^^). Funny thing was, that the store where I bought included some sweets. I liked that, helped to stay calm cause when I get a new toy I go all excited^^.

Without more words, here we have some pictures I took while I unpacked him and hooked him up:

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On one of the later pictures u also can see my lil’ setup. My TV, my BD player (below tv/in the middle), then we have there also a T-Home IPTV reciver (left), and my Xbox (right). On the left side, next to the stand of the tv is my Popcorn Hour A110, a great lil’ multimedia box that keeps the promise that it makes. It features easily beats a PS3 and many many of those other cheap multimedia boxes/hdds even from brand makers. If u still need one, I suggest it, through u should buy the follow up modell C200.

For those who wanna know more about my BD player, u can see here some info, and there is also the panasonic webpage on it.

Both videos are from PanasonicUK, so copyright and stuff goes to them.

Homepage of the DMP-BD80. I took the UK page as I have the euro model. And we have also the lil brother, the DMP-BD60.

If you get one of them too, I hope you will love it the same as me and enjoy it! And if you want your friend codefree, and be willing to spend a bit more for that, go for bluraymods.com.

-Death

This post is delicated to two of my friends and former fellow fansubbers. I want to congrat them on their engagement and wish them best on their further way in life. Shall happiness and wonderful times escort them around the harsch cliffs in this life. They also marry soonish. I not will name them here to keep their privacy, but those who got told will surly know which two i mean. Please not forget about me you two, and enjoy the things to come!

-Death

Since we spoke just about it in the channel over at Animepath (one of my fansub groups), I thought that I could throw in some impressions here. Just let me foreclose… it was a heaven for the maid fans. Here u have a few pictures:

Those 2 were great, i have tons of pics of em. They had really fun with their role, u can see that when u look up the pictures.

We also had a madio cosplay cafè there.

When one consider it was the first event and was created out of a “just for fun” idea it was a great con. It was great to see all the ppl again u normally just meet when u’re at those events and also I had the chance to snatch some stuff again ;). Got me a japanese limited edition box of Memories (which even included english subtitles) for a good price. Also like I stated earlier, great for me was the big amount of Madio cosplayers. I have a certain weakness for those, and I think my pictures in the gallery shows that. But also fun was their stage programm, which had some bands (not my taste but hell, they werent too bad), a real good comedian dude making fun of serveral anime (buddy, keep it at this level!!!) aswell as a quit funny cosplay competition and cosplayer auction (where u could bid on a cosplayer so he be at your side for some hours). The money they made was used to cover costs and all thats left after that got donated to social services. I hope they make another one next year, maybe with a bit better planning at some ends. I even think of attending it as a “helper” or staffer if u wanna say so. Another thing I think of is maybe making a small scale subtitle workshop to show the ppl how its done and give ‘em also an idea what amount of work and time is involved in fansubs. But thats future music, thats not realism yet, but if we turn it into realism i will surly cover it with foto or video footage ;). If u wanna now see more pictures, u can click on link in the right side bar, its filed under “Pages -> Galleries -> Dokomi 2009” or just click on the link here.

Yours, Death

PS: ah, forgot the link to the page of the DoKomi, here it is: http://www.dokomi.de/de/ and when u wonder what DoKomi stands for, its Doitsu Komiku Market.

Hi everyone out there, u probably think “this dude is a goner” or “this blog is dead”, but NO it isnt. In fact there was some real life which was taking my nerves and attention so I was unable to write. Anyhow I will go back to my usual self and write more again, since stuff keeps piling up otherwise ^^. We begin todays show with the great Lucky Star/The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi opening parody I found over at www.sankakucomplex.com (i just love their stuff).

Source: YouTube

You might notice that i use now a different player for the video. I like this one better as i can control its propertys way better then the one I used before, so I will use it from now on I think. Also i will switch from FLV (FlashVideo) to MP4 videos, so i can present u better quality video when I have a source that offers MP4. So i hope your internet connection is fast enough to keep up.

-Death

so now the blog is up2date once again. jeez these days work makes me sicks and keeps me from watching anime… i just dont feel like it, since i’m so angry about whats happening. they seems to think we’re a piece of shit that u can do anything to as u like but we’re the fuck not. ass holes… Anyways, i do some new entrys and put up more pics in the next hours, so expect stuff coming your ways, so u ppl at least can have some fun!

-Death

hi out there, i’m sorry that many of my videos are goners but youtube felt pissed again for some videos and killed off my account for hosting trailers. god understand them, anyway, i dont let this stop me and make me a new to continue to bring u more!

-Death

and here we are back. the damn server had some probs and so i had to move the blog. it was a bit tricky resulting in some lag as i didnt had time before now. Anyway, I’m back!

-Death

puh… yea finally a sign of me beeing alive. its a quite stressful time thats why i wrote less that last weeks… Anyway, now we’re updated to WP 2.5, and all the pluginstuff along. if u notice anything beeing not right dont hesitate to tell me, so i can fix it asap. But now enough word, lets add some new reviews!

-Death-chan