Panasonic DVD-S55S Digital Remastering Progressive-Scan DVD , Silver
Panasonic could learn a few things from other manufacturers
Panasonic could learn a few things from other manufacturers. Back when most standard DVD players were averaging [money], I bought a [money] G.E. unit. Everyone told me I was nuts, and I would be sorry. I have never had trouble with it in 3 years, and it carries some standard features, that I thought, were standard on all DVD players, but Panasonic has convinced me otherwise.<br />1. If I was too tired to watch a movie until the end, I would stop the movie, and shutdown the unit. When I was ready to resume, I would turn the power on, and it would start EXACTLY where I left off. Panasonic DOES NOT do that. Even if you just hit stop, and  leave the power on, it makes you start from the beginning, searching & searching until you finally figure out where you left off.<br />2. When I paused a movie on the G. E. unit, after 5 mins, the unit would go into a screen saver type mode, and it would go to the unit's main logo. That logo would would fade in & out, as to not burn any images onto the screen. By simply pressing \\"Play\\" it began where you left off. If in screen saver mode too long the unit would even power itself down, but simply powering back up at anytime, it resumes playback at the precise point where you left off. The Panasonic unit DOES NOT have this feature, it stays paued as long as you leave it that way, leaving you with possible screen burn.<br />The 1st feature mentioned above is very important, and I think when you're supposedly upgrading to a finer unit like Panasonic, that a simple feature like that would be standard, but I was wrong. <br />I WILL NEVER buy another Panasonic DVD player again, based on the fact that when I called them about this, they really didn't seem to care what I liked or did not like. All they did was note my account of my complaint. They also told me that they never heard of those features on ANY DVD player on the market! If that's true, the Panasonic R & D department needs to leave their offices more than once every 10 years, and maybe ask a question or 2 from users of other units. They might even go one step further, and actually use another unit to maybe see what it can do. In a word \\"PANASONIC [STINKS]\\" Beware!!