Got it hooked up, will give some impressions later after I can spend some time with it.
The 790 thread at AVS has become a freaking joke, I swear some of those people can't back up any of their comments, and then you have the die hards on the other side that are just bad. Form factor is about the same size as my BDT-210. Im going to knock down some streaming while Im on vacation, but hope to watch War Horse and Contraband this weekend. It might be a tad high for some at $250, but it's got all the bells and whistles, exceptional PQ so far and excellent streaming support. My Panny's never worked well with my HSI router, so Amazon and Netflix were iffy. This 790 plays well with my home network and has great Amazon and Nflix interfaces, so Ill be retiring the Roku 2 to the bedroom now and handling it all from the 790.
- Menus as pretty complex, takes some time to get it all set correctly.
- Im using Direct mode, which I hope if like a Source Direct setup and isn't doing any molesting of the image color
- I set it up with two HDMI cables and have one for audio to the AVR and one for video to the Panasonic. You can set it up where it say it segregates the audio on one and the video on the other, but Im not sure it's that advanced, or if that reduces interference or improves anything.
- Amazon and Netflix setup were real easy, and both interfaces are the nicest Ive seen on a Blu player so far. I like that I can tell my speed and PQ Im getting from each service, and I tried changing the settings around for Sony's engine that decreases streaming PQ noise; I saw no changes bad or good. Also nice to get the 5.1 DD+ stream on Nflix.
- I watched the last 45 minutes of Bayformers 1, because I like to do my initial eval's with it since Ive seen it so many times. Set player to Direct, Super Bitmapping ON, 1080p/24 out, ycbcr 444 and 16 bit color, and I thought it looked phenomenal. Watched Top Gear on AmazonHD and it looked great as well.
- Player also seems real fast, I cant say speed appears to be a problem.
- Menu reminds me of the PS3, so I guess all the Sony stuff has that XMB now
The 790 thread at AVS has become a freaking joke, I swear some of those people can't back up any of their comments, and then you have the die hards on the other side that are just bad. Form factor is about the same size as my BDT-210. Im going to knock down some streaming while Im on vacation, but hope to watch War Horse and Contraband this weekend. It might be a tad high for some at $250, but it's got all the bells and whistles, exceptional PQ so far and excellent streaming support. My Panny's never worked well with my HSI router, so Amazon and Netflix were iffy. This 790 plays well with my home network and has great Amazon and Nflix interfaces, so Ill be retiring the Roku 2 to the bedroom now and handling it all from the 790.