Panasonic’s DVD-RV31K DVD-video player delivers a combination of quality video and special features usually found only in more expensive players, if at all. Among many other features, the DVD-RV31K offers MP3 playback, robust connectivity, and an advanced version of Panasonic’s simulated surround sound with proprietary Bass Plus technology and a dedicated subwoofer output. This unit’s state-of-the-art component-video outputs allow for digital video transmission to compatible video equipment. It also offers standard composite-video outputs and an S-video output. A built-in 27 MHz/10-bit digital-to-analog video converter maximizes picture quality from these outputs, while brightness, color, and contrast controls let you fine-tune picture quality. A digital-cinema mode illuminates the picture and fine-tunes color, even in low-light scenes. Additional video features include one-touch cinema memory, freeze frame, frame advance, and black-level controls. An optical digital-audio output channels a bit stream for DTS and Dolby Digital surround sound, fostering glorious home theater sound when decoded with an appropriate surround receiver. Advanced Virtual Surround Sound simulates a surround effect using only your two front speakers. Furthermore, the DVD-RV31K’s dialogue enhancer pumps up the center-channel output to emphasize a movie’s spoken audio. A 96 kHz/24-bit digital-to-analog audio converter and dynamic-range compression (for late-night viewing) complete the DVD-RV31K’s robust audio arsenal. If you’re not quite ready for 5.1-channel audio but already have a powered subwoofer, you’ll appreciate the versatility of this player’s discrete subwoofer output. The DVD-RV31K’s pair of analog-audio stereo outputs along with its subwoofer output simulate theatrical sound by setting up a two-channel-plus-bass output that sends all low-frequency information to your subwoofer. A built-in stabilizer and twin-laser pickup offers improved play (more…)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great player, still using it
Browsing my Amazon orders history I came across this item. I had forgotten we’d bought this from amazon.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Highly recommended
I’ve owned this item for several years and have no complaints. Works great! Panasonic remains a highly reputable brand for electronics!!
5.0 out of 5 stars
I LOVE IT
My Panasonic RV31K is five years old this month and after thousands of hours playing movies it works just as well today as when I first took it out of the box.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Reminds me of a quarter horse race
Great performance but only for a short time. Don’t get me wrong, I loved this dvd player (when it worked).
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good DVD Player
This is a great DVD player! Great sound and picture quality although I can not get it to play DVD+R movies. If any one can help with this problem let me know..
1.0 out of 5 stars
doesn’t play
yeah same here, I got an H02 error and it doesn’t play anymore, what a piece of crap.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good while it lasted…
After 4 years of use, I did get the error H02 and H05 this past weekend. After extensive research online and this Amazon web page, it is the motor.
3.0 out of 5 stars
More on the Dreaded H02 Error
The suggestion of restarting the player by gently pushing the disk clockwise worked fine. It seems, however, that the problem is not a defective motor but a bad case design.
4.0 out of 5 stars
The H02 problem
After google searching this, I finally found a way to fix the so-called “deadly” H02 problem. A thanks to “miguel_cerca” who posted this message on videohelp.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Consumer reports gives Panisonic repair excellent NOT THIS 1
Used 2 years by parents that used DVD twice a month.
H02 error
H05 error
called repair said motor and laser errors
although I have taken apart laser at…