Ok I am officially pissed at Panasonic now . They announced sweet deal($137.50+1.99 s/h+Tax) on DMP-BD85K which I ordered on 11/25. For entire week after that, they kept promising every day that they will ship the Blu Ray in a day, but they didn't. Come Friday, they said they were back ordered, so it'll take 3 weeks to deliver. Yesterday, they called me and said they will deliver it on Jan 12th.
Long story short, now I got my projector and no blu Ray yet. I just don't want any Blu Ray, but want the one with 7.1 channel audio as I have a non-HDMI receiver and I do not want to use optical audio as I do not trust the capability of it.
So is there any Blu Ray out there around $150 (besides Samsung BD-C6500) that I can buy in lieu of Panny which has 71. channel audio?
I am still kinda leaning towards Panny since it gives me wirelss and SD card slot. There is no other Blu Ray player that gives me everything.
Sadly, I am going to have to wait or order it from Amazon (and pay $25 more). Call me stingy but I feel I shouldn't be paying more.