Panasonic DMP-MST60 Smart Network Media Streaming Player with Built-In Wi-Fi

• Built in Wi-Fi for streaming
• VOD from Netflix CinemaNow VUDU Hulu+ and YouTube
• Miracast Display Mirroring
• Web browser
• DLNA certified

And then I have to pay for the shipping back to get it serviced. What kind of a company makes you pay for shipping back THEIR defective product? Panasonic, that's who. I bought it to get Amazon Prime videos and to let my son use a bluray that I was using for Netflix to use on another TV. Anything that conks out in 1 month is basically a piece of junk IMHO.

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I was really looking forward to seeing what this could do. I bought mine directly from ABT since they are here in the Chicago market.

This one is one of the few players out there that can stream from Amazon. That was really one of the big features I was looking for. It does have many of the popular web features such as Pandora, Netflix and a wide selection of others that you can add by connecting to their "app store"

So a bit about my experience with media players. For about 5 years I have been ripping movies to my Windows Home Server. I'm now on my third server running WHS2011. I've got about 700 blurays and dvd's sitting on 24tb worth of hard drives.

For the most part I keep everything in MKV format. It has good compression and can hold anything from old dvd movies to High Definition Bluray video with multiple audio tracks.

For the last 5 years I have been using the WD line of media players my favorite is the WD TV live+ from a few years ago. The TVlive+ work VERY well for connecting to my network shared folders and I really like how I can choose whether to display the DVD cover or just list folder names.

The Panasonic unit is much sleeker than the WD ones. Its about half as tall but does lack composite outputs. Personally I use both HDMI and composite connections as due to copyright laws signals from HDMI can't be down converted by video processors or Video receivers. So in other words in order to send video signals from our main system throughout the house I still need the non digital composite connections.

Performance. I think this is the killer of this product. Now days with phones having dual core processors and tablets having even quad core processors the speed of which this device goes from page to page it VERY disappointing. When compared to the WD players it seems just plain sluggish.

The last and overall killer for this product is difficulty in connecting to my windows shares. The player has a place to map your network drives and I have been able to map 1 but when I try to map a second drive it fails to connect and then gets frustrating. Frustrating? yes, when you go to map the second drive it changes what you have inputed into the settings for the previous drive.

For example I enter this

drive name, DVD Movies

location 192.168.1.189

login name, john

login password 1234

and then after it tells you that it can't connect it moves everything around so suddenly it will show the location as your name and your name as your password. Its really jacked up!

So what I ended up with?

1. I can stream Amazon = Thunbs up!

2. I can stream netflix = no big deal I have a tivo and a WD tvlive that can do that connected to the same system. 9and BOTH are quicker at connecting)

3. I can stream Pandora = thumbs DOWN, why? well no composite outputs so I can't pump music throughout the house because receivers won't distribute digital (hdmi) signals into zone 2 or zone 3.

4. Network shares = Can't map the 6 drives so WORTHLESS!

So overall? STAY AWAY! There are so many new media players out there. And there is some REALLY cool stuff coming out soon such as the Archos TV connect. I just don't understand why Panasonic slaughtered this one. Its just inconceivable that with so many players now using the ridiculously fast Realtek 1185 or 1186 chipsets and some now featuring the just released 1186DD chipset which is now available on about 5 models that they would put such a severely underpowered processor on their new line of product.

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To be clear. This isn't a very good product. Its advertised as both a local and cloud based streamer, but it really doesn't do either very well. The player uses that familiar onscreen interface found on Panasonic Bluray players. The cloud based services use the Panasonic Viera connect service. Its slow and clunky, and every time you visit the online store to install more apps, you get an annoying video advertisement. Its enough to thrown the player out the window. The Panasonic Amazon VOD app is terrible, with no support for watch-lists or Dolby Digital 5.1. Its slow to load the movie too and on several occasions it said I didn't have enough bandwidth to stream the movie despite the player being hardwired and a 1GB internet connection.

The player supports most of the popular streaming apps like Netflix, VUDU, HULU+ and Amazon ... but nearly every other player does so too ... so you might be better off with a ROKU, if you are looking for cloud based streaming.

Local media playback is equally as miserable. I tested with a DLNA server rather than SAMBA shares. The onscreen display slowly shows you your folder contents. The player supports a very limited range of video and audio codecs. The player does not playback DTS-MA or TrueHD HD audio. It also won't play MPEG2 or VC-1 MKVs, M2TS or VOBS either. Its very very limited.

So what does it do well ? I really don't know. Perhaps you will have better luck with it than me, but I can't recommend this player. Its slow, clunky and doesn't do anything very well. I would personally look elsewhere.

One last thing. Judging from the pictures you might think you are at least getting a nice looking player? But you may be in for a surprise. The "aluminum" top surface is just a sticker !!

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The above review is well written and I cannot dispute the issues the person reviewing the product has had. When changing menus it is slightly slower than I expected, the processor overall should have been better on such a new product, however it does do exactly what I was hoping in that I can watch my content from my one network share and I can watch amazon instant video and netflix and many other things I have not explored yet. I can do all of this over wireless at HD resolution and have really not had any issues l, and it is providing this for under $100 for me so I am quite happy with it.

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I think it has potential but Panasonic needs to do a lot of development. They may be working on it as there has been several firmware updates recently.

The processor is ten years behind what is normal today, it does everything painfully slow.

The feature I was most interested in is the web browser but it is almost unusable for anything and will not play things that require flash a very common system for video and live broadcast.

I have a three year old DVD player with Netflix etc. built in that works much better and it cost about the same and will play DVD's. The attraction of the Panasonic DMP-MST60 that prompted me to purchase it is the web browser but so far trying to use it has been frustrating and essentially useless.

This purchase has very much lowered my respect for Panasonic. This product makes me think a name with a great history of good products is being poorly managed.

I do not recommend purchasing now. Maybe Panasonic will make improvements that will make it acceptable but I do not think it is for now.