At Cautionista, we don't jump in that quickly. We did more research and found that many users of this Blu-ray player had not-so-good experiences with it. Some of their gripes were -
- Netflix stopped working after a firmware upgrade.
- Unable to connect to internet after a firmware upgrade.
- Audio-Video out of sync when streaming from Netflix or Hulu+.
- Player freezes when attempting to connect to the internet, and to Netflix.
- The range of Wi-Fi is limited, doesn't work reliably if the Blu-ray player is placed in a different room than the wireless router.
- Loses Wi-Fi connection after sometime, need to unplug and plug back in to reconnect.
- DLNA Media Server needs to be Windows7, player doesn't work with servers running on earlier versions of Windows.
- Doesn't reliably play Mpeg-2 video files.
- Need to reconfigure the wireless router each time to get the player to connect to Wi-Fi.
- Firmware update doesn't work over the internet, need an SD card to be sent from Panasonic.
To Buy or Not to Buy ?
As you can see, most of the issues with the Panasonic DMP-BDT220 player are related to Wi-Fi or Streaming. This player is still a good Blu-ray player at a great price. If you are mostly into watching Netflix, Hulu+ and Amazon videos, we would recommend one of the Roku players -