Buy Panasonic SC-BT730 Blu-ray DiscTM 5.1 Home Theater System

July 15, 2010 Sclark 5 comments

Panasonic SC-BT730 Blu-ray DiscTM 5.1 Home Theater System

Receiver has BD – DVD – CD player and FM Tuner
Connections – HDMI Out – 1; Video Out – 1; Digital Input – 2 (optical); Audio Input – 1 AUX (Stereo Mini Jack, 3.5mm)
Speaker System – Front Configuration – 2-way 3-speaker, Bass-reflex Woofer – 1-3/8 x 4 Cone Type x2 Tweeter
Pure Direct Sound Speaker – Yes (front, center)
Advanced Bamboo Cone – Yes (front, center) Approximate Dimensions

The rear speakers come wireless right out of the box (no additional purchase necessary). The Blu-ray player is wireless ready, and compatible with the wireless LAN adapter DY-WL10 (sold separately).

Rating: (out of 15 reviews)

List Price: $ 599.95

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Written by Michael Nehrkorn about 2 years ago.

Review by Michael Nehrkorn for Panasonic SC-BT730 Blu-ray DiscTM 5.1 Home Theater System
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I bought this system to go with my Panasonic Viera 50″ plasma. The system was very easy to setup, works great, and when new updates are released it automatically notifies you that a newer release is available. Then you just select the update option and leave it alone. Common sense should tell you not to turn it off or mess with anything while it is upgrading. The Viera-Cast with built in Pandora, Netflix, and YouTube is sweet! I am very happy with this purchase.
Written by Philipp W. Kunz about 2 years ago.

Review by Philipp W. Kunz for Panasonic SC-BT730 Blu-ray DiscTM 5.1 Home Theater System
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sound and video are fine. A little difficult to set up. Annoying part is having to purchase a proprietary wireless lan for the internet. When somethig is advertised as “wireless internet ready” and then demands an optional, nearly $100. part it leaves a bad taste for the brand.
Written by Lakshminarayanan Alagarsamy about 2 years ago.

Review by Lakshminarayanan Alagarsamy for Panasonic SC-BT730 Blu-ray DiscTM 5.1 Home Theater System
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This is my first blu-ray all in one home theater system. Before this i have used to Denon 2310 with Mirage Nanostat speakers.

Since wanted to buy a blu-ray and a simple wireless (primary factor for me) home theater system i went with this after reading very few review at that time.

You be the judge before you buy it after reading this review.

The things i liked:

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#1 – Wireless speaker.

Being staying at a rental house and changing my residence every year had forced me to look for wireless and it was right out of the box in this one.

#2 – Good customer support

After i hooked up all teh speakers, i did not get any sound from my wireless unit. Called the customer service. The great thing was, he knew what i was asking about and he helped me to trouble shoot and finally fixed the problem. Looks like there is a sequence to boot up the blu-ray player and wireless which i did not follow. That was easy.

#3 – You tube

Work liked a charm. No buffering issues. It was real good. (Not sure whether i can connect a keyboard in anyway to make the typing faster….any ideas????)

#4 – iPod dock

Another primary deciding factor for me.

#5 – ARC

Works well with my TV (Sharp 46LE810UN). As soon as i turn on the home theater, audio shuts off in the TV and comes from home theater (Though i like my TV audio much better when watching talk shows)

#6 – All in one remote

The things i did not like:

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#1 – Wires all over:

There are no video pass through. Though i knew this earlier i thought it would be okay. But, this made me to run wires btn many systems. From cable box to TV, then from TV Audio out to Home theater. Wii is connected directly to the TV. iPod video cables to TV.

#2 – Lip sync issue with iPod (video)

If you play iPod video, you will NOT get the output in HDMI cable. You will have to use separate video cable for that. Another set of wires.

So, i connected the iPod through composite video and now what? The audio and video is out of sync (lip sync) issue.

#3 – Not enough power output:

I seriously doubt whether this is a 1000W system. The mirage nanastat is around 600w and it sounds way better than what Panasonic. Again, i do not want to compare apples with oranges. Cost may be the deciding factor in this case ($1,200 vs $500)

#4 Poor FM:

Very weak FM output. You will have to find a good spot to keep the FM antenna (just a wire) in order to get a very normal reception. I covered every sq. inch to get a good audio signal but i never got good reception.

#5 Simulated sound not from all speakers:

It is mentioned that we will get simulated sound when 2 channel audio inputs is given. But, for some reason my center speaker (which i consider as critical) did not get any sound at all. That was a strange one.

#6 Wireless speakers

Again, the quality of the sound is good. But, definitly not enough if you have a bigger room.

#7 Proprietary speaker wire

If you have already wired your house, you will have to think again before you buy this. This unit uses proprietary speaker wire and connections. Though the length of the wires are enough for my home with currect setup, this is a serious restriction if i want to use it at bigger houses.

Other nice to haves:

#1 – Blutooth receiver – If there is a option to sync any blu tooth device with receiver, it would have been nice.

#2 – Shutting off wireless speaker using remote – I am really not sure whether this is a missing option or i did not explore it yet. I am 99% positive that we cannot shut off the wireless unit with remote. Which mean, if you really conscious about wasting power, you need to add this into your check list before you go to bed.

Other concerns:

If for some reason the wireless unit is not working (one day it is going to happen), then you have no way to use the rear speakers with wires directly running to the home theater.
Written by J. Dailey about 2 years ago.

Review by J. Dailey for Panasonic SC-BT730 Blu-ray DiscTM 5.1 Home Theater System
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Panasonic SC-BT730 Blu-ray DiscTM 5.1 Home Theater System

Set-up was easy & straight forward.

The speakers sounded great, I literally heard things on recordings that I hadn’t heard before… Then I started hearing things I didn’t want to hear… 1st with barely audible interference come from the rear wireless speaker to LOAD “cracking & popping”!!! Finally they had to be shut off.

The deal breaker was the controls or lack of controls on the receiver itself. The receiver has an on/off button, a volume control (that does not work or control the volume of the iPod at all, not sure “what” it controls…) & a button to open/close the tray for the DVD/CD. That’s it PERIOD. Every thing & I do mean EVERYTHING has to be controlled from the home theater’s remote WITH the TV turned “on” to see what the hell your doing/controlling. Since the receiver takes control of the iPod thus disabling the iPod’s controls, all access to music on the iPod is handled by the remote control & viewed on the TV, and the interface is SLOW. For example with a 146 Artists coming up in alphabetical order accessing an artist starting with the letter “T” is going to take you a LONG time!!! Forget about accessing the song “Yesterday” by the Beatles in a 13,000 song library ’cause yesterday will be a distant memory, more like next month before you would get to a song starting with the letter “Y”. And you can NOT play music and surf the web at the same time. It is one function at a time period. Once you change the input source to the TV it disconnects the receiver & turns off the music. Let’s say you are finally playing music but by the time you have come to the end of the album or play list the TV has “timed out” ’cause of the energy saving function, so you have to restart the TV to do/see anything with the receiver/iPod connection to make a different music selection.

I wanted this “top of the line” Panasonic home theater unit to be fully integrated with my Panasonic plasma tv & to use only one remote to work with both units… After trying this for a week I really don’t see how it will fully function with either the 2010 model Panasonic tv’s remote or the 2010 Panasonic home theater’s remote.

The other thing that is limiting on the receiver is the lack of connections; 1 HDMI connection is NOT enough!!!

I really tried to live with the limitations in this “top of the line 2010″ system, but it was more like a trying to bring a do a series of work arounds with a 1970′s boom box. Very disappointing I really wanted this to work.
Written by R. Balmes about 2 years ago.

Review by R. Balmes for Panasonic SC-BT730 Blu-ray DiscTM 5.1 Home Theater System
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The main reason I bought this system is for the wireless surround speakers which I never was able to use in my bedroom due to difficulties in wired rear speakers. Easy to setup and wireless speakers worked perfectly! Sounds great but not as loud as my older Panasonic system even though they are both rated 1000w. The blu-ray player worked great, playing recently released Avatar w/o having to do firmware upgrade. The 1080 upconvert isn’t as nice as my PS3 but not too bad either. I like the fact the the front speakers can be mounted on the wall which looks better to me than having them on a stand taking up unnecessary space. Wish it had AM since my favorite sports station is on AM but I can do w/o. Glad I went wit this model.