Well worth it!
This is the best system. The video and audio are totally above my expectations. It's worth the investment.

Some Features Dont Work (Well)
First Off let me say this receiver has fantastic sound quality and video quality when watching Blu-Ray - simply fantastic. I matched mine with a Panasonic Viera Plasma and they are amazing - but only for Blu-Ray. For other features - SD Movies always show up in a black box I have to manually adjust the aspect ratio on my TV not sure why. The network capability is lacking - there is a coming soon box on one side of the interface that I'm guessing will never come - I was hoping for Netflix out of this guy eventually. It has youtube access which is great for inappropriate video clips - beware. Slow interface and cumbersome search capability. Finally the Amazon HD or SD streaming I was able to watch one movie without a glitch a few months ago. Now I can never watch an Amazon delivered movie. Amazon just refunds my purchase when I say I have a problem. The odd thing is it will play for 5-10 even 20 minutes in full HD. Then it will stop - completely! Which really is a big frustration when you have 3 kids looking at you wanting you to fix it. The solution I found was to actually purchase the movie, downloading it to my Media center PC works fine. But this unit even with the latest firmware is nooooo good at this which is disappointing and one of the features I hoped to enjoy - the concept is great. Other frustrations - I have a Harmony remote and Viera link and the remote conflict with one other. One bad feature is that there is no direct way of telling the unit which audio input to use - I have multiple optical inputs. So I reversed it and had the Viera link take care of the input switching and that works fine except when switching to DVD it never goes to the DVD input until you insert a DVD... I think the lacking part is on the remote capabilities of the BT300. This unit also does not have any HDMI inputs - one problem you WILL run into is that your TV will be doing all the switching, processing all the audio and sending down to this unit (unless you watch a BluRay). I have seen that the Panasonic Viera TV is introducing an audio delay. Its not consistent. When you first fire up both units in the morning they are in sync. After about 2-3 hours the audio starts going out of sync. After several hours you cant stand it anymore - its gotta be around 500ms. Only solution is to reboot the BT300 which leads me to my final point. The BT300 takes SOOOO LONG to startup - it take around 45 seconds for the unit to power on. And since this is the primary audio for my TV... you wait and wait. Then you hope that the input was left on the correct optical input, if it wasnt then you have to switch inputs manually or by switching the tv input back and forth (sat to media ctr then back to sat) so the unit can pick up the correct input. For me - this unit is going up to my bedroom now. I will be purchasing a real audio reciever that hopefully doesnt take 45sec to turn on. All my components will go to this new receiver instead of the TV and they should take care of all the annoying issues of this unit. Ohh yes I have another Panasonic BluRay player that will be coming down to replace this unit.

Makes movies so much better
Excellent sound quality and was easy to setup. We've really enjoyed this system and the blue ray is great. Have to be patient starting it as it's delayed but I read that ahead of time. If you take the time to read everything about operating the blue ray then I'm sure you won't have a problem, but it's not set up the smoothest. A little frustrating in the beginning until we figured it out, but not a big deal. Got a great price so I would definitely buy it again for the quality and value.

Great Sound System
I love this sound system. My only complaint is that there is no eject button on the remote. You have to walk over to the unit and click eject on the unit, then wait for it to eject. It would save a little time to just put an eject button on the remote.

Great product at an even better price.
Received the sound system quickly. Installation and set-up was easy using the instructions. System auto-balanced the speakers using the included microphone. Everything worked as advertised. Video quality on Blu-Ray is amazing and loading is quite fast. Audio from Blu-Ray and regular DVD will rattle the walls if you desire. TV audio through Optical Digital Input is also very good. I can't think of a thing about the system I would change. Due to some previous reviews, I had some reservations about the length of the rear speaker wires. Panasonic customer service said I could use different wires if they were of the same gauge but they didn't recommend soldering an extension into the existing wires. The pins in the attached connectors can be easily removed and re-used but they are small and I didn't feel comfortable trying to attach them to my existing wires....sooooo...since they didn't say I shouldn't/couldn't solder the wires, I cut a suitable length with the connectors from the provided wires and soldered them to my existing wires. Heat shrink tubing sealed the splices and everything works great. If you want a great system with lots of features at a very good price, buy this one.