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As Christmas is coming up, I thought I'd buy a Blu-ray player for the living room. For one thing, it'll mean the PS3 can stay in one room rather than keep moving around the house :D
I see on Amazon there are a few about at the moment for £65-70 which seems like a decent price to me.
Is there anything in particular I need to know about them? I only want a bog standard one really. Don't need 3D or anything fancier than an HDMI port on the back. But then again I don't want it being ridiculously slow or dying on me within a month :p
Thanks in advance for any advice :D
If all you want is a basic player then pretty much any of them will do a similar job really.
Some of them come with extra features such as built-in iPlayer, web-browser or ability to play various media files from USB or external hard drives etc, which may or may not be of interest.
LeperousDust
03-11-2011, 22:45
Wait until black friday on amazon, and pounce :) I'm sure they'll have something decent going at a frankly superb price :)
TinkerBell
03-11-2011, 22:50
Wait until black friday on amazon, and pounce :) I'm sure they'll have something decent going at a frankly superb price :)
Oooo, just googled black Friday, I will be ready and waiting to pounce. Thanks :D
Wait until black friday on amazon, and pounce :) I'm sure they'll have something decent going at a frankly superb price :)
That's on the cards if I happen to be about at the right time :) Tried for a few things last year but it's very hit and miss!
Thanks for the advice Toby :) I'll keep an eye out for whatever's cheap then!
Well that's made this thread redundant then :p
Went into Blockbuster to chat with a friend there. They had a deal on for a Samsung Blu-ray player along with two new release titles from a set list. Throw in knowing the right people and I got it along with X-Men First Class and Bridesmaids for £80 :D
Quite happy with that as I wanted X-Men anyway and Bridesmaids can be a Christmas present for my Mum :)
LeperousDust
04-11-2011, 18:12
Which sammy is it? I'd be interested what you think of it, i don't really feel the need for a BD player myself because i play my high res stuff "digitally" (:p) but the other one likes to buy (she's a hoarder!) and rent her films, and wan't to enjoy BD quality...
It's the Samsung BD-D5100: http://www.blockbuster.co.uk/product/buy-online/home/console/273207/samsung-bd-d5100-blu-ray-player.htm :)
Can't say what it's like till Christmas though!
Seems it's got Internet Streaming which I didn't realise so that might be handy :D
The offer is usually £90 with two Blu-rays or £69.99 on its own. Can't remember all of them but it was Bad Teacher, The Green Lantern, Bridesmaids, X-Men First Class, Hangover 2, Fast & Furious, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Rio and some other stuff.
USB port in it so you could play the 'digital' stuff that way?
Psymonkee
04-11-2011, 20:58
Ooo even does MKV....colour me tempted...
Looks pretty good on the features front!
I only really paid attention to the price and the fact it took USB devices. Anything else was a bonus. By the sounds of things, it'll work quite well with the Samsung TV.
Hmm. That is tempting. Trouble being that I don't get time to watch what I have already. New job might improve that though (though I thought that last time too).
Wait until black friday on amazon, and pounce :) I'm sure they'll have something decent going at a frankly superb price :)
Oh man, I always forget about this, when is it?
Monday, November 21 to Friday, November 25. :)
Oh next week, get paid tomorrow, so doesn't fall to badly.
Although plane tickets to USA in the morning, so that's most of my money gone :D
Might be of interest to anyone after a Blu-ray player: http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/asda-debuts-pound-40-blu-ray-player/087408
LeperousDust
17-11-2011, 19:51
Hmmmm, is it really any good though? I've given up buying cheaper stuff, my cheaper ebuyer f&h TV works perfectly as a tv and has pretty decent features, but is also slow and buggy and just not really worth saving the amount it probably did... And it's repeated time and time again... I have no specific brand affiliation but i find the bigger brands do pump out some very decent stuff (and some rubbish no doubt). I've never been truly impressed by any cheap electronics though :(
I've just had to return our Sony S370 as the laser was goosed. (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0038M1UTW)
They've discontinued now so I need to find another.
What brand use the most reliable lasers? I also need iPlayer, LoveFilm etc. Any ideas?
Laser diodes, like any other kind, can fail. It's fairly rare, but far from unheard of. I've had lasers and LEDs go, both for no obvious reason.
They're all made by the cheapest bidder in China these days anyway, so there's unlikely to be much between any of them. What's driving them is, however, another matter.
I'd be inclined towards avoiding the Asda model. Aside from looking ugly, it's far too cheap.
Yeah I'll be getting about £100 from this refund so tempted to get the next best sony box, whatever replaced the old one. They're just spot on with the features & interface.
LeperousDust
24-11-2011, 09:04
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/panasonic-dmp-bd45-blu-ray-player-55-20-was-129-00-delivered-m-s-with-2-year-guarantee-1068915
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/panasonic-dmp-bd75-blu-ray-player-bestbuy-for-53-99-with-code-online-1063526
Tempted.....
Just a few words of caution:
DMP-BD45 - No BD live
DMP-BD75 - No upscaling
I reckon I'd probably want the DMP-BDT110, which has both of the above. If there's a deal on that, I'm interested. :)
Flibster
24-11-2011, 23:45
Pretty sure the BD75 does do upscaling. The BD35 *the model below the 75 at the time* certainly does.
LeperousDust
25-11-2011, 00:06
I don't carefor inbuilt upscaling anyway, if i was upscaling i'd be using an AV Amp to do so :)
I've been meaning to get a BD player for a while now and haven't got around to it. Pretty set on getting a Sony of some kind for around £100 as they seem to have the right balance of features and cost but there are so many models I can't keep up with which is best to get. Settling on the "higher number means better" mentality for now :p
Sony S570 on Amazon Black Friday in 50 minutes time, If it drops close enough to a ton I will probably pull the trigger on it.
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