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03-11-2011, 21:12
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Buying a Blu-ray Player
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
 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  Thanks in advance for any advice
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03-11-2011, 21:54
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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.
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Wait until black friday on amazon, and pounce
 I'm sure they'll have something decent going at a frankly superb price
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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!
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04-11-2011, 18:03
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Well that's made this thread redundant then
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 Quite happy with that as I wanted X-Men anyway and Bridesmaids can be a Christmas present for my Mum
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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" (
) but the other one likes to buy (she's a hoarder!) and rent her films, and wan't to enjoy BD quality...
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04-11-2011, 18:30
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It's the Samsung BD-D5100: http://www.blockbuster.co.uk/product...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 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?
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Ooo even does MKV....colour me tempted...
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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.
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