Medium priced Blu-Ray Player help please

[donfm]

I've been looking at Blu-Ray players until I'm blu in the face. Pun intended. The more reviews you read the more you realize they all have issues of one sort or another. One site says it's great and another says it's terrible. The ones I was looking at are the

Panasonic BDT-210
Sony BDP-S580
Samsung BD-C6500

Any help here or suggestions. I've heard good and bad things about them all in reviews. My needs are rather simple but I would like wifi and at least netflix ....probably will be used more for a player than an online unit. I'm open for any suggestions and present good deals on players. I'm mostly interested in picture quality, reliability and ease of use.

 

[frowertr]

I've been looking at Blu-Ray players until I'm blu in the face. Pun intended. The more reviews you read the more you realize they all have issues of one sort or another. One site says it's great and another says it's terrible. The ones I was looking at are the

Panasonic BDT-210
Sony BDP-S580
Samsung BD-C6500

Any help here or suggestions. I've heard good and bad things about them all in reviews. My needs are rather simple but I would like wifi and at least netflix ....probably will be used more for a player than an online unit. I'm open for any suggestions and present good deals on players. I'm mostly interested in picture quality, reliability and ease of use.

I know you said "Medium priced" but there is nothing better than a BDP-93 Oppo if you want the very best picture you can have: http://www.oppodigital.com/

All others are imitators... I can't comment on the three you listed as I have an Oppo.

 

[donfm]

I know Oppo is the best but I am going to use this with an older HDTV and I don't want to invest in anything that good until I upgrade my HDTV. For now I want to mainly play back blu-ray moves and my older DVD's ....and maybe some Netflix at first.

Thank you for your comments.

 

[corwin]

I know Oppo is the best but I am going to use this with an older HDTV and I don't want to invest in anything that good until I upgrade my HDTV. For now I want to mainly play back blu-ray moves and my older DVD's ....and maybe some Netflix at first. Thank you for your comments.

The BDT-210 is a great player and has wireless built in if you need it, if not you can get the 110 for even less and only really lose the wireless...and personally I think the Oppo is overrated and over priced like so many other "high-end" items

 

[kornphlake]

I've got the Samsung, I don't really have any complaints but I'm not anything close to a videophile. If you're not looking for something that will compete with the Oppo I don't think it really matters which one you get as long as you stick with a top tier brand. If you get a bad one it's just your own rotten luck, the same could happen with any of the others just as well. Buy from a reputable store with a liberal return policy if you're the type who always has bad luck with electronics purchases.

 

[donfm]

The BDT-210 is a great player and has wireless built in if you need it, if not you can get the 110 for even less and only really lose the wireless...and personally I think the Oppo is overrated and over priced like so many other "high-end" items

I used to be an audiophile in my younger days. I am now older and the A/V technology has passed me by. The one thing I learned when buying high end equipment is the law of diminishing returns applies. At a certain price point the improvement the average person actually sees in audio/video equipment is just not worth the cost. I currently have an older audiophile Denon Dvd player and for my money the cheaper players picture looked just as good and didn't cost $500. Unless you're really a stickler about picture etc. I can be happy with the less expensive equipment. Oppo is generally considered to be very good....but is the difference worth the money??...that point is debatable....🙂

 

[corwin]

I used to be an audiophile in my younger days. I am now older and the A/V technology has passed me by. The one thing I learned when buying high end equipment is the law of diminishing returns applies. At a certain price point the improvement the average person actually sees in audio/video equipment is just not worth the cost. I currently have an older audiophile Denon Dvd player and for my money the cheaper players picture looked just as good and didn't cost $500. Unless you're really a stickler about picture etc. I can be happy with the less expensive equipment. Oppo is generally considered to be very good....but is the difference worth the money??...that point is debatable....

I'd like to think I still am even though I'm far from a spring chicken, but there's definitely a point at which the performance gain isn't so much the issue as the "prestige" of owning "the best", even if you can't really tell any difference, or maybe it's the placebo effect for electronics, if I paid that much it's got to be better😛

 

[frowertr]

I use to think all players were the same and then I replaced a Sony BD player that went bad on me with my Oppo.

Now I no longer think that all BD players are the same. Panasonic Plasmas and Oppo players are a match made in videophile heaven...

🙂

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

I have a BDP-93, but honestly had good luck with the Samsung I used to use. Mine was a now-obsolete BD-P2550. I occasionally ran into compatibility problems (the Oppo has never refused to play a disc), but other than that it was a perfectly fine machine.