blu ray player - recommendation?

"Tony" wrote in message
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And why does Blu-ray take so long to boot up, its worse than my PC?.. well
maybe not, but boot is about 30s, then another 30s to load the disk, then
more to load the menus...CHRIST!

Heavy use of Java , I believe.

The Sony player has an option in the menus to allow quicker boot at the
expense of higher power consumption - it doesn't shut down the system as
fully.

--
Alex

"Steve Thackery" wrote in message
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Well, mine is definitely the S360 and I think it's dreadful. Here are
some timings:

Over a minute to start playing the film! That's terrible. Personally I
really regret buying it.

Someone...somewhere said:
If you plug in a blank USB flash drive, loading will be quicker.

I have no idea how or whether this would do any good and I don't have a BR
player, but it would be easy to try out and disprove another urban myth.

No money refunded!

Roger R

PS3

"bugbear" wrote in message
o.uk...
OK, the inevitable is lumbering towards me.

DVD is slowly dieing, and already there are
some films where special versions
are blu-ray only.

So I need (loosely speaking, for some value of "need")
a blu ray player.

Requirments:

* Decent picture
* Good sound (I feed my Stereo, which is good verging on esoteric)
* DVD capability, with upscaling
* HDMI output for my Toshiba

I'm guessing those are easy requirements to meet,
so - recommend away!

BugBear

On 22/03/2010 11:07, bugbear wrote:
OK, the inevitable is lumbering towards me.

DVD is slowly dieing, and already there are
some films where special versions
are blu-ray only.

So I need (loosely speaking, for some value of "need")
a blu ray player.

Requirments:

* Decent picture
* Good sound (I feed my Stereo, which is good verging on esoteric)
* DVD capability, with upscaling
* HDMI output for my Toshiba

I'm guessing those are easy requirements to meet,
so - recommend away!

BugBear

If you are not too bothered by the 'downturn' then have a look at the
OPPO BD-83.

http://www.oppodigital.com/blu-ray-b...-83-Image.aspx

Excellent, speedy machine with top audio options...

I'm about to install one for a client.

Guy

Have you chaps not got a moment to live?
You will die early worrying about a few seconds.
Regards
David

Bigguy wrote:

If you are not too bothered by the 'downturn' then have a look at the
OPPO BD-83.

http://www.oppodigital.com/blu-ray-b...-83-Image.aspx

Excellent, speedy machine with top audio options...

I don't mind spending high, but I REALLY object
to spending high on items with a short life.

And blu-ray players are gonna get old, real quick.

BugBear

"Bob Latham" wrote in message
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I liked it so much I bought one. :-)

Wow, look at the price, though!

SteveT