I want a bluray player

[Simon (Highwayman)]

So I want a bluray player. It has to have all the smart features including dnla and nas connectivity. The best ones are Sony but they are on my ban list.

Suggestions?

[Patti (baconater)]

Why not Sony?

[Simon (Highwayman)]

They are at the centre of cinavia. This is a bit of technology that does very clever drm on bluray. Unfortunately it has been implemented in such a way that it will cripple the market and it gets put on your player by firmware update. Of course I would never support pirating but this is just stage one in yet another control system that allows big business to monitor our lives.


Oh, that was a rant wasn't it.

[Michael]

Sony are dicks.

[Patti (baconater)]

See Simon? You could learn from Michael. Succinct, to the point and non-geek language.

[Simon (Highwayman)]

Fair cop. Michael has summed it up. Sony used to make great kit though.

[[deleted user]]

I used to have a sony tv and dvd/video recorder a few years ago. The dvd replaced my old panasonic video player which I'd loved. I found that it took about three or four key presses to get the sony to do, what took one key press of the panasonic! I've avoided sony ever since on the grounds of too much complexity!

We're samsung fans in our household..

:0)

[Elle]

We have mostly Samsung things in our house too. We don't have a bluray but our normal player is a Samsung, so is the TV

[Simon (Highwayman)]

I have a Samsung tv so perhaps Samsung is the way to go

[Jay-me (Janet)]

I need to clean my glasses, I read the thread title as "I want a blurry player"

[Patti (baconater)]

He'll be watching it after being down the pub. It will be a blurry player.

[Elle]

I saw it too Janet

[Tim]

I've got a Panasonic blu-ray player. It goes well with the Panny TV - works off a single remote etc. It connects to the internet, but it's a few years old so it doesn't do DNLA streaming (but I've got an AppleTV and several TBs of stuff in iTunes for that)

If you have a Sammy TV though, I'd suggest a Sammy Blu-ray player. It'll integrate better.

[Simon (Highwayman)]

I am warming to the Samsung idea...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-BD-E5...

But it seems such a crowded market......

[Geoff]

I have a Sony bluray system (incorporated with LCD TV screen) purchased from the main Sony outlet in Sydney, and I particularly asked the sales person if it would play all zone DVDs (in Oz it is illegal to sell a DVD player that will not play all zones) and I was given gobbledy- gook about the system being exempt because it was a ‘system’, not a stand alone player, so technically it was not a DVD player. Because of the price I bought the system, as I have a ‘normal’ DVD player which I have connected through the system to play all zones other than Oz zone 4 – but it’ll be a long time before I buy a Sony product again. It left a 'bad taste' . .

[Jamie]

Evening,

I don't generally "do" Sony but last year when I was revamping the home cinema they launched a new range fo 3d Blu ray players, with network capability, and it's been awesome. Dead straightforward to operate, bit of a crap looking remote though.

I've got it networked, it has lots of on demand features for them that don't have sky and, if you're really hard up, you can browse the internet too. God knows why you'd want to do that via a Blu ray player.

It's hooked up to my 9 foot projector screen and everything looks gorgeous. Sadly, it cannot make a crap film any better.

[Vanessa (aka Dumbo)]

Jamie wrote: "Evening,

I don't generally "do" Sony but last year when I was revamping the home cinema they launched a new range fo 3d Blu ray players, with network capability, and it's been awesome. Dead straig..."


That sounds awesome. Have you got a room dedicated to it?

[Andrew]

I have a Panasonic Blu-ray recorder. It plays my movies, streams through DLNA and can archive fifteen hours of BBC 4 documentaries to a single disc (7-8hrs if they're on BBC HD).

[Elle]

Imagine my disgust/shock when the other day I realised we actually use a Sony DVD player. Apparently the Samsung one was nothing but problems for the sound system so we had to replace it a few months back.

[Andrew]

I wouldn't say I'm anti-Sony. I picked up a second Blu-ray player for routing music round the house and went with the Sony because it handles SACD. Can't grumble for £50, but it won't supplant the Panny, because they're the only recorders out there.

[Geoff (G. Robbins) (merda constat variat altitudo)]

I've given up on the whole Blu-ray thing. I have a player on my laptop. I rip the disks to MP4 and stream them. Problem solved.

Now they play on any DNLA device, or PC or iPad, or Android device. You just need two pieces of software to do it.