Buying a DVD player - blu-ray or not?

gnolan

I'm looking to buy a DVD player but am not too sure whether i should be looking to get a standard player or a blu-ray player.

I have between 100 and 150 euro to spend. I assume that blu-ray players will also play standard definition DVDs? My main worry is that Blu-Ray will be another short-lived fad like HDDVD or mini-discs or sega saturn or......the cheeky girls.

Can anyone advise me on the situation, and maybe recommend a product or two. Thanks

Idleater

gnolan wrote: »

I have between 100 and 150 euro to spend.

With that budget I'd suggest looking at plain DVD players.

gnolan

nereid wrote: »

With that budget I'd suggest looking at plain DVD players.

You reckon? You think for that price i'd end up with a crappy entry level-type Blu-Ray player?

Any suggestion for a good standard DVD player? Maybe one that can play .avi's through a usb or SD-card? Or is that asking a little too much of a DVD player?!

Idleater

gnolan wrote: »

You reckon? You think for that price i'd end up with a crappy entry level-type Blu-Ray player?

My question to this is why would you want that? You'd never get to see the benefits of blu ray and end up cursing the new technology.

Save up for a ps3 if you want a pretty good BR player with very little better feature wise.

gnolan

nereid wrote: »

My question to this is why would you want that? You'd never get to see the benefits of blu ray and end up cursing the new technology.

Save up for a ps3 if you want a pretty good BR player with very little better feature wise.

I never said i wanted that. I asked if 100-150 would only get me a crappy entry level blu-ray player, suggesting i am unfamiliar with the prices of blu-ray players; not suggesting i want a crappy entry level player.

Have been looking at the Philips DVP5990/05, seems to have a USB 2.0 port for playing movies, music jpegs etc. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Philips-DVP3360-05-1080p-Player/dp/B0024FA8UQ Anyone any views on it, seems to have some decent reviews on avforums.

Idleater

gnolan wrote: »

I never said i wanted that....
Have been looking at the Philips DVP5990/05,

Okay, you need to make a choice:

either you want a BR player for example the ps3 has usb ports, much more media opportunities and network capabilities, but costs more than your original budget allows

or

you want a DVD player that fits in your budget and does a few things besides playing DVD's which you didn't specify in your original post.


If it is the latter, I'm not the best person to comment further as I'm more of the opinion of leaving players play and media devices do media.

Jev/N

You can get a decent enough bluray from Richersounds for between £110-150 and it's free delivery if you're from boards.

If you've a HDTV, go for a bluray

XDivaX

There is a tivoli player with HDMI cable in aldi for €45 as a special this week,
I have a HD television but I can't say whether it is good or not yet as I got someone to buy it for me and hadn't collected it yet.

Don't want to buy one of blu ray players until next year when prices are bound to go down! Remember dvd player costing like €300 at start of era

GiftGrub100

The Sony BDP S350 Blu Ray is in Currys (Mahonpoint) for 167 euro at the moment, stunning value for an excellent Blu Ray player.

Vic Vinegar

GiftGrub100 wrote: »

The Sony BDP S350 Blu Ray is in Currys (Mahonpoint) for 167 euro at the moment, stunning value for an excellent Blu Ray player.

Seconded, that's a great price a very good piece of kit. Xtravision have it too for €199 with 3 Blu-rays free too.

Elmo

Bump. Suppose its not that long ago.

I notice that the Sony Blue ray player mentioned above is now retailing from between 159 and 199 in Currys, HMV and Sony Stores not sure what price they are in each store.

Anyone know of any other good Blue Rays for less than 150euro?

jmadoyle

prices have come down alot in the last couple of months, powercity have sony blurays from 128 euro

http://www.powercity.ie/?par=10-15&brands=SONY

amazon.co.uk have philips bluray for 105 Sterling inc shipping(free shipping above 25pounds)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0026WNDV8/ref=s9_sima_gw_s0_p23_t1?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=009RRENMZASXYVQ1Q3KF&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467198433&pf_rd_i=468294


both are good machines for silly money.

tman

Jev/N wrote: »

If you've a HDTV, go for a bluray

QFT
Bluray definitely doesn't seem to be a fad at all, and the prices are starting to drop to reasonable levels (picked up Xmen 2 for less than a fiver recently, Dark Knight for under a tenner etc)

ScrubsfanChris

If you can find another 25 euro:

http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/-/836/1052/-/10361072/Sony-BDP-S360-Blu-ray-Disc-Player/Product.html?searchtype=genre#

I've got the previous model, the S350 and is great.