Blu Ray & HD-DVD Players

Advantages: ease of use
Disadvantages: no 7.1 surround sound spport

Attractive and stylish with a huge value in pricing makes this player outshine the competition. Sound is superb with full Dolby support. Ethernet ports allow BD-Live content to be accessed and downloaded, access web contetent encoded to Blu-ray discs via BD-Live, storage for downloaded content is provided by plugging a USB device into the port at the rear of the player. Has Picture in Picture support and the ability to upscale standard DVD's to ... Read review

Advantages: Near HD picture quality on tradional DVDs. Also plays most all DVDs
Disadvantages: Software Updates download from internet to CD & load CD in Blu Ray Player

...you must go to the Panasonic website to download player software updates to a CD-R and then put the cd in the Blu Ray player for the actual update. I have tried several times to update my player and it consistently ejects the CD without updating the software. I have not contacted Panasonic about this yet as it doesn't effect the DVD quality but since I have followed directions for this process it is obviously flawed. ... Read review

Advantages: good quality, low to mid cost
Disadvantages: not the perfect

Samsung BD-P1500 is a high definition 1080p resolution disc player. It is designed worth for its cost but not the most perfect. It gives high quality sound with no fan sound or noise. It is a player for those who seek the mid- to lower-cost player, to (duh) save money. You get the player for what you pay. From my personal experience I find that an older receiver that doesn't decode the two new DD and DTS formats, and (probably) doesn't decode multi-channel ... Read review

Advantages: Get all the quality of HD without the pricey cost of most others
Disadvantages: Takes quite a bit of time to boot up

I received a gift card to Sears and bought this blu ray player while it was on sale so ended up getting it for really cheap. It was on sale for $300 and after my gift card I paid under $200. I wanted to take the next step in DVD technology but without paying the hefty price so I decided to go with this cheaper model...that is the only reason I went with this one. The quality of video is amazing. I thought I wouldn't notice the difference between ...
...I was dead wrong. I will say that the bigger the TV you have to watch this on the better it will look. You do not lose resolution with the larger TV sets so you don't get that boxy break up thing you get on your computer sometimes when watching video (pixilation for you techy people). The only downside to this player is that it takes quite a long time to boot up. You literally have to turn it on and then walk away for a minute or two and then come ... Read review

Advantages: great picture, easy to use
Disadvantages: may be a bit pricey

Having this amazing device in my home feels like an honour. I can't believe the incredible graphics this thing is capable of! I own many blu-ray movies, namely spiderman 3, dragon wars, irobot and black hawk down and, seriousely, I can't stop showing them off to my mates on this player! On a HD TV with full 1080p the picture is sublime. The picture is amazingly sharp, and so detailed. You can now see the spots Will Smith has that you never knew ... Read review