Any good moderately priced bluray players?


Hi everybody,

I'm in the market for a moderately priced bluray player. I don't need 3D buy I do want a player that has streaming services like Netflix and Pandora.

It will be used for movies in the family room with my main two channel system. I don't really need multi channel analog outputs since the main system is two channel only.
Good picture quality and good contruction are the main criteria.

I'm sure people will recommend Oppo. The question is are there any good quality players between the big box store $79 players and Oppo's $500 player? What's available around $250-300, and are they much better than entry level?

Thanks in advance

bmdduck
bmdduck

Showing 1 response by paraneer

I don't know if this is important to you or not, but please be aware. One of the problems with new budget to even mid level players is a lack of even 2 channel analog outputs. They are HDMI only. You mentioned you want to use it in a 2 channel system, so most likely you will be confined to audio via HDMI into whatever hub you are using.

In my system, the Blu-ray player doubles as my CD player but I only listen to CD's via 2 channel analog into a 2 channel analog preamp. These RCA analog outputs were a must. The HDMI cable goes into the AVR for when I am watching video discs or listening to SACDs. Thats a nice thing about the Oppo's or higher priced players - full set of connections. Good luck.