What is the Bu-ray plauyer that you are using?

I have 2 OPPO 93s that see more Pandora and USB files than Disks. Great units and a shame they decided to exit the market.

I also endorse the Sony UBP-X800 for Blu Ray, but with one caveat; it does not have a USB port on the back, and using the USB on the front is not a straightforward PNP task. The player requires you to format the disk in a way that it can use it. (I bought this to replace my UDP 205, which developed too many quirks in the movie playback system since OPPO is no longer updating the firmware to my knowledge.)

First format the drive in FAT32; NTFS; exFAT. Then insert it to allow the player to set up it's proprietary file system, then add files. You can’t just plug a drive of any kind into the device and play from it, because the player can’t read the drive if created in a different way. Also, thumb drives are limited to 500gig.

If you can live with that, the picture quality has been worth the price, both on my old Bravia and my new LG OLED.

Marantz DVD 930.  An oldy but a goody !

I use an Oppo 103D for Blu Ray and for streaming. I recently added an Amazon Fire Stick sine the firmware on the Oppo is getting outdated. It works like a champ now and I feed it through my Holo Audio DAC for sound.

Try and seek out a Pioneer LX500(sadly discontinued). I have a Oppo103 and Sony XA5400ES(SACD/CD only). The Pioneer is better on Blu Ray/4k and SACD on my system. Not by a huge margin, the Pio is cleaner a more focused. Video side is much closer. Hard to tell the difference.