Recommend me a multi-region Blu Ray player

[IforB]

I've got the Oppo bdp-95 and it's superb.

Slightly outside of the £300 budget though, but if you can find a 93 for somewhere close to your budget, just get it. Great machines.

[OldSkoolRS]

The Oppo BDP-1003 and 1005 are now out so good chance of a deal on a '93 or '95 now.

[IforB]

Maybe, but the Oppo's do seem to hold their value rather well. Which was an annoyance when I looked for one. I ended up just buying a new one as the difference in price just wasn't that great .

The 103 and 105 sound very interesting with a fanless design and a few extra bits like 4k upscaling, but it does smack of spec chasing to some degree, since not may of us have screens that can deal with 4k anyway!

[OldSkoolRS]

The only review I've seen of the 4K output was on a Sony VW1000 projector and the conclusion was that the 4K upscaling wasn't as good as that built into the projector... I don't know if there would really be any improvement in the picture quality on a 1080p display anyway as the 93 and 95 are reference anyway: You can't make it any more sharper/better colours/motion than it already is. In fact for 1080/24p my previous budget Sony BluRay player didn't look any different once calibrated on my projector setup: Some players have sharpness settings that can't be defeated, which might give a 'different' picture, but whether it's an improvement is another matter.

There have been a few 93s and 95s for sale in the classifieds on AVForums recently, can't recall the pricing though. I got a good deal on mine 18 months ago because I bought some calibration equipment at the same time.