'Best' cheap(y) blu-ray player?

[LukeBird]

Just having a look around at them at the moment and there is just too much in the way of choice, I have no idea where to look?!
Just want a boggo player, decent upscaling would be nice (although isn't most upscaling pretty good anyway?) just looking for a good recommendation.

In HMV they had a deal on the Philips BDP1500 with 3 BR DVDs (BBC's Life, Wonders of the Solar System and Planet Earth) for £160 which looks like a pretty good deal.
Anything else I should be looking at?

[rykard]

the sonys are getting good reviews, bdps 370& 570

[PaulG40]

Ive got a Toshiba BDX1200, was pretty good value and great quality from it.

[LukeBird]

Thanks chaps, I shall look into them.
Any others I should be looking at?

[Ali2202]

320GB PS3 on Amazon for £274!!

Sooo much worth the extra moolah.

[.Mark]

Panasonic BD80 or 85, £150 or so and 7.1 out.

[telecat]

At the Cheap end Philips players are getting good reviews to the extent that they are reckoned to have a picture equal to £200 Sony/Panasonic players.

[sprouting]

If you want the cheapest the Technika at £49.95 from Tesco is getting good reviews on AV forums.

[skoff]

Have the new ones got any quicker to start up? Mine takes an age... Good picture though.

[Busamav]

We recently purchased a Panasonic unit for £90 , inc free discs , works fine and plays discs just as one would hope.

[john_p]

brickwall said:

rykard said:

the sonys are getting good reviews, bdps 370& 570

Just bought a 370 - both picture and sound are superb.

+1
built in iPlayer is handy too
and with Mezzmo it will stream practically anything off my PC

[Legend83]

Where are you going to use it?

I only ask as I recently bought an LG BD550 as a "great" deal from Blockbuster for the bedroom. I found that having it on quietly at night while the missus was asleep it would make an awful whirring noise which drowned out the film.

I have read the cheaper Sony's suffer from this occasionally.

I bought the Panasonic DMP-BD45 from Amazon for £90. It is slow to load films up but it is uber-quiet and does everything you would require of a basic player.

[LukeBird]

Legend83 said:

Where are you going to use it?

The lounge, so within reason noise isn't much of a problem (as long as it's quieter than an xbox 360!).

Interesting point regarding cheaper Philips players having good quality images.
I think I may just nip down to Best Buy and see what they have in stock and on a deal.

[TheBear]

We got the Sony 570 at Christmas for £135. Was going to get just the basic model but need a wireless connection in our room which would've meant the base model being more expensive as you have to buy a wireless dongle thingy whereas the 570 had it built in.

[carlymart]

sony 370 great little player. i have a ps3 and a sony BDP760 for my main system and the 370 in the bedroom and its really good Iplayer five on demand streams from my NAS drive. worth its £100

[LukeBird]

Thanks for the advice chaps, I bought an LG BD550 in the end.
It seemed a good price (£90), I did want to buy the Panasonic BD45, but it wasn't in stock. Just need to get digital audio into the amp now.

[jbudgie]

Legend83 said:

Where are you going to use it?

I only ask as I recently bought an LG BD550 as a "great" deal from Blockbuster for the bedroom. I found that having it on quietly at night while the missus was asleep it would make an awful whirring noise which drowned out the film.

I have read the cheaper Sony's suffer from this occasionally.

I bought the Panasonic DMP-BD45 from Amazon for £90. It is slow to load films up but it is uber-quiet and does everything you would require of a basic player.

Another vote for the Panasonic BD-45 from Amazon.