The World’s Best Blu-ray Player
2009
LG BD 390 Network Blu-ray Disc Player
Can you answer yes to the following…
- Your display’s resolution is 1080p?
- Your display supports 24fps?
- Your AV receiver decodes TrueHD and DTS-HD MA?
- You will be playing more Blu-ray than DVD movies?
If you answered yes to all four questions the best Blu-ray player doesn’t exist since everyone of them will perform almost identically. Sure you’ll read review after review going on about this or that and you’ll run across endless postings why one player is better than another. After doing A/B comparisons with roughly two dozen players I found the differences equivalent to the following.
- Skippy vs Jiff
- Cola-Cola vs Pepsi-Cola
- Titleist vs Nike
More than likely you have strong feelings about each of the above but there is no denying they are more similar than different. I’ll take Jiff, Cola-Cola and Nike but my choices are based on the little things. Which is exactly what you’ll need to do when deciding which Blu-ray player is best for you. A few of these include…
- Price
- Player’s DVD upscaling
- Player’s de-interlacing
- Performance speed
- Disc or hard drive streaming
- Local network streaming
- Internet streaming services such as Amazon, Netflix and Pandora
That’s a big list of small things to consider but at least you can easily decide which of them are important to you which will reduce all of those best in the world players down to the one which is best for you. Here are our current recommendations based on a few of those little things.
- Samsung BD-P1600
– Plain Jane
- LG BD 390 Network Blu-ray Disc Player
– Streaming Warrior
- OPPO BDP-83 – Jack of All Trades with configureable analog audio output
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