Samsung strikes again with a full-featured Blu-ray player offering strong performance, quick disc loading and excellent internet streaming capabilities. But a far-from-perfect local networking feature keeps the BD-P3600 from earning our highest rating.
LG’s BD370 is the company’s second Netflix-enabled Blu-ray player. It’s also offers YouTube. Mix that up with decent Blu-ray performance and quick disc response and you’ve got a media machine worth checking out.
Building on last year’s popular top of the line Blu-ray player, Panasonic adds VIERA Cast for online content access. Is it enough to slay the stiff stand-alone competition?
LG’s BD300 was the first to include Netflix online streaming and now it’s the first to offer YouTube access, but does the performance measure up to its robust feature set?
Panasonic goes mainstream with a full-featured Blu-ray player that offers amazing performance at a decent price. It may be the perfect player for anyone who doesn’t require analog multichannel outputs to get their high resolution sound.
Can Samsung redeem some earlier missteps in Blu-ray technology with a new BD player that just about does it all? Note: review has been updated to include results of a firmware upgrade which adds DTS-HD decoding.
Samsung’s BD-P1500 BD-Live ready Blu-ray Disc player offers many great features and the promise of DTS-HD decoding and BD-Live with a future firmware update, all in a sleekly designed package, but the video playback leaves a bit to be desired.
Panasonic does it again with a feature-packed Blu-ray Disc player at an affordable price.
Sony’s BD-Live ready Blu-ray Disc player packs a big punch in a small and affordable package.
Toshiba’s top of the line third generation HD DVD player gives us stunning playback of 1080p high definition movies as well as support for the latest next generation surround sound formats. But is that enough?
