cheapy bluray players?

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giving up on my ocuk bluray pc drive - no firmware updates and PowerDVD 8 wont upgrade anymore unless I fork out £100 on PowerDVD 10
Cyberlink seem to be pretty much criminals after reading their support forum

id rather just buy a basic bluray player for my TV
not bothered by 3d so just after the cheapest I can get away with

seen these around

Pioneer BDP-120 for £50
Toshiba BDX2100 for £60
Panasonic DMP-BD45 for £70
Philips BDP2700 for £70
LG BD550 for £70

just want be be able to play blu rays and update it in the future so I dont buy a blu ray that wont play on it

is this a false economy ? should I spend more? are these players any good?
will I finish this cup of coffee without spilling it?

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I was in exactly the same position with PowerDVD. It's outrageous.

I purchased a Toshiba BDX2100 for £50 and am over the moon with it. The image quality for blu rays is sharper and more intense than it ever was with PDVD. The player itself works great for the money, plays all the titles I've tried, quick to boot. Display is a bit 'old skool' kind of matrix style, but it's a £50 player! Matches my Toshiba TV (with Regza link) and my Toshiba Upscaling DVD player (now obsolete if the BD player is as good).
 
Dont bother, get a nas and a media player and stream the MKV or ISO's through something like XBMC or Boxee. My bluray player has turned into a dust collector already!
 
sHo0sH said:
Dont bother, get a nas and a media player and stream the MKV or ISO's through something like XBMC or Boxee. My bluray player has turned into a dust collector already!
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That's going to be more than £100 though surely? Maybe you should sell the OP your blu ray player! :D
 
It will be, but it's an investment worth making. You can get a WDTV live for £80 and use your computer as the storage device in the mean time, or just stick in a usb HDD.
 
So each time you buy a new blu ray you'll have to rip it to your storage medium? You'll need some software for that too?

I did think about doing something like that, but with the amount of blu rays I have already, and the fact that I no longer buy DVDs, it means it'll take me more time to maintain than I will spend watching the things. Sweet when it's up and running, especially with XBMC or similar, if you've got all the art sorted, but just too much work to be a practical solution. I did this with some of my DVDs but just run out of steam as it's much quicker to just stick the disc in a DVD player.
 
I'm the same as you alex got fed up trying to burn my 200 or so DVD's at 15 mins each then having the check the playback not worth it.

It only us useful if you intend to seriously pirate.
 
nah thanks just want to be able to play the darn things with no faffing

maximum faffing at the moment with long HDMI cable, PC's, power DVD being rubbish, AnyDVD being "trial" and slow rubbishy blu ray drive

thanks for advice though
 
It takes 15 minutes to rip a disc, and with Boxee or XBMC is the file is named correctly it gets all the artwork etc for you. The WDTV option is more of a pain though as you need to use something like Ember media manager.

swings and roundabouts I guess

Can highly reccomend the panasonic bluray player by the way, I have it and picture is superb
 
I snagged an LG BD550 for £59 from Sainsburys the other month, been flawless for me so far, brilliant playback, and quiet.

Only problem i've had is that it's REALLY wide :D doesn't fit on my media shelf under the telly :o

Other than that, it's been brilliant.

I saw the 560 version in ASDA the other week (has WiFi) for around £80 I think it was.
 
I purchased the Panasonic DMP-BD45 just before Christmas. Does the job well for the price, my only criticism is it takes a while to boot from cold standby but hardly a massive problem.
 
I've got one of those awful awful awful slot loading ocuk drives too. Cheap and really, not cheerful. I stuck with PDVD7.3 and ANYDVD HD and managed to struggle on with it but to be honest, the ps3 or sony bdp-360 knocked it into a cocked hat. I'd go with second hand sony from you know where.
 
I think I worded that wrong. I meant that OC-UK putting their name on crappy stuff is going to do their reputation no good, so why do they bother?
 
When it was released it was cheeeap. 55 squid delivered. But I found major problems in XP from the get go I found it worked intermitently in vista but kept vanishing and freezing up the whole pc. I presumed it was my set up but i think it was a lame duck. And OCUK kept their heads down. To be fair, I didn't rely on it nor did i try and return it for being rubbish. I bought a BDP-360 from amazon for about 80 pounds and that was in a differnet league.
 
I bought my ocuk drive off a friend who couldnt get it to play blurays for £15
I then bought an unused copy of power dvd 8 for £10
updated it and still didnt play blu rays so downloaded anydvd and they play fine
so its the firmware of the blu ray drive - which has no updates anywhere on the web
searching on here shows that other people had this issue and ocuk never had an update and nether did the manufacturers

I refuse to buy anydvd (pay for what is essentially a crack! lol!) and its trial date is up so just had enough of messing about and going to buy the Toshiba BDX2100 I think
 
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