Philips BDP3010/F7 Blu-ray Disc Player

• Blue-ray Disc Player plays back BD discsin Full HD 1080p
• BD Live for enjoyment of online content
• Digital audio out plus 5.1 / 7.1 sound via HDMI out
• SD Card slot for media playback and external memory
• 360 mm size fits in small places

Cons:

I agree with the previous review that it does load blu-ray discs pretty slowly. Sometimes, it also has an issue with remembering where it left off when the auto-shut off feature kicks in if you leave a movie paused too long. You also have to be pretty exact with the remote, basically aiming directly at the player with nothing obscuring its' line-of-sight. I also do not like that the remote itself does not have an "Eject" button, but it's more of a preference thing.

Pros:

Picture quality is awesome on blu-rays, 24fps gives great picture quality on a 120Hz HDTV. I normally play BD-R shrinked movies, but they look the same as commercial blu-ray movies. Commercial DVDs upconverted also look really good, and shrinked movies on DVD-/+R look pretty good (more artifacts are recognizable, but 24fps cinema-like playback still makes them look awesome). Playing my copied DVDs through this thing definitely gives them a different feel, almost as if you're watching it for the first time....again.

Comments:

I wanted a cheap stand-alone to play my blu-rays because I didn't want to wear out the BD-RW drive in my computer that costs twice as much as this player. I have not hooked it up to the Internet because I mainly play copied blu-ray discs which do not require updates to play. I have no issues with regions since the copies nullify any region coding. I also have yet to test/or have any use for playback of media on SD since I do all that stuff through a computer hooked into the same TV. I also use the computer for Netflix streaming so I cannot comment on that either. For what I needed a blu-ray player for, this fit the bill for $50 refurbished.

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There are several problems with this player that make it something I cannot recommend.

First, this player is quite slow to boot up, you have to wait more than 30 seconds before you can even open the disk tray. This is a minor annoyance.

Second, if you stop and extract a disk before it is finished, the player virtually never remembers where you left off, necessitating a wait through the fbi warnings, previews if there are any, and then a search for where you left off. This is a very big annoyance.

Third, as we have both European and American dvd and blu-ray disks, we wanted to convert it to an international setting. The salesman assured me this was easy, gave me the website to find the code, and I then discovered that it works only for dvd's and is impossible to do for blu-rays. This is beyond an annoyance and infuriated me, as I had already bought multi-zone blu-rays.

That makes this a bad purchase for us.