Looking for a Blu-ray Player

[aberthol]

I just got a used Sony KD-34XBR960 for mad cheap so I figured it was now worth getting a Blu-ray Player.

I am not really sure how to go about looking for the player I want, I live in the USA but for my store bought dvd collection, I have I would guess at least 40% of my dvds are from other regions. So I have always bought the all region/region free dvd players. My last one being the OPPO DV-980H this was amazing to me. These days I download lots of video, so with the player I was able to put xvid/avi on a usb drive and plug it right into the dvd player.

I have been hearing great things about this Netflix instant streaming video service which sounds like a great thing, so I guess I would want a player that has that as an option, which tell me if I am wrong but it seems like from what I read that the OPPO BDP-83 does not do that. I have a Cat 6 wire from my router to my tv so I do not need a wireless Blu-ray Player. I am not sure but I think I have read that there are some players that you can simply plug a hard drive into and be able to play videos straight from the hard drive, so I would end up saving my on burning disc. So that sounds like a good feature.

So I guess what I am looking for is a Blu-ray player that can play any type of video file I through at it, be able to be all region/region free, be able to plug a hard drive into it and has an ethernet port so I can use online streaming capabilities.


Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you.

[whatshisname]

Buy a cheap $20-$40 off-brand/oversea dvd player for region free dvd playing. Buy a PS3 for the rest of the features you want (including netflix streaming that was recently added).

PS,
I watched season 4 Heroes in HD streaming from netflix onto my PS3 and the quality was excellent. Oddly enough, you don't get the option to stream HD from netflix onto your computer.

[aberthol]

I am not really interested in getting a video game system, last one I owned was the Super Nintendo. Can anyone suggest me any other options?

[jman98]

The ONLY region free options for North America for BluRay and DVD playback are the Oppo and Momitsu players. That's it. Neither does Netflix, YouTube, etc. I doubt that they will support this any time soon, if ever. I think video streaming like from Netflix is highly overrated and I've been pretty happy with my region free Momitsu. Note that there is no region 0 (all regions) setting for BluRay so you have to change between regions A, B and C as necessary, but those players can be set to region 0 for DVD playback. I think you might be happy with either.