help choosing new bluray player
Hello all,
I currently have an old DMP-BD30 panasonic bluray player that i want to upgrade. It plays up a bit and is rediculosly slow.
Can you guys recomend any players, my tv is a sony XBR series 40" and the bluray player will be connected to the rega dac through eiher optical or coaxial.
Another option i thought would be getting a bluray drive for my pc which is connected to the tv through HDMI coming out of a geforce gts 250 graphics card. The PC is also running through the rega dac through optical.
with this upgrade the main thing is to get a player thats much faster. Better sound and picture is just a bonus. I havent really got a budget at the moment so open to all sugestions.
Thanks 
Thanks for the reply 
the PS3 is very tempting. will playing blurays through PC produce a better picture? My PC is on all the time, just have it set to hybernate mode after an hour of no use.
Thanks for the reply the PS3 is very tempting. will playing blurays through PC produce a better picture? My PC is on all the time, just have it set to hybernate mode after an hour of no use.
Can't comment on the picture via PC as I only have DVD on mine, but there's no reason I can think of for it to be any worse, and then of course you get the potential to back the disks up (although I think that may still be illegal, not sure).
Hello all,
I currently have an old DMP-BD30 panasonic bluray player that i want to upgrade. It plays up a bit and is rediculosly slow.
Can you guys recomend any players, my tv is a sony XBR series 40" and the bluray player will be connected to the rega dac through eiher optical or coaxial.
Another option i thought would be getting a bluray drive for my pc which is connected to the tv through HDMI coming out of a geforce gts 250 graphics card. The PC is also running through the rega dac through optical.
with this upgrade the main thing is to get a player thats much faster. Better sound and picture is just a bonus. I havent really got a budget at the moment so open to all sugestions.
Thanks
I upgraded my (as you say stupidly slow) panasonic for a PS3. At least as good picture on BR or DVD and super quick (Well it does use Cell processors
). Pros - regular updates, powerful upscaling, media player, divx/xvid playback, plays all disks , BBC iPlayer etc, cons - Needs air, otherwise can be noisy, remote is Bluetooth (I use a Harmony One with PS3 gizmo).
Sound through DAC will be on a par.
The PC option is a good one if you're happy to have it switched on all the time.
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