Lily L asked:
I’ve seen them priced as low as $250, all the way up to $2000. Most seem to be in the $500-$600 range.
I understand that there are differences, but what in heck could justify the $2000 one? What can it do that’s so special?
Tags: Blu Ray Players, Enormous Range, Heck
01 Aug 09 11:07 pm
And what’s the deal with airline food?
05 Aug 09 7:46 am
What does the Sun taste like?
07 Aug 09 11:42 am
It is just like anything else. Cars range from $10,000 to $2.5 Million. Factors that impact price:
Build quality. Extra things it can do like streaming movies from Netflix or music from Pandora or Youtube videos, wireless connectivity, connectivity to advanced control systems, name brand, etc…
The other thing that is true with electronics, you get less and less improvements for your money the higher up you go. It is “The Law of Diminishing Returns.”
09 Aug 09 5:16 pm
Not all Blu-Ray players are created equal. It may seem like a huge price difference, but some of the differences are crucial. For example, if you have a home theater set-up, and want the Blu-ray player to send raw (unprocessed audio) to your amp to be processed and sent out to the speakers, some Blu-ray players can’t do that. Some Blu-ray players can’t even process the HD audio, nor send it out to be processed, hence you’ll never hear HD audio. A bummer considering that HD audio is one of the major points in getting Blu-ray right? (6-10 times the audio quality of DVD).
For reasons such as these, some players can do things others can’t. it all depends on your requirements. if you don’t need any of that and only care about the picture quality, you may be able to get a lower end model, but be sure its not one that only spits out 1080i (some do)
12 Aug 09 7:53 am
At the bottom are basic players with no networking, so they cannot auto update firmware and don’t do BD Live or streaming video.
Next up the line have an ethernet port for firmware updates, BD Live, and streaming internet video (where from depends upon manufacturer). They often have no memory for BD Live, so you may need to connect at least 1 GB USB or SD memory. I am happy with one of those, because I had an old wireless bridge and memory is cheap.
Next up have networking and built-in memory and may include WiFi.
Somewhere in the mix are type of audio they support, other types of disks and file types supported, and whether they support streaming video from other local PC’s.