Philips BDP3010/F7 Blu-ray Disc Player

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.

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...Read more