Blu-Ray Players

For the very best high definition audio-visual experience, you will need a Blu-ray player. There are a huge range of good quality Blu-ray players available from the very cheap bottom end to the top manufacturers such as Sony, Panasonic and Samsung.

It's also taken this long for Blu-ray to get its act together and we have seen Blu-ray go through three separate profiles to land at Profile 2.0 (or BD-Live). If you're looking for the most future-proofed Blu-ray player, get one based on this.

Features to look for in a player nowadays are Ethernet and USB ports (for BD-Live and YouTube/Picasa), onboard decoding for Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio, and firmware upgradeability.

Players have fallen to below the sub-$400 mark and have become more accessible to consumers.