While the first wave of Blu-ray discs containing pin HD Sharp and many other things, budget debut Philips player is loaded with features that can even extend to download extras disc BD Live. Given the exceptionally low price, the stylish shiny black facade and a hood that hides the disc tray, there is very little that remains of great value high definition images.

As with other machines at this price it doesn’t have analog surround-sound outputs, so make sure you have a modern AV receiver with a HDMI input if you want to experience the Dolby TrueHD 7.1 sound.

This is the BDP3000 blu-ray player released by Philips and on sale now at the reasonable price of $239.92 from Amazon.

Onboard Features:

• Blu-ray/DVD/CD/JPEG/MP3/WMA/WMV/DivX Ultra playback,
  
• Onboard Dolby TrueHD decoder,
  
• Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD bitstream output,
  
• 1080p DVD upscaling,
  
• 1080p24 video output via HDMI 1.3,
  
• EasyLink (HDMI-CEC); Profile 2.0.

Connectivity:

• HDMI,
  
• Component-video,
  
• Composite-video,
  
• Analog stereo output,
  
• Digital coaxial audio,
  
• Network port,
  
• USB port.

Weight: 2.5 kg