Unfortunately I'm not up to date on current models and whatnot, but I would strongly urge anyone looking into cheap Blu-ray players to stay the HELL away from Panasonic, they are ghastly machines. I've got a region-free modded 360EB and it's worst piece of hardware I have ever bought in my life, the remote control is too small for an everage adult male's hand, it has undefeatable "power saving" features that turn the ******* player off if you pause a disc for about 7mins, and it emits a loud ringing noise when playing blu-ray discs that changes pitch as you progress through a film, so you can actually change chapters and change the pitch and essentialy turn the machine into a weird whistling musicla instrument.
My recommendation would be the
Sony BDP S3700. I hate Sony as a company, but heard nothing but good things about this player. Apparently doesn't suffer from any in-built undefeatable digital processing and simply gives you direct, unfiltered, playback of the disc. That should be a BIG selling point to anyone serious about eradicating noise reduction and any of the other ******** that these idiot companies are ruinining their higher end models with.
Obviously this is a 2016 model though, which is why it's £20 cheaper than the current model which is the BDP-6700. I don't know if the models after the 3700 are equally as good as the 3700 or whether Sony couldn't help themselves and added digital processing. I don't
think their entry level range does, I just don't know for sure.
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