Philips BDP7300 Expert Reviews

Philips goes Blu

Quick disc loading, built-in memory, picture and build quality

No Wi-Fi, unreliable WMV playback

Not quite talented enough to topple Panasonic or Samsung, but pleasing build quality and convenient features make this worth considering

It's not lacking in features though - it's one of only two devices on test that includes its own hard drive cache for use with BD-Live (you'll need it to download content). It's not much at 1GB, but that's a gig more than the others, for which you'll ...

Good picture rendering, built-in memory cache for BD-Live, multichannel analogue outputs

Not the very best picture available

The BDP7300 is the first Philips Blu-ray player we've reviewed and we're rather impressed.

Philips' BDP7300 certainly looks more than its £150 price tag

Looks; Built-in memory; Picture quality; Ease of use

No 7.1-channel analogue outputs; Temperamental WMV playback

Owners of Philips TVs will appreciate the remote, which uses the same fonts and icons. Truly ergonomic, the layout is spot on and the rubbery feel of the buttons makes them comfortable to press. There's a large circle for controlling menus and ...

Affordable, versatile and easy to use? The Philips BDP7300 will deservedly tempt people to forgive its weaknesses

Full spec despite competitive price ; imaginative styling and big, clear interface ; good black levels, healthy colours

Picture could be sharper and cleaner ; not the sonic detail of very best

The Blu-ray Disc player BDP-7300 is not the flagship of the Philips, but still captured on the first try the top of our list. Above all the great equipment in the test could convince .

Good picture, Integrated memory for BD-Live, play many formats from extremely ;

No memory card reader ;

The Philips player supports the Blu-ray Profile 2.0 and BD-Live - which allows the device, for example, via the Internet additional information about the current movie download. To this end it has a network interface and a gigabyte of internal memory. The...