Philips BDP3000 Reviews

Occasionally, the BDP3000/05 Blu-ray player's budget nature reveals itself -- you need to supply a 1GB memory stick before you can access BD-Live content, for example -- but, for the most part, it's a great machine. Its picture and audio quality are ...

Impressive design and construction ; easy to use ; great picture quality

You need to supply a 1GB memory stick before you can access BD-Live content

The Philips BDP3000/05 lacks DTS-HD MA decoding and, annoyingly, requires that you supply a 1GB USB memory stick in order to access BD-Live content. But it's well-built, speedy to load discs and delivers good picture quality. All in all, it's a good ...

Blu-ray on a budget

BD-Live, DivX playback, excellent value pictures, good upscaling

No media USB port, external memory stick needed for BD-Live

This deck's excellent value pictures should give it a wide appeal, despite the slightly cumbersome BD-Live arrangement

Easy to set up and use but hardly the cheapest nor the most versatile Blu-ray player around.

The BDP3000 is a solidly built Blu-ray, DVD and CD media player that performs extremely well. It also provides a decent range of video-out and audio-out ports, plus an Ethernet connection. It is not an all-round media player, though: there is no ...