Many people believe the Sony PS3 is the best. A few adaptations to make it work with the BeoVision 7, but probably a pretty good recommendation.

No adaptions is needed to work with BV7 mkIII, just plug the HDMI in :-)

The PS3 is fast between the menues on BD and have proberly a better picture quiality on dvd than the dvdplayer in BV7, but i won`t say that it is the best BD player on the marked.

Oppo is comming whit a BD player in few monthe (in Europe) you shut take a look at that, many have high expatations to that player and i thing that in price/ quaility it`s gonna be the best.

Maybe the Panasonic DMR-BW500.  It has a lot more features than just playing blue ray. I'd say better picture quality and sound though it is expensive. The PUC config is being written and will be available shortly.

Beoaus.

Looking for the "best" blu ray player might not be an easy task. I ask myself the same question a month ago. The challenge at least from my point of view is that the picture quality outputting a blu ray from the most current models is very close together.

I could not see any difference between Panasonic, Samsung and Denon. 

So next step for me was to understand if there is any noticable difference with playing back standard DVD's. Samsungs player with the build in Reon chip was in theory much better than the Panasonic, but I have to say, with the BS3 in between, it was hard to see the difference even on my 2,24m screen.

Finally, picture performance was much closer together than the reviews I have seen in most of the magazins so my purchasing decission was based on how easy the system could be operate, noise level and price. And not to forget how the PUC is performing.

Long story short, I ordered a Panasonic BD35. It is not perfect (e.g. slow operation) but a lot bang for the buck 😁

I can't fault my PS3. I wasn't a game player before I bought it, but realised it would serve various purposes (ie. I wasn't spending £300 to simply play better quality DVDs). It's ultra-quiet and performs well. I do now play the odd game, too.

You can buy the Goldmund blu-ray player if you want the best, but it's not cheap  (12000,-) 😁.

I should look at a Panasonic BD55 in the range 300,-. Very good player with the latest technologies.

Well guys had my BV7 Mk 3 40 inch with software 5.04 installed yesterday including the ability to control the PS3 from the Beo 5 and the picture quality is simply staggering.  This is accomplished using the Nyco USB stick that simply goes into a USB port.  Watched Apocalypto and the colors are simply amazing.  

The PS3 plays games, upscales DVDs, acts as a media server. What other BR player on the market can boast that amount of flexibility.  I also have control of my Apple Tv and Virgin box.  

The PS3 is also increadibly easy to update the firmware on it over the internet, whereas other players are not set up to do this. So you will always be taking full advantage of your Blu Ray movies because of this.

beodude wrote:

The PS3 is also increadibly easy to update the firmware on it over the internet, whereas other players are not set up to do this. So you will always be taking full advantage of your Blu Ray movies because of this.

BDP-S350 (and I would expect the more expensive models also) does this as well.