The Philips BDP7300 is a brand new Blu-ray player, with an unusual USP, but one we’re looking forward to testing: super fast loading times. Read on for all the info.
HD visuals are all good and well, but why wait around for them as your Blu-ray player whirls away? The Philips BDP7300 Blu-ray player promises to do away with lengthy loading times with a double quick start up time.
The Philips BDP7300 doesn’t skimp on the specs to be first off the starting line though: it dishes out full HD pics and upscales DVDs to near 1080p, and supports Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio Essential 7.1.
BD Live is also onboard the Philips BDP7300, and there’s a USB port to pop up your own WMV, MP3, WMA, JPG and DivX files on screen. Not bad for something that only uses 0.2W on standby, eh? The Philips BDP7300 is out this month for 249 of your hard earned.
Out June | £249 | Philips
Anyone benchmark it against the PS3? I suspect the PS3 will wipe the floor with this in startup times and BD-J loading times.
If you read the smallprint it will say “fastest standalone player” or some such nonsense.
I would love to see a side-by-side benchmark, with the PS3 set to autoplay discs on boot.
The fastest blu-ray player on the market right now, to load and prepare a disc, is the new Oppo BDP-83. The second fastest is PS3.
If you don’t know what Oppo is, then its this model: http://www.crtprojectors.co.uk/oppo_bdp83.htm