Good Basic player. Review on Philips BDP 2600 Blu Ray Player

This is a basic player with no frills (not even a front digital display), hence less problems too.

I tested 24 blurays on this player (BDP 2600) and all except one played without any issues. The only one which did not play was "Megamind" bluray where it failed miserably, hanging completely and needed to recycle power.

This is actually my second bluray player. My first was a Sony BDP370 which broke after one and a half years of usage. I gave up on repairing it as Sony was charging > 5.3K for fixing it (the optical unit had failed). I got the Philips player at RS 4.9K on Flipkart, which was lower than Sony’s repair charges!

I would say , except for one bluray disc, as mentioned, played much better than Sony, flawless interface with my Harman Kardan AVR system via HDMI. Sony player had many issues interfacing with my AVR, and I had to use 1080i format to get it working. Philips played flawlessly 1080p/24 via my AVR.

The video and audio quality was quite good(after making some changes in the default settings, eg audio to PCM stream) It also played .mpeg videos properly from the USB hard disc. However it does not play .wmv files unlike Sony.The built quality, however, was questionable from the looks of it. Philips gives only 6 months warranty on its DVD players (as against 1 year for Sony). I hope the player works in the long run!