List of wanted features, help me find a BR player to match

[Medwynd]

After looking at what feels like a hundred players, I rapidly got lost deciding which player I wanted.

Looking for a bluray player that has these features:

- Ethernet hardwired connection, don't care about wireless and would prefer it to not be wireless if it is cheaper

- DLNA that can play videots, it seems like this is pretty impossible to find, but all of my dvd's are already ripped to videots folders

- Amazon video on demand streaming, we don't use netflix streaming but want a good interface to amazons video on demand which we get through amazon prime

- 3D, we have a 3d tv but no glasses yet so this would be a step in the right direction

- DTS-MA & TrueHD, I am hooking this up to an Onkyo TX-SR608 so I dont need it to decode this just pass it through.

- Fast loading, this is almost a necessity because having to wait forever to watch a movie is just horrible

I would appreciate any models you guys can recommend for me to look at.

I was thinking about the PS3 since you can pretty much guarantee its always going to be up to date firmware wise. But it fails most of the other points I am looking for, I hear its not the fastest at loading and it doesn't do Amazon natively, you have to do it through Playon.

Thanks

[PrivatePixel]

Originally Posted by Medwynd

Looking for a bluray player that has these features:

- Ethernet hardwired connection, don't care about wireless and would prefer it to not be wireless if it is cheaper

- DLNA that can play videots, it seems like this is pretty impossible to find, but all of my dvd's are already ripped to videots folders

- Amazon video on demand streaming, we don't use netflix streaming but want a good interface to amazons video on demand which we get through amazon prime

- 3D, we have a 3d tv but no glasses yet so this would be a step in the right direction

- DTS-MA & TrueHD, I am hooking this up to an Onkyo TX-SR608 so I dont need it to decode this just pass it through.

- Fast loading, this is almost a necessity because having to wait forever to watch a movie is just horrible

The following Panasonic models (DMP-BDT110/210/310) should support all of the listed requisites with the exception of the bolded feature. DLNA may be an industry standard, but there's no assurance or guarantee of interoperability among home and mobile devices within a DLNA-defined network.

One possible option for handling the VIDEO_TS folders is a PS3 (or a Windows/Linux/OSX-based media server) in conjunction with PS3MS (PS3 Media Server). There are other non-DLNA options as well.

[Medwynd]

Thanks for pointing them out.

It looks like all three players are essentially the same except that the 210 adds wifi and the 310 adds wifi and 2 hdmi outs. Did I miss any other differences?

Currently I am using SageTV to stream from my media center but I could use a wd live streaming as well. I just didnt want to get 3 devices, once for local files, a roku for internet streaming, and a br player for physical discs.

[hiroo]

Originally Posted by Medwynd

I was thinking about the PS3 since you can pretty much guarantee its always going to be up to date firmware wise. But it fails most of the other points I am looking for, I hear its not the fastest at loading and it doesn't do Amazon natively, you have to do it through Playon.
Thanks

Not sure what you mean by "fails most of the other points," because to me it seems like it meets everything on your list (ethernet, DLNA, 3D, lossless bitstreaming: all yes) except for the Amazon Instant video requirement, for which there is a workaround.

It seems to boot and load pretty fast to me; the main problem is unskippable previews which aren't the fault of the PS3.