Are gaming consoles bad movie players? What Blu-ray player to get?

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Originally Posted by Midnight Rambler

Correct. When it comes to playing a disc, an up-to-date (firmware-wise) PS3 is still among the most reliable of players.

As far as the OP's disc problems, I'm not convinced they are "player-related". Before buying a new Blu-ray player to try to "fix" the problems, I'd try the discs on a friend/family/etc.'s player just to make sure the problems aren't with the discs themselves.

When blu-ray came out I went with the PS3 and it never had any problems with disks and got a firmware update to the latest profiles where as I know a lot of profile 1.0 players you had to upgrade to get the next profile. It was the best decision I made.

I remember that some disks did have issues with certain players and had to have firmware updates and at one point I believe it was one of the transformers disks that some had to have replaced cause the players could not play the disk (can't remember the specifics) but the PS3 just played it without issue.

The only part of the PS3 that bugs me is 3D disks with Dolby TrueHD, They never added Dolby Lossless support to 3D. It does not matter to much since I got a 4k player now but the PS3 lasted me a while and no issues at all.