The Philips BDP9000 Review thread

[Jim]

Tyler10,

I ordered mine on Sept. 9th, and when I called I also gave her my specific order # and she used that to look it up and confirm that I would still be getting mine from the October 25th shipment. And less than 24 hrs later I got the email telling me that it had been postponed.

But all is well, I made some calls, BestBuy said they would be getting the Philips but did not know when, and then I called the local Walmart and they said they had 3 in stock and ready to sell. So I now have one hooked up and tested with some clips from Underworld: Evolution and it works great. Takes about 17 seconds from pushing the close door button until the movie comes on the screen, but it looks great and it is loading and playing no glitches right out of the box. I've also quickly run through some of the 'previews' on the Underworld blu-ray disk, and also put in a regular DVD and they just load and play like they should. And if you go to the scene selections it takes maybe 5 or 6 seconds to start the selected scene.

And I know what some of the others on this forum say about people who buy their home theater equipment from Walmart, but hey, they had the Philips in stock and ready to go, and also $100 less than Amazon who said they would not be able to ship until the end of December so I don't think it really matters where you buy it as long as they have the product that you want. And I think I will be happy with the Philips for a few years until the prices come down and then I can think about upgrading to a higher quality firm such as Pioneer or whom ever might be in the market at that point. But I doubt I will be giving ANY Sony product a really close look for quite a while at this point.

Anyway, I have Blu-ray disks to watch, so I'll be signing off now. If you all get tired of waiting for Sony to release their player, give the Philips some consideration. Then make a few calls and see if a store near you has it in stock and ready to go.