I haven’t seen many reviews of the Philips BD player, which is weird. There have been tons on the Samsung player, of course, because it was the first. But the Panasonic and Philips were up next, and I’ve seen some mention of the Panasonic, but not much about the Philips. I guess CNET was reading my mind, because they recently took a gander at the Philips and gave it a 6.3 out of 10, or “Good”.

Basically, the Philips gets knocks for not doing what all the other BD players don’t do. It doesn’t decode TrueHD or DTS HD Master soundtracks. Plus, it’s expensive compared to the PS3 - the Philips goes for an MSRP of $1000, while you can get a PS3 with HDMI 1.3 for $500.

Other than some audio issues, the Philips is an excellent player. The picture quality is very good. It also has a good remote, and good DVD upconversion. So you can’t really go too wrong with this player. Except, well, the PS3 does the same for much less.

Philips BDP9000 Blu-ray Player Review