Comments on: Get an Insignia Blu-ray player for $129.99

Best Buy's house-brand player is strictly no frills, and it requires a firmware update right out of the box. But if you want a home-theater upgrade on the cheap, look no further.

[chuber452]

The Insignia NS-2BRDVD Blu-ray player is a great BD player. I just picked a new (not open box) NS-2BRDVD at the local Best Buy yesterday on clearance for $99.00. The update was easy to download and write onto a CD as an ISO image. The NS-2BRDVD has an ethernet and USB port on the rear for updating to a profile 2.0, (have not tried to use yet). Overall, I've been waiting for the BD players to come down in price to the $100.00 range, and now it's starting to happen. There is no reason in today's market place, that the producers of BD players should set prices at $200.00 and up. If you want to be number one, sell alot of product at a low price, eg. (WAL-MART)

[the_iceman]

somehow I doubt the head to head performance & feature set are equal from a bare bones 99$ insignia player to that of say a sony or panasonic player.

I'll wait it out some more, & always stay clear of these crappy brands-even if it were 20 $

[rollstwenties]

You can get a Magnavox Blu-ray 1.1 Player for $99 from Sears (refurbished). Actually, I doubt that a Panasonic player would be significantly better. The Insignia brand is usually made up of parts from multiple companies, like Sony, Panasonic, Toshiba, etc. Now, reliability might be an issue, because they aren't put together in the same place, but as far as performance, I'd bet it's about equal. The truly high-performing Blu-ray player (where there is a noticeable increase in response and speed ) is the PS3.