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The Insignia Connected Blu-ray Player (NS-BRDVD3) provides nearly all of the features needed for a Blu-ray player, at an especially attractive price point.
The player, coming from Best Buy’s in-house Insignia brand, sports 1080p capability, an HDMI output and access to both BD-Live and Netflix streaming, for only $149.99- a price that would have been inconceivable as recently as a year ago. Those with ultra-high-end home theaters may seek a more expensive model, but for everyone else, the Insignia player does everything it needs to do.
The Insignia player easily upconverts standard DVDs, and of course Blu-ray discs look great on it. The player is easy to set up and the on-screen interface not hard to navigate.
There are only two significant drawbacks to the product. One, it lacks Wi-Fi capability, making it much harder to connect to the BD-Live and Netflix functions if, say, your Internet router is in one room and your TV in another. (The next model up from Insignia, the Advanced Blu-ray player (NS-WBRDVD), does sport Wi-Fi.)
And secondly, the Blu-ray drive makes a lot of noise. Every time you fast forward, rewind, or press play, the driver is way louder than it should be, especially since I assumed this was a problem solved in the opening years of the DVD revolution.
But those problems aside, the Insignia Connected Blu-ray player gets the job done.
www.bestbuy.com/insignia
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