hairy_hen said:

If you can afford it, I definitely recommend getting an Oppo player, because the company's support for their products is fantastic and you'll get top of the line performance for a fraction of the price from any other high end manufacturer. Otherwise, the PS3 is widely respected for its Bluray capabilities and will give better results than many standalone players out there.

This is great advice. If the idea of spending $500 on a Blu-ray player doesn't make you choke, the Oppo BDP-93 is the way to go. Oppo's latest firmware adds 24fps playback for film-based DVDs, which is really nice if you have a lot of DVDs and something that pretty much no player supports because it requires top-flight video processing (like only the Oppo can do). The PS3 would be next on my list.

I really like my Oppo, but I've gotten to the point where I'm sick of dealing with FBI warnings, copyright warnings, commentary disclaimers, and forced trailers (there are literally 5 or 6 trailers on the remastered Total Recall BD). I'm experimenting with ripping my BDs (losslessly) to MKV, storing them on a media server, and using a dedicated media player to access them.