dark_jedi said:

Hey Guys I just wanted to ask 1 more time what Blu-ray players do you all like? I have no choice now but to get a new one, I can no longer test our BD50's and we have NOTLD68 coming and it will need testing big time, and now it is started to have a hard time reading retail BD50's as well, so it is about to shit for good lol, so what players do you guys like that load fast and can read these projects we do?

I would like 3D but I don't think any Company supports "checkerboard" output anymore, my Panasonic Player now does but as I said it is almost dead! so if you guys know of any that support that type 3D playback as well that would be sweet but I doubt it.

Thanks

Hey DJ,

It appears that the only company that supports the "checkboard" output is Panasonic. Here is a list of Panasonic models which have been verified as of 2015 to include this output:

DMPBDT100
DMPBDT110
DMPBDT210
DMPBDT215
DMPBDT220
DMPBDT230
DMPBDT300
DMPBDT310
DMPBDT320
DMPBDT350

I did a quick look over on Amazon and found that they have a new DMPBDT230 (2013 model) which is region free for a little over $100. In addition someone asked on the product page aboout checkerboard output and it was confirmed that it does support it. If this is true, this maybe your best bet and the region free ability is the icing on the cake.

http://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-DMP-BDT230-Smart-Blu-Ray-Player/dp/B00AYB3OMG/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1434480781&sr=8-4&keywords=Panasonic+3D+blu-ray+players

As for me, I agree with the PS3 being a good all around player but I personally have a stand alone Sony player to handle movies and reserve the PS3 for game playing only. I might also add that all of the Team Blu projects that I have, have been successfully on the 2 players above and an older Samsung player as well without any issues to bring up. I hope this helps.

-VT