Mechblue wrote:isiolia wrote:
Not terribly so. You can also buy them for $90-120, making a warranty possibly too large a chunk of the purchase price to be worth it.
Depends on the place. I'd feel better having spent a bit on a warranty when it stops playing blu-ray all of a sudden. Which according to most reviews happens after a few months.
A friend told me once common computers start coming with blu-ray players then it is safe to buy a home unit with out worrying.
PCs will likely never come with BD-ROMs standard because the direction software distribution is going is direct download, not onto higher capacity media. They're already readily available, and common enough for some brands/types of machine (Sony puts them in a lot of theirs, unsurprisingly).
What I'd seen when looking for a low cost player to supplement my PS3s wasn't that there were widespread reliability issues.
Compatibility sometimes, but more often than not issues people had weren't related to Blu-ray playback at all, but rather things like Netflix or file playback.
I know for my family, every Blu-ray player we've gotten still works just fine - for non PS3s that'd only be about a year and a half, but still.
Early players may well have had problems, but that'd stem more from BD playback being fairly CPU intensive...for the time. At one point, pushing 1080p video was hard. These days a cell phone can do it.
