What is the best Blu-ray player? In our opinion, the best Blu-ray players for a
budget-minded home theater are those that offer you the maximum number of
A/V entertainment possibilities that can be squeezed into a single component, at the lowest price. Imagine a single home theater
source component that plays the latest Full HD 1920 x 1080 Blu-ray Disc movies, up-converts standard 480i DVDs to 1080p, plays music CDs, and can
even join forces with your high speed broadband Internet connection for BD-Live or to view instant streaming Netflix movies!
To get the best possible picture and sound quality,
the Blu-ray player should be connected using a single HDMI cable to an HDMI input on the home theater receiver along with any other HDMI A/V source components such as a HDTV receiver and/or video game system.
Obviously, you will also need to run an Ethernet cable from your home network to the back of the Blu-ray player. If your HDMI switching home theater receiver upconverts all video to 1080p output via HDMI, you should be able to send a single (perhaps quite) LOOONG HDMI cable out of the back of the surround sound AV receiver to an HDMI input on the projector.
