Comment No Co-ax No coaxial

CNET's 2010 Blu-ray

players chart Samsung BD-C5500 LG BD550 Vizio VBR200W Samsung BD-C6500
LG BD570

CNET ratings
Design 7 7 6 8 7
Features 6 5 7 9 8
Performance 8 8 7 8 8
Overall 7 6.6 6.8 8.4 7.8
CNET Editor 3 4 3.5
Cnet User 3.5 3 3
Amazon 3.74 3.4 4
Alatest(Expert) 4
Alatest(USers) 3.4
Techradar 3.6
Total 52.3
AlaScore 78
BluRayPalyers 4
MKV Support No yes
DVD Upscaling 3.5
User exp on quality

Price (as of 5/26) $145 $142 $190 $200 $197

Features

3D Blu-ray support No No No No No

Wi-Fi $80 dongle No 802.11N 802.11N 802.11N

Onboard memory No No No 1GB No

Profile 2.0 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Streaming services

Netflix Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Amazon On Demand No No No No No

Vudu Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

CinemaNow No Yes No No Yes

YouTube Yes Yes No Yes Yes

Pandora Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Slacker No No No No No

Picasa / Flickr Picasa Picasa Both Picasa Picasa

Weather Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

DLNA compliant Yes No No Yes Yes

Connectivity

HDMI version HDMI 1.3 HDMI 1.3 HDMI 1.3 HDMI 1.3 HDMI 1.3

Optical / Coaxial Optical Coaxial Both Optical Both

Analog outputs Stereo Stereo Stereo 7.1 Stereo

Ethernet Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

USB ports 2 1 1 1 1

SD card slot No No No No No

RS232 No No No No No

Audio decoding
Dolby TrueHD decoding Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Dolby Digital Plus decoding Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
DTS-HD Master decoding Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
DTS-HD HR decoding Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Bitstream output Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

DVD-Audio/SACD No No No No No

Load times (in secs) Samsung BD-C5500 LG BD550 Vizio VBR200W Samsung BD-C6500
LG BD570
MI:III | player on 11.23 12.67 21.7 11.74 13.69

MI:III | player off | quick start n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
MI:III | player off | no quick star 29.74 22.22 28.5 32.01 23.92
POTC | past loading 27.65 29.19 35.35 27.77 30.24
POTC | until movie 85.85 80.87 85.11 84.02 83.57
Spider-Man 3 | until movie 75.62 63.15 72.22 75.65 67.72
Sunshine | chapter skip 26.83 13.58 15.95 27.13 13.71
CNET speed rating 74 93 74 73 89

Blu-ray performance

Video processor unknown unknown unknown unknown unknown

HQV 2.0

Video resolution - part 1 Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass

Video resolution - part 2 Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass

Video resolution - part 3 Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass

Video resolution - part 4 Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass

Film resolution 2:2 Fail Fail Fail Fail Fail

Film resolution 3:2 Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass

Text overlays on film - horiz Fail Fail Pass Fail Pass

Text overlays on film - vert Fail Fail Pass Fail Pass

Multi-cadence 2:2 Fail Fail Fail Fail Fail

Multi-cadence 3:2 Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass

Multi-cadence 2:2:2:4 Pass Fail Fail Pass Fail

Multi-cadence 2:3:3:2 Pass Fail Fail Pass Fail

Multi-cadence 3:2:3:2:2 Pass Fail Fail Pass Fail

Multi-cadence 5:5 Pass Fail Fail Pass Fail

Multi-cadence 6:4 Pass Fail Fail Pass Fail

Multi-cadence 8:7 Pass Fail Fail Pass Fail

Spears and Munsil

Dynamic range high Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass

Dynamic range low Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass

Luma multiburst Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass

Chroma multiburst Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass

Chroma upsampling error: 24p Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass

Chroma upsampling error: 30p Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass

Program material

Ghost Rider | Ch. 6 Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass

MI:III | Ch. 8 Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass

Sunshine | Ch. 2 Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass

Tony Bennett | Ch. 7 Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass

NIN: Live | Ch. 3 Pass Pass Fail Pass Pass

NIN: Live | Ch. 4 Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass

DVD performance Samsung BD-C5500 LG BD550 Vizio VBR200W Samsung BD-C6500

LG BD570
HQV 2.0

Video resolution - part 1 Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass

Video resolution - part 2 Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass

Video resolution - part 3 Fail Fail Fail Fail Fail

Film resolution 3:2 Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass

Film resolution 2:2 Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass

Text overlays on film - horiz Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass

Multi-cadence 2:2 Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass

Multi-cadence 3:2 Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass

Multi-cadence 2:2:2:4 Pass Fail Fail Pass Fail

Multi-cadence 2:3:3:2 Pass Fail Fail Pass Fail

Multi-cadence 3:2:3:2:2 Pass Fail Fail Pass Fail

Multi-cadence 5:5 Pass Fail Fail Pass Fail

Multi-cadence 6:4 Pass Fail Fail Pass Fail

Multi-cadence 8:7 Pass Fail Fail Pass Fail

Program material

Star Trek: Insurrection Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass

Seabiscuit Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass

Invite Them Up Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass

Streaming video quality

Netflix | Lost | Season 5 Good Good Good Good Good

Power consumption
Standby | quickstart off 0.0885 0.0735 0.554 0.1218 0.1392

Standby | quickstart on n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a

Power on | idling 6.9369 8.9997 19.151 8.3303 14.785
Power on | playing movie 12.091 14.652 20.504 13.366 15.308
Annual cost, quick start off $0.81 $0.95 $1.76 $0.92 $1.05

Annual cost, quick start on n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a

PKG_DVD_2_1_08
1_08_VBR200W_1 BD.8.31.151
Firmware when tested BSP-C5500WWB-1010.4 BD.8.31.211.C 1 BSP-C6500WWB-1010.4 .C

Date when tested 5/7/2010 5/14/2010 4/19/2010 5/5/2010 2/24/2010

Panasonic DMP-BD85K
Sony BDP-S570
Oppo BDP-83 PS3 Slim

6 8 9 8 Peach color indicates

7 9 7 9 reference players
8 8 10 9
7.2 8.4 8.6 8.7
3.5 4 4
4.5 3.5 4
4.37 4 4.5 4.5
4.5 4 4.4
5 4.5 4.5
4 4
54.07 57.4
90 98
4.5 4
yes yes

Very good

$205 $205 $500 $300

No Upgradable No Upgradable

Included dongle 802.11N No 802.11G

No 1GB 1GB 120GB

Yes Yes Yes Yes

 Yes Yes No Yes

Yes Yes No No

No No No No

No No No No

Yes Yes No Yes

Upgradable Upgradable No No

No Yes No No

Picasa Upgradable No No

Yes No No No

No Upgradable No Yes

HDMI 1.3 HDMI 1.4 HDMI 1.3 HDMI 1.3

Both Both Both Optical

7.1 Stereo 7.1 Stereo

Yes Yes Yes Yes

2 2 2 2

Yes No No No

No No Yes No

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes Yes Yes
 Yes Yes Yes Yes

No SACD Both No

Panasonic DMP-BD85K
Sony BDP-S570
Oppo BDP-83 PS3 Slim
16.51 15.23 13.69 29.15

7.71 15.93 n/a n/a

24.52 25.85 17.73 45.81
36.38 27.26 29.57 46.59
87.19 62.77 75.21 107.19
68.06 52.37 60.39 68.36
32.52 5.65 11.79 20.03
76 117 100 57

unknown unknown ABT2010 n/a

Pass Pass Pass n/a

Pass Pass Pass n/a

Pass Pass Pass n/a

Pass Fail Pass n/a

Fail Fail Pass n/a

Pass Pass Pass n/a

Pass Pass Pass n/a

Pass Pass Pass n/a

Fail Fail Pass n/a

Pass Pass Pass n/a

Fail Pass Pass n/a

 Fail Pass Pass n/a

Fail Pass Pass n/a

Fail Pass Pass n/a

Fail Pass Pass n/a

Fail Pass Pass n/a

Pass Pass Pass n/a

Pass Pass Pass n/a

Pass Pass Pass n/a

Pass Fail Pass n/a

Pass Pass Pass n/a

Pass Pass Pass n/a

Pass Pass Pass Pass

Pass Pass Pass Pass

Pass Pass Pass Pass

Pass Fail Pass n/a

Pass Pass Pass n/a

Pass Pass Pass n/a

Panasonic DMP-BD85K
Sony BDP-S570
Oppo BDP-83 PS3 Slim

Pass Pass Pass Pass

Pass Pass Pass Pass

Fail Fail Pass Pass

Pass Pass Pass Pass

Fail Fail Pass Pass

Pass Fail Pass Fail

Fail Fail Pass Pass

Pass Pass Pass Pass

Fail Pass Pass Fail

Fail Pass Pass Fail

Fail Pass Pass Fail

Fail Pass Pass Pass

Fail Pass Pass Pass

Fail Pass Pass Pass

Pass Pass Pass Pass

Pass Pass Pass Pass

Pass Fail Pass Pass

 Good Poor n/a Good

0.16 0.128 0.2421 0.36

8.099 6.7383 n/a n/a

10.909 13.181 23.408 75.19
14.776 14.263 24.702 80.9
$1.04 $0.98 $1.72 $5.21

$8.60 $7.27 n/a n/a

BDP83-48-
1.14 M03.R.315 1224 3.15

4/9/2010 2/24/2010 2/23/2010 2/23/2010