Harman Kardon BDP-1 Blu-ray Disc Player
Harman Kardon BDP-1 Blu-ray Disc Player Review
Well, let me agree with the previous reviews, it looks like they have some polemics HK. My experience is with the other art I have another Blu-ray Player, LG BD300 highly valued, and while it is great machine, with the plethora of links and Netflix offers on-board, HK definitely has an advantage when it comes to picture and sound quality.
If this thing is connected to Harman receiver (I have 3490) and big TV (I have 60pg60) sound and picture will leave you breathless. TheDifference, because it is always with high quality machinery that is noticeable when all the elements of the signal chain is decent quality. In this unit, all efforts to visual / audio experience. Blu-Ray of Celine show (which is great, both visually and acoustically) was played and sounded and looked like never before!
I can not share other reviewers complained about "slowness" of the device. Again, I have LG BD300 which is highly rated for its rapid loading, and so I was expecting (based onRatings), some much slower timing of BDP-1. Well, if you stay with stop-watch and time, it can be a bit slower (I do not time), but for normal use, I can not detect a significant difference. When I sit down to watch movies, it would be 20 seconds or load 24 to make no difference to me.
In short, if a decent TV and sound system, get it. The picture is worth a thousand words.
