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there was a time when a blu-ray player was a big deal they cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars and promised the best image quality you would ever see now people bought cats spending just a hundred bucks or one and are waiting for the next big thing 4k as we count down to the release of 4k blu-ray at the end of 2015 we're in this weird holding pattern that leads to blu-ray players like the BD PS 5500 and 109 dollars this still counts as a budget player and it offers a lot of cool new features the best is PlayStation now connect a PlayStation 4 controller and you have access to Sony's game streaming service while it costs extra to rent games it makes his play a pretty good option for a den or holiday house yes 55 is pretty bare-bones otherwise with a nondescript design and only an eject button and power on the front no play button or display to be seen you will need the remote control for this one but one of my favorite parts of the play is its redesigned interface instead of the old XMB and it's really long list of apps you now have access to everything you need from one page it's much easier to use picture quality is as excellent as you'd expect and even better than the sony models from last year and the ability to transcode audio from DTS to Dolby is of a great help to people who own sound bars well it's now technically the company's flagship the S 5500 is not the best player Sony could possibly make the one feature it misses out on is dual core processing which in this predominantly streaming world cuts the wait time on Netflix for example to mere seconds without it this performs similarly to other blu-ray players at the price but can't hold a candle to a Roku player while this machine will likely have competition from Samsung this year at $109 u.s. it's a really good deal this is ty Pendlebury for cnet.com you