Philips 4K UHD Dolby Vision Blu-ray Player w/ Built-in Wireless LAN and Streaming Apps (BDP7502)

For the price this is probably the best player on the market. I bought it to replace a clunky PS4 and to be able to play 4K HDR films. It feels well built and has all the features you may want. Dolby Atmos, Dolby Vision, etc. The user interface is not very sophisticated but it is functional. I havent tried any of the internet features which I will never use. Compared to the PS4 discs start playing much faster. Also with the PS4 it seems every couple of minutes a frame or two are skipped. The Phillips can play 4K steadily like a tank. Im sitting about 6 feet from the player and my only complaint is that I can hear the disc spinning if the room is quiet and the volume is low. Its not really a deal breaker and at normal movie volumes this noise is inaudible. Im very happy with the upgrade from the PS4 and Im excited to be able to watch movies in 4K HDR.

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Had this player for about a week now. As far as the player itself the picture is superb on UHD discs, especially with HDR10, and upscales regular blu-ray discs very nicely. UHD Guardians Galaxy vol 2 was outstanding! After figuring out the audio options it is capable of Dolby Atmos. Sounds great! Took a few days to figure out the audio menu, not very intuitive. The audio options are listed on the right in two columns with no indications on how to pick them. Left hand column is the options and the right hand column is the actual options for each option on the left. I put this in here to save you some time and frustration. It only has Netflix and Youtube, so not really a big streaming option. I have a Roku so no big deal for me. Once it has the Dolby Vision Firmware upgrade(not yet) it will check all the boxes for me. At this price, a good value. Happy so far!

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Great unit, cant wait for the Dolby Vision upgrade. Plays 4K Blu-ray movies well, interface is simple and intuitive, and the Netflix app works well. Not sure if its my network cable, but for some reason Netflix seems to refuse to play Stranger Things 2 in HDR or even 4K. It seemed like it was stuck at 720p, but my Chromecast sure does fine @4K with Dolby Vision.

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I bought this when the price dropped to $150. I was neck and neck with this and an Xbox one to use as a 4k player. The price drop made the choice easy. The good: picture quality is outstanding. The sound is great but I took a bit to configure. My TV defaults to PCM once I set everything to bitstream it worked great. There is a separate HDMI audio out but the sound is great with the one cable configuration. The bad: slow startup. There is no stretch feature so all 4k movies play with big black bars at the top and bottom. This is probably the best bang for the buck in a 4k player in 2007

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This player works great on my LG 65" OLED TV. Easy to watch movies in 4K Ultra HDR . The only downside is the cooling fan inside of this unit makes more noise than I would like. In quite parts of a movie I can hear the fan running.

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Overall a nice size and good picture quality. The picture was not as good as I expected, given the 4K input & display, but that could be as much the quality of the movie. This player does come with a free 4K movie Creed, with Sylvester Stallone. Non 4K Blu-Ray disks look like they are upconverted a bit. I was surprised to find that this Blu-Ray player had better WiFi reception than my TV or tablet. It would stream Netflix or YouTube when other devices would not. However, this does not include any kind of browser, so if your WiFi connection requires you to confirm agreements on a webpage you will not be able to connect.

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If the remote and graphics were better I would gladly give this fine product a 5 star rating. Looking at the Samsung 8500 its remote is even worse so this seems to be the norm in this price range.The set up after updating the firmware was a snap but the graphics were pretty washed out and unimpressive however they were simple and easy to understand. I am using a 65" Sony 900C 4K 3D LED TV, Marantz NR1506 AV Receiver with a ORB SS 8 speaker system with dual subwoofers so you know what my point of reference is when I talk about the video and audio performance of this player. With that said this player if I were to rate just video and audio alone is a 5. It has played everything I have tried to date effortlessly although total time to start a 4K DVD is on the slow side even with the energy saver system disabled. Doesnt bother me and unless you are into instant gratification you wont be bothered by it as well. I ended up using the auto everything run mode and think in my case it works perfectly. Sometime less is more. 4K disk performance is inconsistent so be advised. My first 4K DVD I played was Star Trek Beyond and to be frank I was not that impressed with the video ( but the sound was thrilling) as it did not look better then the some up scaled Blu Ray DVDs I have seen. But then I played Warcraft and wow the video matched the audio and it was a real treat. The mechanical functions of this player are solid and quite and makes me think this will be a reliable unit. Nice. Steaming worked flawlessly as I do not have the 4K option with my Netflix it was nice to see it streamed without it. Seemed to stream 4K on YouTube without a hitch. Regular DVDs looked very good with no artifacts and of course Blu Rays 2D and 3D DVDs looked excellent as one would have every reason to expect. Nice touch when playing non 4K DVDs is the ability to fine tune luminance and color as well as sound perimeters. Can help make older DVDs really come to life. Got to say again how fantastic this player reproduces movie sound tracks. Better than any player I have used to date. My biggest gripes with the remote are as follows: 1. Lots of small buttons poorly identified. 2. The master function control pad feels cheap and clicky when used. It compares badly when compared to a Roku for example when used for Netflix or YouTube scanning. To be fair if Philips was going to cut corners somewhere I guess this would be the best place because most of us will end up using a universal learning remote for the basic functions as I have. Would I buy it again? Absolutely. Would I recommend you consider buying one? You bet. 2/17/17 undate: Found out that on my copy of Top Gun Blu Ray I had audio only when I tried to play some of the special features. This is one of my older Blu Ray DVDs so this may have something to do with it. No problems with 4K DVD special features and if I find a solution I will up date. Not a big deal for me but thought everyone should know. This could be a problem unique to my unit and I would not return it for repair for this reason I can get along without this feature just fine. Might even get fixed with the some future update as I suspect its a software glitch. If this should be the case I will update again.

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I bought this to use as a 4K player instead of my xbox one x since this player supports Dolby Vision. After updating the firmware out of the box, the Dolby Vision works perfectly and looks amazing. Only issue I’ve seen so far is it stutters some while watching 3D. Looks like I’ll stick to the Xbox for 3D viewing but for 4K blu ray this is the machine I’ll use. Great price and seems to be the best kept secret when it comes to Dolby Vision players.

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