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14th March 2010

Toshiba BDX2000 Blu-ray disc player

Toshiba has joined in Blu-ray market with their sleek offering BDX2000 disc player with a pull-down front panel that hides the disk tray, display, controls and an SD card slot.

Behind the flap there are power, pause, stop, play and eject buttons to the left, with the disc tray in the centre and the dot matrix display at the right. The display is visible when the flap’s closed, and the overall effect is pretty good.

The BDX2000 supports BD Live, linked through its Ethernet port. In fact, that’s all it supports – you can’t update the firmware over the internet, and have to download new firmware releases then burn them to disc instead.

The main menu is straightforward, and uncluttered, with a set of icons that are selected using the remote, which itself feels a little plasticky, and not quite weighty enough. Delving deeper into the menus, there are some odd quirks. Where most BD Live players have a simple setting to enable or disable the facility, on the BDX2000 it’s buried under custom network preferences, alongside such consumer-scaring options as IP addresses.

There are, though, some other useful options not found on many players, like audio test tones, and adjustments for relative volume levels, as well as adjustable audio delay for the HDMI output, which helps to ensure perfect sync.

Another niggle – common to many players – is that there’s no built in memory for BD Live, so you’ll have to add your own SD card. You can also view images and play music – MP3 and WMA – from a card, which is handy, but though the BDX2000 will play DivX up to version 6 in standard definition, it won’t do so from a memory card. That content, you’ll have to burn to disc.

Although it’s a little slow in operation, and missing out on features like network media playback, the BDX2000 does have price in its favour. Even so, competition is getting tougher at this end of the market. If you value options like audio test tones and delay settings, it’s worth a look, but if you want extensive media playback functionality, you’ll have to go elsewhere.

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