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I've had the BD-P 2500 for over a year now, w/ no problems. (None of the problems that many others have had: no difficulty updating the firmware; no problem w/ the initial netflix registration, no particular problem being finicky about reading discs.) Picture quality great (as I'd expect from any blu-ray player).
One very frustrating thing though: rewinding and fast-forwarding aver very time consuming: If you're watching a disc and miss a word or two and just want to zip back 30sec, it takes me an add'l 30sec or so all together. Maybe I'm spoiled by how well DVRs rewind, but it's quite frustrating. For example, every press of Rewind and FastForward take about a second to take effect (and you're not sure if it actually noticed your button-press). [This is distinct from tedious FF/Rew on netflix, which is also a pain but that the fault of netflix's streaming protocol.]
As others have noted, the remote has some weird buttons (no big deal), but there are other little issues: If you power up the player to watch netflix, and there happens to be a disc already in the player, it will take its time to start up the disc, and there aren't any button-presses to get you out of it, not even "stop" or "bring me to the main netflix-vs-dvd menu". (I even had one disc where I had to wait through one entire preview (30sec) before it would let me press 'stop' on the disc, so I could fire up netflix. Sigh.)
Overall: good basic player, but a better FF/Rew would've gone a long way for an extra star. If I were buying a new player, I'd probably take one with quicker response on those buttons.
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