Looking for an inexpensive Blue ray player

I second yamaha.  The aventage bd 1060 features balanced analalog output and you are buying a lot for the money.
I have had the yamaha bd-s677 for the past 3 years, love it for sound and picture, but mostly the sound through the analog outputs...it sounds much better than my msb dac.
I recently have tried the sony h1, kept it for three weeks and sent it back because of audio.  So compressed, flat, same as the bottom of the line 2008 sony dvd player i still have.  To play cds, you have to have the screen on and gracenot because there's no display on the unit to select tracks.
No comparison with yamaha on sonics.  With that said, it could make a nice transport with its rigid chassis, i think that's what sony intended it to be, and it does offer excellent video.

mesch, the new sony uhp-h1 is really an old 2010 blu-ray player in a more rigid chassis.  It is so not "premium" that they just dropped the price to $200.  After having tried it continuously for 3 weeks, i would not even get it at $200.

Super duper.   Also, the yamaha has two usbs, one in the back, the other on the front.  So if you have very hd files (dsd 5.6, 192/24 or even 384/24), you can play them nicely from a thump drive or hard drive.

mesch, your impressions on the Yamaha?

The only thing that yamaha could do is improve the firmware to enable streaming tidal, spotify, netflix and the like. I don’t like having to stream with a roku.