With the Blu-ray format now experiencing a similar acceptance rate as DVD when it was rolled out, the consumer electronics community is now fully supporting the format with a variety of hardware.

That support includes inexpensive products made for big-box stores, big name manufacturers that fill the middle market, and the high-performance channel.

High-performance products typically start off as mainstream products but are redesigned with better digital-to-analog converters (DACs), more powerful DSP engines, more robust power supplies, heavier housing with more dampening, circuit path modifications, improved error reduction technologies, and improvements to the disc/tray loading mechanisms.

We’ve rounded up a group of high-performance Blu-ray players that range in cost from several hundred dollars to several thousand.

Click for 11 Luxury Blu-ray Players.

Robert Archer - Senior Editor, CE Pro

Bob is a dedicated audiophile who has been writing about A/V for Electronic House sister publication CE Pro since 2000.