What are you looking for the player to actually do? The only thing that I saw that I may not get is the lastest and greatest BD Java.. I think that most of the times the extras arent worth much anyway.

If you want full codec support, analog out, with bitstream, the Samsung and Panasonic players all offer these functions.

If you are talking about the manufacturers shipping incomplete devices, only to upgrade them later, then I think you are going to be disappointed, because I dont think this trend is going to change. I dont really like it either, but more and more computing power is required to get the products to work, and they are getting more and more complex, especially when artificial roadblocks like DRM are added.