I'm going to reserve my judgement on this. I appreciate why you're mentioning this but I don't necessarily agree with your assertion that manufacturers are making huge profets on these things rather some company's are prepared to take massive shortcuts when it comes to quality control and manufacturer of these devices.
Warnings have been posted in our local papers computer column recently about this sort of thing, how such cheap devices have been known to "Catch Fire", not last as long as the more expensive device and so on. I bought one of the cheap Aldi DVD players for $50.00 quite some time back, that device no longer works but the Panasonic player I paid $300.00 still works as far as I know, certainly the Pioneer I paid $700.00 certainly works and there's one hell of a difference in the quality even between the Panasonic and the Pioneer, can't verify the video so much but I certainly can the audio, far better decoding circuitry used, faster at loading DVD'S, quieter transport etc. On 22/11/2011, at 9:21 AM, R Nelson wrote: > > > Perhaps you should have bought a Soniq B100 Blue ray player from JB HI-FI. > > It will play formats that a lot of the more expensive blue ray players can > not handle. > > It includes ether net connection and USB connection so you can directly > connect an external disk drive containing your AVIs and MKVs. > > The picture and sound is as good as you will get on players costing ten times > as much. > > Also, if you enter a special code in the setup, it will become a player that > will play disks from any region. > > And for all of this, us lucky people in Australia have to pay only $90 at JB > HI-FI. > > Which probably tells us something about how much the other well known brands > are gouging out of the unsuspecting public. > > Bob Nelson > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dane trethowan" <[email protected]> > To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 2:28 AM > Subject: Playing Bluray discs > > >> Hi! >> >> I now have a number of these in my collection, not many but I'm in no doubt >> that the "Not Many" total will expand to something like "Quite A Few" in the >> not to distant future. >> >> There's nothing worse than having a small Bluray collection and no player to >> play them on so I started shopping. >> >> I tried one of the cheap Samsung players, seemed to work well however I had >> to wait! quite lengthy periods for the machine to "Boot". >> >> A friend of mine suggested what should have been very obvious at the start >> of this exercise, I had a HP Entertainment PC which just happens to feature >> a Bluray capable drive so why not play the movies on that? >> >> as it happens the machine can be hooked up easily to my surround-sound via >> the use of a HDMI cable from the HDMI port of the PC to a HDMI port on my >> surround-sound receiver so I get all the great benefits of Bluray High >> Definition surround-sound audio as well as the video, well I don't directly >> benefit from the video but I'm sure you get my drift. >> >> anyone once plugged in and set up I was pleasantly surprised, computer >> handles the discs far faster than does the Samsung, I'm so disgusted with >> the Samsung to be honest that I'll be taking the player back from where I >> bought it from and that's something I very rararely do. Perhaps the $800.00 >> Samsung player would have been faster though at $800.00? Well that's nearly >> what I paid for this HP Entertainment PC, I've pasted the specs as follows >> for your interest. >> <snip> >> product name: DV6-2119tx >> product number: wf606pa >> Processor: 1.6ghz Core I7 720QM (6mb cache). >> memory: 4gb (Max 4gb). >> Graphics: nvidia gt230m (1gb dedicated ram). >> display: 15.6in (1366x768). >> hard drive: 640gb (5400rpm). >> Optical drive: Blueray RW+dvd Super Multi. >> modem: 56kbps fax/modem. >> Network: 10/100/1000mbps. >> Wireless: 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1. >> Sound: SRS Premium Sound (Altec Lansing speakers). >> Built inn digital tv tuner. >> keyboard/trackpad: standard keyboard plus numeric keypad, multitouch >> trackpad. >> slots: pc card (expresscard 54/34) integrated card reader >> (sd/mmc/ms/mspro/xd). >> ports: 4 usb 2.0 (1 shared with ESata), VGA, HDMI, IEEE1394 (firewire), RJ11 >> (network)/rj45 >> (modem), 2 headphone out, microphone in, consumer ir, digital antenna. >> operating system: windows 7 Home premium 32 bit. >> Also includes Targus premium leather carry case >> <snip> >> >> Now obviously that was a second-hand bargain I got myself for a grand, talk >> about give away <smile>. >> >> I chose this model because it had the built-in video tuner which works a >> treat with Windows Media Centre, I purchased a Windows 7 64-bit upgrade kit >> for an additional $30.00. >> >> This model is around 12 months old and the later models lack some features >> such as the video tuner, fax modem etc which made this machine even more >> attractive still, only real problem with it is the battery life which is >> very small and yep! the later models of HP have this problem dealt with but >> I figured that as I'm usually near a power outlet then battery life wouldn't >> worry me all that much and in any case, if I wanted portable power I had >> plenty of other things to do the job here like the Asus EEEPC Netbook etc. >> >> sent from my HP Powerhouse Notebook. >> >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> [email protected] > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [email protected] To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [email protected]
