Anyone looking to buy Blu-Ray player would know, how difficult it is to choose one from dozens of features these players offers other than the basic need of playing Blu-Rays DVD's. Most of the consumers will be upgrading their existing DVD players, so one would like to have all the feature set that their old dvd player supports.
Here are some of the basic features that are expected from Blu-Ray-Player
- Bluray and DVD playback
- HDMI ( To connect to HDTV )
- Digital audio either optical or coax ( To connect to the old home theater system that does not have HDMI )
- Audio Codecs ( Dolby, DTS, AC3..)
If you are the one who has lot of media files collection compared to physical disks then you may wish to have
- USB support ( To connect external hard drives or USB drives )
- Different video codec's support ( Divx, Xvid, rm, wmv...)
If you have lot of videos that are captured from latest HD camcorder and if you want to play from your bluray player, then it has to support codecs like AVCHD
If you are online internet media addict, then you might expect to have
- Netflix support
- Pandora
- Amazon video on demand
- DLNA ( to watch media on your PC / mobile phone)
and to access the above internet services you need built-in Wi-Fi out the need to buy an extra external Wi-Fi USB adapter.
If you are a born videophile looking for some advanced features then you need
- 3:2/2:2 Pull-Down
- 24p playback support
If you need all the above features then you need to buy one Blu-Ray and then a media player like Roku / PopCorn Hour
Recently LG released a new Blu-Ray player combining all the media player features into the Bluray player. Checkout
LG's BD570 which has got all the features mentioned above, Also
BD590 has internal 250GB hard disk and you can just copy the media files directly to the player.
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