Blu-ray player comparison: price and functionality

snobee said:
I asked the audio visual professionals down the road from me the same question... especially as their shop carries ones for up to R20 000 as well. They said that DVD and Blu-ray players have a huge amount of quality loss between disk and player and player to cable. As much as 70% quality loss on some players. You don't notice this until you have actually watched a good quality system. How true is that I have no idea? 70% quality loss seems exaggerated. I would certainly believe there is quality loss, so I guess better players would minimise this... but I am thinking the problem would hardly be noticiable.
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In my opinion thats total BS.

Disk to player = digital transfer

player to TV (via HDMI) = digital transfer

You cannot lose any quality when transferring data digitally.

However, the quality can of course be impacted by the video decoder in the player. So maybe those have a super duper dedicated piece of silicon that can decode blu-ray better than anything else out there....

Just my 2c saying that's cheap sales talk :erm:
 
Call me a cheapskate but ill consider one when they drop blow 1K. :)
 
Whoever wrote the article of bluray players didn't do their homework

Well let's first get it right. You get analog audio which is mono or stereo. And you get optical, coax, hdmi which is digital ie 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, dts-hd etc etc. The ps3 runs both digital outputs via optical and hdmi. Now hdmi has two versions but both are digital audio. V1 supports a resolution of upto 720p/1080i and V1.3 supports 1080p so be sure what cable you get. V1.3 is backwards compatible.

The PS3 is still the best option as it has a swoppable harddrive so don't be conned into selling yours to get one with a bigger harddrive. Rather just go buy a western digital 500gb notebook hdd and do the swap. Remember to unplug the power first and have the newer update on flash drive ready.

So yip don't be confused by the article. And oh 3D is just a gimmick all it does is split the colouring. Most tvs and plasmas support it already.
 
If you a true HD person an oppo is the one to buy - I have one & it's worth all the money!!

do some reviews on the specs & you will see why
 
I was reading this article and then it suddenly dawned on me... Why do I want to buy a Blueray player? I can just get a Blueray reader for my PC, and then view the BD image on my Mede8er. No need to stress about different features etc.
 
zamicro said:
I was reading this article and then it suddenly dawned on me... Why do I want to buy a Blueray player? I can just get a Blueray reader for my PC, and then view the BD image on my Mede8er. No need to stress about different features etc.
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Because you would losse most if not all the extra benefit or features, so you can then just as well just buy/get a standard DVD or a ripped pirate version from the internet.

I doubt the Mede8ter are BluRay compatible so you still need a BluRay player (for PC) and an added software package to decode the BluRay disk.
 
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If you want HD sound - you'll need more than just a reader for your pc.
 
I am Penguin said:
Because you would losse most if not all the extra benefit or features, so you can then just as well just buy/get a standard DVD or a ripped pirate version from the internet.

I doubt the Mede8ter are BluRay compatible so you still need a BluRay player (for PC) and an added software package to decode the BluRay disk.
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No, I will not lose the quality. I would lose all the other stuff on the disc for which I do not actually care, but I will still get the 720p or 1080p version with full hd audio to play on my mede8er.
 
Park@82 said:
I have however lost any interest in getting one.
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In 2008, the cheapest blu-ray player was a PlayStation 3, which was fortunately the best blu-ray player on the market.

The other blu-ray players were priced at R10000! :eek:

Love blu-ray and always trying to make my collection bigger. ;)
 
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