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Blu-Ray Player $159 at Dick Smith - in-Store or Online for $6.95 Postage

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Blu-Ray Player $159 at Dick Smith - in-Store or Online for $6.95 Postage
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inherentchoice on 17/03/2010 - 21:23 dse.com.au (540 clicks)
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Get the most out of your HD tv with this AMTC BD2102 Blu-Ray player for $159 ($20 less than before when it was "save $120"). Let's hope we start seeing more at this price. If you follow the link and click Check Store Stock it seems to be available at almost all locations.

  • Blu-ray playback at content native HD resolution of 1080p⁄1080i⁄720p
  • Selectable DVD up-conversion (720p⁄1080i⁄1080p)
  • HDMI version 1.3 , component video output
  • Dolby® Digital ,dts®-HD, MPEG2⁄4, MPEG4-AVC, H.264, VC-1, BD-Java
  • BD⁄DVD⁄VCD⁄CD⁄CD-R(RW)⁄DVD+R(RW) ⁄Mp3⁄WMA ⁄JPEG Playback,
  • BD Live 2.0, USB⁄Ethernet
  • Full HD 1080P ⁄24p and 60p output, deep colour HBR audio support

As spotted next to a $237 Panasonic model on page 8 of their current catalogue which expires on 30 March 2010.

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  • [Deactivated] on 17/03/2010 - 21:31
    +1

    Wow, blu-ray players have been getting cheap.

    • cakesy on 18/03/2010 - 10:52

      Still, will never ever buy a blu-ray player. The format is even worse than DVD, and has still not seen the popularity of DVDs, and will probably never surpass it.

      • herbie_ford on 18/03/2010 - 23:45

        What??? Format worse then DVD's ok???
        My partner works at a video store and I only get her to borrow blu Ray movies cause afte watching them on my 42" HD tv DVD look to pixilated

      • [Deactivated] on 19/03/2010 - 19:23

        Is there something wrong with you? Blu-rays are incredibly hard to scratch and store ~5 times more than a single layer DVD… What are you talking about?

        The reason people haven't switched to blu-rays (if you don't even have a clue) is because they are disks like DVD's, the benefits of moving from VHS to DVD are higher than from DVD to Blu-ray, so the average consumer doesn't notice much of a difference. But Blu-ray is still far superior to DVD in quality and capacity.

        Once Blu-ray is industry standard, you will switch.

      • inherentchoice on 20/03/2010 - 10:40

        I don't know if you made that comment just to provoke a reaction. But on a HD tv the difference in quality is very very noticable. Yes, it does make DVD's look pixelated.

  • portmac on 17/03/2010 - 21:31

    Geeze, not the prettiest player, but certainly cheap!

    Begs the question what internal PC blu-ray readers are still ~$130 when for $160 you can buy a full player.

  • swimmingtoad on 17/03/2010 - 21:37

    Would the PQ of this be the same as that of the Panasonic?

    • aussman on 17/03/2010 - 22:06

      probably not new model of pana coming out so they will slash existing stock soon

  • mawinmawin on 17/03/2010 - 22:53

    i saw a samsung blueray for 250$ in myers brisbane with 50$ myers gift card. also saw 197$ for a lg in good guys. good to see this kind of price down.

  • wisc on 17/03/2010 - 22:57

    can you use it as a network player? eg play Dolby® Digital ,dts®-HD, MPEG2⁄4, MPEG4-AVC, H.264, VC-1, BD-Java etc files over the network, or is that for the bluray update stuff?

    • [Deactivated] on 17/03/2010 - 23:09

      I think its for BD live.

  • g12345567 on 18/03/2010 - 01:34

    Does this have internal HD audio decoder? I.E. downscale Blu-ray HD audio for those with older amplifiers that do not support/decoded dts®-HD and Dolby TrueHD. If not I assume you will need an amplifier that can decode dts®-HD and Dolby TrueHD to use a cheap player like this.

    • g12345567 on 18/03/2010 - 10:14

      Found the manual for this player. Apparently you use have to use the HDMI cable for the HD audio. If you have older player you need to use the SPDIF coaxial digital cable to output Dolby 5.1/DTS to you surround amplifier and it should downgrade HD audio streams to 5.1/DTS.

  • Housecat on 18/03/2010 - 02:33
    -1

    region-changable too apparently ;)

    • Housecat on 18/03/2010 - 22:28
      +1

      why the negative for letting the community know that this player can play blu-ray discs from any region?

  • bob19 on 18/03/2010 - 03:13

    Does anyone know if it plays divx, mkv and h.264 files? Sometimes manufacturers do not provide all the info in the specs. Did anyone try?

    • [Deactivated] on 18/03/2010 - 08:47

      I believe all Blu-ray players can play h.264 because some blu-rays are encoded in h264. I'm pretty sure it won't play mkv, but not sure about divx.

      • uthmani on 18/03/2010 - 09:30

        I had one of these and returned it because it was noisy. Maybe it was just mine.

      • Testeagle on 18/03/2010 - 09:35
        +2

        In this thread it says it doesn't play divx but you can retag them xvid, even recommends a program.
        http://www.dtvforum.info/lofiversion/index.php/t85057.html

        Quote
        "** Playing DivX files using the AMTC Blu-Ray Player **

        I picked up one of these blu-ray players from DSE and discovered that it baulks on AVI files encoded with divx codec, saying "unsupported format". However, it does quite happily play xvid encoded files.

        As it turns out, the player is compatible with divx files, all you need to do is change the FourCC signature in the AVI file to make it look like XVID instead of DIVX. I recommend the following utility:-

        http://abcavi.kibi.ru/index.htm

        The procedure is to just load the AVI file that won't play.

        Then click on the "Hacks & Tweaks" tab.

        Then pick "XVID" preset in the drop-down menu.

        Now save your changes.

        The previously unplayable file should now work just fine!

        (I assume the reason the player does not offer direct support of divx is due to licensing issues, etc.)"

  • atlas on 18/03/2010 - 09:52

    Just a heads up, although not really applicable to this player, is that most of these players tend to onyl read USB drives formatted in FAT/FAT32. Therefore files greater than 4gb = no no. I got a player which can do mkv, but is subject to the FAT limitation, which is darn annoying.

  • g12345567 on 18/03/2010 - 10:10
    +1

    Check out this thread on Whirlpool forums. Player is sold throghout Europe/UK under various names. In the uk it goes under the name Limit BD-M100 and
    Manufacturers web site with manuals and firmware updates. As well as lots of technical information and region free BD information available on this player.

    http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1405742#r…

  • PainToad on 18/03/2010 - 10:23

    Wow cheap, I would get one if I didn't think optical media is almost dead. Long live online distribution.

    • wisc on 18/03/2010 - 12:40
      +1

      nah i rekon optical media will be around for a minimum of another 10 years… one main driver will be 50GB blu rays used as backups… could be wrong, but online hasnt really ramped up yet, meaning that it will be a while before the mums and dads at home get in on the act…

    • inherentchoice on 18/03/2010 - 18:29

      The other problem is that we've upgraded to HD movies which are so much bigger to download. Once we get fibre to the home then they'll start to phase out. So far Blockbuster and all the other DVD rental places are still getting good business.

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