Website info says:
Soniq Blu-Ray Player
- Plays DivX And DivX Plus HD (H.264/.MKV) Video Up To 1080p
- HDMI Output
JB-Hifi Soniq BluRay Player 1080p HDMI for$99!
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why? personal experience, reliable reviews? think its a bit harsh to say without backing it up!
ahhh, the anonymity of the net, allows you to say anything without any backing up at all!
Region free?
If this is region free, I'm all over it. But I doubt it will be. Whoever can come up with a region free blu ray player is going to sell a lot of units!
Try this:
turn on
open tray
enter 97350 on remote
followed by region code you need such as 1 (for region 1 dvd and region a bluray)
hit ok
close tray with disc in driveDisclaimer: I am not sure that it will work, but I read it somewhere…
take another region disc in for a test and ask the rep for the remote GRIN input code and see what happens :)
Kogan sell a Region free BluRay Player.
Yeah, it does, but I am not too sure about the quality of either of the two players.
isn't that only DVD region free?
I have the older model of this player (QPB301B) and it works well. My model is not region-free but this one (I think it is QPB302B) is if you put the code mentioned above but it only works for DVDs.
I beg to differ. It is region free for Blu rays as well.
Region A =1
Region B = 2
Region C =3Please google it, or read http://www.dtvforum.info/index.php?showtopic=72974
Cheers,
You can still get the AMTC Blu-ray Player for $95 from DSE, which can be made region free. If you want to look at another cheaper region free player.
This one, the DSE, the Allure - all much the same Broadcom reference design, knocked out in China by Taiwanese companies and badged for the retailer. Main difference seems to be in the choice of audio outputs provided. (toslink? analog 7.1?)
They make great hi-def media players. Its just a pity they will not stream from over the built-in ethernet.
BTW, this is region-free (ie region 0) for DVD, but there is no region-free BD as such. You have to manually change the region each time you insert a BD that needs it. Better than nothing.
JB HIFI was selling this for $96 last month. According to the previous deal
I don't understand why some players, like this one, don't have optical audio out. The previous model does. Why would they do that?
it's known as HDMI and it does sound.
I do not believe the Neg is warranted, you should have just noted it without the neg.
I believe it is warranted, and it's known as free speech. If your's is a valid reason, why do most other models provide optical out? Not everyone has a surround sound system that takes HDMI.
Pretty much every surround-sound amp has coaxial s/pdif input though, as well as optical. They do the same thing.
These players retail for $99.
After GST, retail margin, distribution, wholesaler, importer, duties, shipping, DVD/Blue-ray patent and software license fees have been deducted, that leaves $19 at the factory gate for parts, manufacturing and profit.
A bare SATA Blu-ray drive costs $14, leaving about $4.99 for everything else.Adding one more RCA socket (they already have several) for co-ax 5.1 costs 1 cent (¥0.05) compared to 10 cents for an optical toslink socket. You do the maths.
definitely a cheap price for a blu ray player, but i wouldn't use a soniq product if they paid me