MAGNAVOX Blue-Ray for 199

[Triple J]

Today, I saw MAGNAVOX blu-ray for 199 at Walmart. It looks like a pretty descent deal.

[DepotDeserter]

I bought this unit at $299 when it first came out and have been very happy with it.

[BD006]

Are they Profile 2.0 (BD Live) compatible/upgradable?

[Triple J]

Are they Profile 2.0 (BD Live) compatible/upgradable?

I have no idea. But here is the link from AVS forum.
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1026390

[Tennoh]

They are only 1.1 profile. It is exactly the same as the Insignia BR player. Made by the same Chinese manufacturer.

[Viper98]

I'd sooner buy the Sony BDSP100 for $179 at BB

[rottenapple]

I assume you mean the 300 not the 100? I don't think the 100 exists...

[Viper98]

I assume you mean the 300 not the 100? I don't think the 100 exists...

yes
I meant 300

[moose3833]

I'd sooner buy the Sony BDSP100 for $179 at BB

Is that instore only? It's not on their site

[JJpach]

Can't believe the price of BR hardware coming down so fast, it's down to the price point of a popular HDDVD model a year ago (A2 was around $199 last September).

Software is still overpriced tho.

[audit13]

yes
I meant 300

I was looking at the Song bdps300 but it doesn't bitstream TrueHD or DTS-MA

The Magnavox and Insignia will output hd audio streams via hdmi

[greenman456]

I look forward to the usual "Buy the PS3 instead! Help Sony in the console wars." comments.

Wonder if this is the new MAGNAVOX updated version or the first release player?

[JJpach]

I was looking at the Song bdps300 but it doesn't bitstream TrueHD or DTS-MA

BDPS300 was an entry model to penetrate the economy user market, way overpriced with a $549 original tag. Stay away from it if you want the latest BR functions.

[Vinman]

Can't believe the price of BR hardware coming down so fast

Why, Blu-ray is dying and DVD unit sales are increasing relative to BD - Sony is on the verge of driving the format into the ground, and losing out to digital HD.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...downloads.html

There is a sentiment growing that BD has missed the boat - I meet with people and whenever movies are brought up, they start talking about HD movies on SD cards, HD downloads, HD-on-demand, and how expensive Blu-ray movies and hardware is. Not to mention that if you start buying BD movies, then you need replace ALL of the players in your house.

HD-DVD/DVD combo disks were the only hope for a next-generation HD physical media....

[Vinman]

Stay away from it if you want the latest BR functions.

Stay away from them all - I just saw a press release that Panasonic has developed a DivX HD Blu-ray chip that will allow full HD playback of DivX content on next-generation BD players.

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/s...tte.cachetoken

Again, Sony is hurting bad, so they're going to allow the next-gen players to have all the features to drive consumers, even online pirates.