Is this a good BD player?

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 08 Aug 2009, 11:58

Yeah, true...

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 08 Aug 2009, 12:02

Freeview HD is coming remember Salty and Freesat is a lot of expensive for what amounts to err. 2 channels. I'm pretty sure ITV HD isn't 24/7 too.

At the time I was interested but that's in part because of it's future support of BBC iPlayer (no word of when it's actually coming though). Now Freeview HD is coming (which will also support BBC iPlayer but through Broadband), frankly Freesat is dead to me. I already have a perfectly good aerial, hopefully it's fine for Freeview HD too. I've not read anywhere you'll need a new aerial.

Although for Grim I can appreciate he can get Freesat HD "in a TV" now, whereas those won't be until next year for Freeview HD. Freeview HD boxes will be first around Xmas.

Grim: All you have is the "single" signal sent out of the dish split off into separate rooms. This is a very common thing to do (when I lived at my Dad's I had the same) and the RF cable as you've noted only accepts Mono. You need to convert the dish so it physically allows two different tuner signals/channels to be sent out of the Sky box at the same time. The current wiring you have will become redundant in your bedroom.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 08 Aug 2009, 12:44

It sounds like we may need another LNB and new cables - TBH I dont know how many outputs the current one has as it was an older Sky Digital installiation in 2005-ish (not Sky+)... so it *might* only have one.

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 08 Aug 2009, 12:46

I Have Sky HD and it's glorious (and expensive) would be interested in freeview HD for the bedroom,how many HD channels are expected for it?

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 08 Aug 2009, 19:30

Hey,
That TV has 24p Playback (or "24p Smooth Film" or something like that), what difference does this make when watching a DVD/BD, just that it plays at the proper speed so PAL/NTSC no longer apply?

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 09 Aug 2009, 00:01

grim_tales wrote:Hey,
That TV has 24p Playback (or "24p Smooth Film" or something like that), what difference does this make when watching a DVD/BD, just that it plays at the proper speed so PAL/NTSC no longer apply?

24p eliminates pal/ntsc judder,however there is no such thing as ntsc/pal with HD.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 09 Aug 2009, 11:30

Thanks

I can't decide which BD to take the plunge with when I buy the player - trouble is I have a small mountain of DVDs

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 09 Aug 2009, 12:07

Don't we all!

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 09 Aug 2009, 12:11

Yeah, I guess

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 09 Aug 2009, 16:31

grim_tales wrote:It sounds like we may need another LNB and new cables - TBH I dont know how many outputs the current one has as it was an older Sky Digital installiation in 2005-ish (not Sky+)... so it *might* only have one.

I'm sure they can all be converted. Sky Multi-room has been going for donkey's years.

saltysam wrote:I Have Sky HD and it's glorious (and expensive) would be interested in freeview HD for the bedroom,how many HD channels are expected for it?

I'm pretty sure at launch about the same as Freesat HD. I've only seen BBC HD and ITV1 HD mentioned, maybe C4 HD too:

http://www.techradar.com/news/televisio ... newstelevi
http://www.homecinemachoice.com/blogs/s ... st+boss+22+
http://www.homecinemachoice.com/blogs/t ... ng+03+07+0

saltysam wrote:24p eliminates pal/ntsc judder,however there is no such thing as ntsc/pal with HD.

Isn't a better explanation: 24p eliminates 50/60p judder, which happens to be the same NTSC/PAL also work at. Like you say NTSC/PAL are SD formats. Except for a few discs that are sourced from a NTSC/PAL Master (I could be getting my technical lingo wrong here), such as Mulholland Drive, none suffer from PAL speedup issues.

grim_tales wrote:trouble is I have a small mountain of DVDs

All BD Players can play DVDs, that shouldn't be an issue.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 09 Aug 2009, 18:11

That wasn't what I meant, I mean I can't decide which DVDs to upgrade to BD

Thanks for the explanation Brad and Sam

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 09 Aug 2009, 22:29

grim_tales wrote:That wasn't what I meant, I mean I can't decide which DVDs to upgrade to BD

I upgrade them based on good the film is. There's no way I'm upgrading them all.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 10 Aug 2009, 09:52

No, just can't afford that

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 10 Aug 2009, 13:14

This player looks good - I'm sure it can be found cheaper than this though:

http://www.johnlewis.com/230528989/Product.aspx

The Panasonic seems a good player also.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 10 Aug 2009, 13:33

Grim, Grim, Grim. This is THE model Salty found at PC World for £90!

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 10 Aug 2009, 15:16

I found the same one on PC World.co.uk for £80 (!) but it says its no longer available

Shingster · Post by **Shingster** » 10 Aug 2009, 16:13

I own the S350 player as well and can definitely recommend it. If you can get it for less than £100 then you won't find a better player at that pricepoint.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 10 Aug 2009, 16:21

Can it be made MR/region free?
I can find it at some Amazon sellers for a little over £100.

Shingster · Post by **Shingster** » 10 Aug 2009, 17:04

No Grim, you'd have to get the player modded, which costs £175/£190 depending on how you go with. I got mine modded as I recieved the player for free.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 10 Aug 2009, 17:11

Thats a lot. I should have said I just meant for DVDs though. I can't see any Brand New ones that cheap, only like new or refurbished.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 10 Aug 2009, 17:55

grim_tales wrote:Can it be made MR/region free?

GRIM! No offence but for Christ's sake. We've been over ALL this a few pages back, you even replied. It's SD DVD MR out of the box (with a remote hack) but BD MR when hacked.

It's still in stock at PC World in some stores but not many now.

grim_tales wrote:Thats a lot.

Have you actually looked at Multiregion Magic? We've been over all this, it's always expensive to mod a BD Player for MR. It requires hardware soldering.

Refurbished is irrelvant if it's in as new condition and comes with a 12 month warranty.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 10 Aug 2009, 18:27

Sorry Brad

I did look at it a while ago but now the site looks down.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 11 Aug 2009, 17:25

The site is working for me.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 11 Aug 2009, 17:54

It is now

As we discussed - the Panasonic DMP-BD60 and Sony BDP-S360E both look fine players so I'll get one or the other. Would modded players be sold in a high street shop?
Having both modded DVD/BD is too expensive, IMO.
Just noticed the Rambo Quadrilogy (is that a word?) US set is Region Free or should be, according to DVD Compare.net.

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 11 Aug 2009, 18:28

grim_tales wrote:Just noticed the Rambo Quadrilogy (is that a word?)

No, Fox made it up for the Alien Quadrilogy, the real word is tetralogy.

Bullets 'n' Babes

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