We'll talk about the insufferable remote control responsiveness later, but suffice it to say it's not exactly a pleasure to use this player. The player will correctly retract the tray when you hit the Power button to turn it off. It does not, however, Power up unless you hit the actual Power button the Eject button or Play button won't bring the player online. We performed a Firmware update since there was a new version available.
I didn't notice any significant difference between the two, but I'm sure they fixed some disc incompatibilities at the very least. All of our bench testing, evaluation and testing came after the flash updated firmware. Flashing the player was relatively painless. You just download the new files from the Memorex website, burn them to CD-R and then load the disc into the player unfortunately, the player can't use a flash drive via USB for updates.
During the firmware update, the TV displayed the playful Memorex logo on an aquamarine colored background the normal background is blue. It took about 6 minutes and 30 seconds to perform the firmware update, after which it took another minute to reboot and allow me to place a new disc into the tray.
Confused about what AV Gear to buy or how to set it up? The MVBD left has a slightly smaller power supply and a unified audio-video circuit board as opposed to the Pioneer BDPFD right Comparing the guts of the Memorex to the Pioneer BDPFD player for considerably more money it was readily apparent that Pioneer had a slightly larger power supply and had separated the audio and video circuit boards.
Read the Complete Thread. And I started my long, slow, deliberative process of comparison shopping, which involves a lot of research, and polling my friends, and visiting big-box retail stores to lay my hands on the things themselves, and ritualistically burning a one-dollar bill as a sacrifice to St. Floyd of Gatlinburg, the patron saint of getting a good deal. With integrated Wi-Fi for streaming online content?
And it up-converts DVDs, too? For cheap? BD-Live is an interactive and still-quite-exclusive Blu-ray feature. BD-Live allows the viewer to download and store exclusive content such as actors' profiles, trailers, background stories, or even games related to the movie.
And there's a pleasant side effect to having an Internet connection: Many Blu-ray players can download updates for their software when they become available - this saves you the bother of manually downloading the software and burning it onto a CD. One interactive feature is the "CineChat" function. Here, viewers can use BD-Live's Internet connection to chat with other viewers and exchange thoughts on the movie as it progresses.
The text comments are sent via an on-screen keyboard or via the home PC. Learn more. Woot orders Amazon Prime membership required. Hey, you can only buy 3 of these. Leave some for the rest of us! Post a Comment. They were good Black Friday deals, so I have no buyer's remorse. I knew they didn't have an ethernet port, but I had no idea what good it might be. I still can only guess what utility I might get from having my player on my home network.
Like most of these players, it has a USB port, so I quickly got into experimentation and found that it would play MP4, AVI, and a mess of other file formats, but not every file format. Around the same time, MKV files started to become prevalent. I don't live and breath for this stuff, but I am an enthusiast, so it took me a while to understand why we needed yet another format!
MKV Matroska is a container. From what I can tell, it is lossless, and it gets a small amount of compression. They can hold a lot of stuff, but in order to use them with devices that don't support it and aren't being well supported by the manufacturer , you have to do something with them. I have the answer for that! You could get a conversion program that knows how to read these files and write them out to another format - like AVI or MP4.
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