Does the BH200 support Profile 2.0 / BD-Live? People said in early reviews that it has the necessary hardware, but did the feature ever get enabled in a firmware update?
It is officially only 1.1 at the moment but it should be able to fully support 2.0 with additonal firmware. It meets every profile 2.0 hardware requirement, assuming that you stick some memory in the USB slot.
And like others have said, I have the player as well and it is great. I initially bought the Samsung BD-UP5000 back in December but sold it since they never made the audio decoding work. At the moment, the BH200 can bitstream both TrueHD and DTS-HD MA and can internally decode TrueHD (no DTS-HD MA yet). This is better than any other combo player, and better than most other current standalone players.
With LG discontinuing their hybrid players however I would guess that an update to BD-Live will likely never come for the BH200 if it has not already, unless someone else has additional information from somewhere else.
Would like to jump onto the Blu-ray bandwagon, but would rather do it in 1 player for my existing HD-DVD collection rather than have 2 devices sitting around.
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Does the BH200 support Profile 2.0 / BD-Live? People said in early reviews that it has the necessary hardware, but did the feature ever get enabled in a firmware update?
It is officially only 1.1 at the moment but it should be able to fully support 2.0 with additonal firmware. It meets every profile 2.0 hardware requirement, assuming that you stick some memory in the USB slot.
And like others have said, I have the player as well and it is great. I initially bought the Samsung BD-UP5000 back in December but sold it since they never made the audio decoding work. At the moment, the BH200 can bitstream both TrueHD and DTS-HD MA and can internally decode TrueHD (no DTS-HD MA yet). This is better than any other combo player, and better than most other current standalone players.
With LG discontinuing their hybrid players however I would guess that an update to BD-Live will likely never come for the BH200 if it has not already, unless someone else has additional information from somewhere else.
Would like to jump onto the Blu-ray bandwagon, but would rather do it in 1 player for my existing HD-DVD collection rather than have 2 devices sitting around.