This is NOT a true universal player.. I should be able to hook up an external hard drive (fire wire, usb, Ethernet, sata) and the unit should be able to play ripped bluray ISO's. It should have windows media center and cable card built-in. And it must play every single file format there ever was, is and will be.
$5000.00 for a bluray player.. Rich people are dumb asses.
Oh, I'm sure the BDA would cheerfully allow Denon or anyone else to put the Blu-ray logo on a player that could do ripped ISOs. No problem.
As for the price, that's what Denon used to charge for some of its SD DVD players. At least now you get true HD capability.
Not that I back(ed) that format and I know it's of limited relevance now, but at $5,000, isn't the cost of adding HD-DVD functionality just to make it truly universal kind of a rounding error at this point? Why not throw that in? And VideoCD? Pretty much every 5inch format?
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This is NOT a true universal player.. I should be able to hook up an external hard drive (fire wire, usb, Ethernet, sata) and the unit should be able to play ripped bluray ISO's. It should have windows media center and cable card built-in. And it must play every single file format there ever was, is and will be.
$5000.00 for a bluray player.. Rich people are dumb asses.
Oh, I'm sure the BDA would cheerfully allow Denon or anyone else to put the Blu-ray logo on a player that could do ripped ISOs. No problem.
As for the price, that's what Denon used to charge for some of its SD DVD players. At least now you get true HD capability.
Not that I back(ed) that format and I know it's of limited relevance now, but at $5,000, isn't the cost of adding HD-DVD functionality just to make it truly universal kind of a rounding error at this point? Why not throw that in? And VideoCD? Pretty much every 5inch format?
That'd be PS3. It does all that