Are HD Media players replacing DVD players?

HD players may be becoming cheaper but as long as HD TVs are priced sky-high, DVD players are here for the long run.

Funny but I don’t even consider buying HD players, even though I regularly download movies and TV shows; and I don’t even own a dvd player.

After downloading a movie from torrent, I just hook it up through its VGA port (or HDMI)to the TV, same goes with the speakers

And for a remote control, I use a wireless mouse. Voila! instant home theater na.

yeah theyre gonna replace dvd players. especially for collectors who rip their movies into hard drives to preserve the DVDs/CDs.

wrote about it last year: http://www.calvinshub.com/2009/09/digital-media-players-will-replace-dvd-players-in-the-future/

@abeolandres i got my WDTV Live and super sulit siya! Now only if we had faster broadband sa Pinas!

Prices of both Blu Ray players and discs are still quite high at the moment. HD Media Players are more practical since these use HDD (and/or a storage device on a network)for storage which makes it easy to organize shows (regardless of the origin of the media). Also Blu Ray’s DRM system makes it troublesome to watch videos on a GNU/Linux machine unless it was ripped off and re encoded

Really hope local companies would start releasing HD Media Players as well (eyeing Promac and CDRKing).

Spotted this after searching: (other models lack support for MKV, 720p limited, and are essentially based on current DVD/Divx players minus the optical drive)
http://www.cdrking.com/index.php?mod=products&type=view&sid=2697&main=85

* HDD Size & Capacity External USB HDD, U-disk and memory cards
* Main Menu Photo, Music, Movie, Text, System Setting
* Touch Button Fashionable touch key
* Photo File Format: JPEG, BMP, PNG
* Supported Audio Format: BTSC/A3/EIA-J, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 (Layer I/II), AAC, HE-AAC and DOLBY DIGITAL (AC-3)
* Supported Video Format: H.264, MPEG1/2/4, DIVX, XVID, etc
* Supported HD Code: RM/RMVB Support 720P RM/RMVB, and full support RM 8/9/10
* Video Playback File Format: TS, MKV, RM/RMVB, TP, AVI, VOB, DAT, MPG, MPEG, MOV, etc
* Audio Playback File Format: MP3, WMA, M4A (AAC)
* Music slideshow and zoom
* Language: English, Chinese, etc..
* Subtitle: Supports multi-locate subtitles (*.TXT, *.PSB, *.SMI, *.SRT, *.SUB, *.ASS, *.SSA, etc..) and sound track switch
* E-book support .txt E-book reading
* Work Condition Operating temperature: -10°C ~ +45°C

Specifications:

* AC adapter Input: 100-240V AC In
* Output: 5V/3A, 50/60 HZ DC Out
* HD Decode 1080P (1920 x 1080), Bit Rate up to 104Mbps
* IC Solution Mstar 6M68
* USB Interface: USB Host 2.0
* Card Reader: SD/SDHC/MMC/MS/MS PRO etc.
* Audio Output Interface: HDMI1.3 Digital, Optical, Coaxial, L/R Stereo output
* Video Output Interface: HDMI1.3 (up to 1080P), and Y/Pb/Pr
* System Requirements PC: 98SE /ME /2000 /XP, Mac OS

Para sa mga may big screen LCD TVs mas maganda talaga kung hd media player ang gamit para masulit yung display power nung tv lalo na kung 720p pataas yung mga nadodownload na movies. Pero since marami pa rin ang gumagamit ng standard tv marami pa rin ang gagamit ng dvd players at jack sparrow dvds. Personally I am enjoying my PCH for quite some time now, matagal na rin yung huling bili ko ng dvd.

I sometimes loose my DVD discs (when someone borrows it and fails to return it) but since I started using HD media player + my portable HDD I just let them copy my movie file in my HDD and my movie stays with me.

Also, when travelling (specially with kids),I can bring my small media player and and would have lots of movie choices stored in my HDD.

It sure has in my house. We switched all our old Flat screen (not plasma or LCD) TV’s to LED TV’s and have an HD player in every room.
The resolution is incredible. Don’t even want to watch movies now as the picture cannot be beat on HD players with 720 or 1080 files.

My DVD player has been gathering dust.

sana nag-record nang TV shows at i-store sa internal storage nang HD media player

kailan maging available ang ISDB-T Setup Box dito

I have a few SageTV HD200s to extend my home video distribution network to all my TVs. I like them. Overall, the reason these are popular here is because the offering from our TV networks plain stink!

I switched from crappy Sky Cable to Cignal a few months back in the hopes that the quality of TV would be better. It wasn’t. I have since disconnected them and sold my equipment and gave the rest of my contract to my uncle.

Its not their fault. The cartel system is such that we have to get most shows seasons after its over in the US and UK. All the foreign content is mostly distributed through the Fox/News corp racist blood sucking corporate grinder and there is no budget for quality local television. Simply put we are 3rd class citizens when it comes to content. We get only the scraps that are thrown to us.

I now no longer subscribe to any local TV systems. I purely download my TV and watch news via onine players like PlayOn and Hulu (proxies are useful) and got an aerial for the local stations.

Everyone I know who has a decent job and is in the younger generation is using something like this these days. Most have complex system integrated with P2P clients. Whatever your preference, we are forced into these alternative distribution systems so these kinds of players work very well for us and I expect the market to continue to grow as the market switches from the old people to the younger more tech savvy people.

I just bought an NBOX branded media player via CDrking for only P880 pesos, hook it up to my tv and enjoy my ripped and downloaded avi movies via SD card or USB stick, it even plays subtitles. if the format was’nt compatible just pop it in to the FREE app “any video converter” and voila you’re ready.

If you are interested i have a 1TB of HD 1080P movies (>8Gb files/movie), excellent quality even on a bigger screen. txt me @ 091788*****. Selling it a cheap price.

hi barry, im selling my copies of 1tb of 1080p movies, popular titles, aroung 8-12gb per movie. txt me @ 091788***** if interested.