Which BluRay DVD Player?

Older amps generally receive multi-channel digital audio signals via SPDIF cables i.e. toslink and digital coaxial. This allows Dolby Digital & DTS to be transmitted and then converted by the AMP to an analogue signal which is then used to drive the speakers.

SPDIF does not have the bandwidth to allow HD audio and so it can only be sent over HDMI. Obvioulsy non-HDMI amps cannot recieve digital HD-audio and obviously would not be able to process it anyway.

By having the Blu-ray player decode the audio it can be sent to the amp over analogue connections (removing bandwidth and codec constranints) and can then be used by the amp to power the speakers.
 
Wow thanks for all the replies! I was considering getting the PS3 as others mentioned, but I also am not a big Console Gamer, but it would be a plus over getting a normal bluray player!
 
I can recommend the Sony S350 as I have had it for a few days now and is a great bit of kit (can also be made region free for dvd's which is a bonus)
 
Hessian said:
Wow thanks for all the replies! I was considering getting the PS3 as others mentioned, but I also am not a big Console Gamer, but it would be a plus over getting a normal bluray player!
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I was in the same situ as you and I don't regret getting the ps3 at all. It's now a proper media centre for me, music, photo's, games, movies and internet. :D
 
Bunko said:
can also be made region free for dvd's which is a bonus
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Oooh, you bring up a good point there which I hadn't considered before hand, with my current DVD player it's multi-region and it's soo useful, is there only specific BluRay players that are Multi-Regional and also do all BR players play normal DVD's aswell and DVD-R/RW's ? One again I'm sure these are beginner questions but as mentioned I have no experience with BR at all, so thank you in advance!
 
At the moment with Bluray the "multi-region" is down to the fact that a lot of disks are being sold region free.
Bluray players are region coded - I will be honest and say I'm not sure if there are "multi region hacks" available for stand-alone Bluray players yet.

This site offers quite a good list of which discs are multi-region:

http://www.dvdworldusa.com/bluraylist.asp?sortby=date_current

As for playing DVDs.
All Bluray players will play DVDs.
Again, as far as I know there is a general lack of multi-region "hacks" available for them.

Personally this wasn't a problem for me.
I never bought any DVDs in from the US and these days the release schedules are so close there isn't usually much of a wait between the UK and US releases.
 
stoofa said:
At the moment with Bluray the "multi-region" is down to the fact that a lot of disks are being sold region free.
Bluray players are region coded - I will be honest and say I'm not sure if there are "multi region hacks" available for stand-alone Bluray players yet.
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yes you can get modded blu-ray players that play A.B.C region and you can buy the mod and do it yourself but cant give you the site ans will get wrong
 
BD players can be modded for region free DVD playback and the BD region free too, theres several places either modding yours or some shipping new ones pre-modded when you purchase from them
 
I'd rather not mess around modding it myself, but it's good to know what's available! I'll just weigh up my options and make a decision, thanks for all the help OcUK'ers!
 
The region free for dvd's only on the s350 is done with a remote (one4all jobby) so no chance of messing up the player that way :)
 
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