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Assuming we are building a HTPC mainly for playing A/V media, not playing games, the most important thing but often overlooked or not emphasized by most the review on motherboard or graphics card is the ability to support HD audio such as DTS-HD MA or DD TrueHD bit stream. Am I saying audio is a more important [...] The Sylvania NB530SLX Bu-Ray player is only $59.99 at Amazon! I have the Magnavox version (see revew)for some time now and it has been woking great. Don’t know how long it will last but this is certainly a great price for a decent Blu-Ray player.
Amazon is having another one of so call “Buy 2, Get 1 Free Sale” for Blu-Ray movies. But is it really a “sale”? It seems Amazon has raised the prices on those qualify for the “sale” by average of $5 or $6 from the day before the “sale”. Let’s assume for a movie that was listed for [...]
When I first got the Magnavox NB530MGX I was using an older Pioneer receiver that lack of HDMI connection which means I was not able to decode the HD audio formats. I was using the coaxial digital output of the NB530 to the receiver. The result of course is as good or as bad [...]
Well, Amazon decided to drop the price for Ghostbusters Blu-Ray to $12.99 on the last day (7/31/2009) of the $5 coupon. After the discount, the net price for the movie is $7.99! The coupon code for Amazon is: GHOSTBLU Reminder: Coupon expire TODAY! EDIT 08/01/2009: The coupon [...]
HDMI has become more and more important. Not just because HDMI simplified A/V connections, equally or even more important is the evil HDCP DRM. Without HDCP, the DVD players are not allowing to upscale video beyond 480P; even I have paid the full price for the DVD movie. Without HDCP, the Blu-Ray players are [...]
Out of curiosity, I opened up the Magnavox NB530MGX Blu-Ray Player. I was surprised for a low end unit; there are more screws than a Yamaha RX-V665 receiver that need to be unscrewed to open the unit. They probably can cut 1/3 of the screws without affecting performance or rigidity of the casing.
It is interesting to see Sony has a $3 coupon that is good until 10/31/2009 for some Blu-Ray movies. One would think they want to encourage people to buy their movies but on the other hand, Sony does not make these coupons easy to find. Anyway, here they are, Amazon & DeepDiscount Code
By all account, the Yamaha RX-V665 is a just another mid range A/V receiver. What made this unit attractive to us is it probably the lowest cost A/V receiver in mid 2009 that has pre-amp output. Why is pre-amp output important for a receiver? This is because it will allow us to use it as [...]
Setup for a basic player like the NB530MGX is simple and straight forward enough one probably does not even need to look at the manual. In my setup, for video, I connected the HDMI port to a powered HDMI switch, which in terms connected to a gizmo called HDFury that convert HDMI to component video [...] |
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