JVC Home JVC XVBP1 Blu-ray Disc Player
JVC Home JVC XVBP1 Blu-ray Disc Player
The new JVC XV-BP1 is a truly versatile high definition player, offering playback of high definition Blu-ray discs, plus playback of the AVCHD format, the high definition format widely used for HD camcorders, including the JVC HD Everio line. Among the many features of the new JVC XV-BP1 Blu-ray player, to be available in March, is BD Live (Profile ver. 2.0) compatibility when used with USB memory. With BD Live compatibility the player can be connected to the Internet to access BD Live 2.0 features, including easy firmware updates, new movie trailers, updated subtitles, online shopping, chat and gaming. Connections include HDMI ver.1.3 with Deep Color and x.v.Color, USB Host, LAN for BD Live, component and composite video outputs, and analog, optical and coaxial audio outputs. In addition to AVCHD, other playable formats are JPEG, MP3, WMA, Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby True HD, DTS and DTS HD. Playable discs are BD-ROM, BD-R/RE, BD/DVD Hybrid, DVD-Video, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, Audio CD and CD-R/RW.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars barb
I really haven’t had an opportunity to watch a blue-ray movie, but other dvd’s work just fine.
5 Stars Quality Disc loading speed
Like other reviewers, this is a very nice one to have, good price I paid 179.00 for it, really solid and quality like the OPPO that my friend had
5 Stars Excellent all-around player
I bought this Blu-ray player specifically because it was capable of playing MPEG4 content. It did not disappoint. Put in a DVD or USB drive with videos, music or pictures on it and it handles them all very gracefully. Standard DVDs are unconverted very nicely, leaving almost no visual artifacts. HDMI, component, and optical and coax SPDIF audio outputs will let you connect it to nearly anything out there today.
5 Stars TRULY AWESOME PLAYER!!!
I absolutely love this player!! I’ve had a Samsung BluRay player (BD-P1400) for a little over a year, and it absolutely drove me crazy with it’s slow loading times, unresponsiveness, freezing, glitches, problems with upgrades…and their customer service is some of the worst I’ve ever dealt with. Recently I bought “Drag Me To Hell” & it wasn’t able to load it, & they refused to admit they need to provide an upgrade for it…despite the hundreds of people complaining about it online. That was the last straw….so I got my money refunded and went looking for a new player.
I am so glad I found this one!! BRILLIANT picture for BD & some of the best DVD upscaling I’ve ever seen…it turns the colors and contrast up a notch on DVDs to make them look a little less faded. Finally the menus on BDs aren’t all jittery and constantly freezing! They are as smooth as can be! Loading times are super fast…I’m so happy to be able to pop in a BD and be watching it less than 30 seconds later. Nice menu design, very easy to use…customizable enough for me. Anything it can’t do I can do with my TV’s settings.
A feature I really appreciate is the ability to zoom. For a DVD that is in widescreen but not enhanced for a 16X9 TV, I used to have to bear watching a small screen within a screen, with a black border all around it. This player lets you zoom in 16 individual levels, eventually making a 4:3 feed fit the width of your screen. …This feature works on all DVDs but only on some BDs…it can be nice for a BD in 2.40:1, if you just want to zoom it a little to make the picture bigger.
Remote is good & easy to use. The player is very responsive.
Firmware upgrades are simple and quick…less than a minute. All you need is a USB flash drive…so much better than my last player, where the only alternative to getting it off the web was burning a disc, & then it would spend 20 minutes upgrading…sometimes freezing indefinitely in the process.
BD-Live works nicely. Takes a little while to get it to load initially, but that’s expected.
…Oh, and another thing: it doesn’t time out when you have it paused, and if it eventually does, it saves your spot. Those of you who have never had a blu-ray player may think these are all trivial things I’m talking about, but my last player did NONE of these things. It would time out after 5 minutes of being paused, lose your place in the movie, & then you’d have to sit through 5 minutes of loading the disc again, then fast-forward to find your spot. HORRIBLE!
Basically, this player is AWESOME. And I can’t believe how affordable it is.
PS - I know some complain about the blue lights on the front being bright, which they are…but it’s not that bad. I watch movies with all the lights out, and the light of my 40″ LCD overpowers them by far. They don’t distract me at all.
5 Stars Excellent, versatile player for the price.
I replaced a 1080p upconverting Pioneer DVD player with the JVC to acquire Blu-ray compatibility. I wasn’t disappointed. The upconverting 1080p function of the JVC is equal to the Pioneer and it’s Blu-ray play quality is excellent. Sound reproduction much better with Blu-ray disks, and the fuzzy audio of many standard DVD movies is gone. Blu ray load time is also short, 15 seconds or so. Almost as fast as a standard DVD. A real bonus is the player’s ability to randomly play mp3 music files on a DVD having 650 or less tracks. The JVC has good versatility, and will play several other formats. Highly recommend at the Amazon price.
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