{"id":70,"date":"2007-09-19T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T06:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/2007\/09\/19\/dream-machine\/"},"modified":"2007-09-19T16:48:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T06:48:00","slug":"dream-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/2007\/09\/19\/dream-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, I&#8217;ve been dreaming about the perfect hardware video player. Currently, I have a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.momitsu.com\/dvd_880n.html\">Momitsu V880N<\/a>\u00a0upscaling DVD\/networked video player. I like this machine because it allows networked DivX\/XviD playback, as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.digital-digest.com\/index.php\/DVD_Upscaling\">DVD upscaling<\/a> up to 1080i. I know that eventually, I will have to replace it with probably a dual-format (Blu-ray\/HD DVD) HD player, but looking at the current selection, none of them really gives me exactly what I want.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" width=\"250\" src=\"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/lg_samsung_dual.png\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"LG and Samsung\u2019s dual-format HD players\" height=\"250\" style=\"width: 250px; height: 250px\" title=\"LG and Samsung\u2019s dual-format HD players\" \/>The early dual-format offerings by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/gadgets\/grope\/hands+on-samsungs-bd+up5000-hybrid-hd-dvd-and-blu+ray-player-verdict-so-far-the-best-282569.php\">Samsung<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/gadgets\/cedia07\/hands-on-lg-bh200-combo-blu+ray-and-hd-dvd-player-297205.php\">LG<\/a> looks pretty good, but neither offers networked DivX\/XviD playback (although I could probably do without it since I&#8217;ve connected my PC to the TV and I&#8217;ve been using it more and more). I&#8217;m also concerned about their region-free status when it comes to playing DVDs &#8211; region-free DVD is perfectly legal here in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>So anyway, here&#8217;s a wishlist of what I want in terms of my next video player (some obvious ones, such as HDMI, has been left out since these features are not optional). It&#8217;s unlikely a player will ever have all of these features, but one can dream &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DVD\/video upscaling using Silicon Optix&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconoptix.com\/products\/ReonVX.cfm\">Reon VX<\/a> chip<\/li>\n<li>Region-free DVD playback<\/li>\n<li>Blu-ray (profile 2.0) and HD DVD playback<\/li>\n<li>DivX\/XviD playback<\/li>\n<li>H.264 and VC-1 (WMV) playback<\/li>\n<li>Networked video playback through wired ethernet or wireless<\/li>\n<li>1080p\/24 output<\/li>\n<li>50, 60, 72\/96\/120 Hz output for video playback<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If such a machine does eventually exist, it will come pretty close to being a media center PC, so perhaps going down the PC route might be the most realistic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, I&#8217;ve been dreaming about the perfect hardware video player. Currently, I have a Momitsu V880N\u00a0upscaling DVD\/networked video player. I like this machine because it allows networked DivX\/XviD playback, as well as DVD upscaling up to 1080i. I know that eventually, I will have to replace it with probably a dual-format (Blu-ray\/HD DVD) HD player, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-high_definition_dvd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pzVMv-18","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}