JVC's new blu-ray player

[Dari]

What's not to like here?

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The first Blu-ray player to come to the U.S. from JVC, the XV-PB1, hasn't received a lot of hype since its CES reveal, but that might change now that it appears to be one of the first supporting MKV playback, followin the Oppo BDP-83 and LG BD390. EHD reader Bill picked one up on the humble and lets us know he's had no problems playing 1080p video with DTS audio from a burned DVD. The manual on JVC's website indicates official MKV and AVCHD support, but surprisingly, not DivX although the spec sheet on the same website says it does. We're reached out to JVC to confirm what buyers can expect from the XV-PB1, but with MKV on top of BD-Live, network streaming from PCs and reportedly extremely fast load times this $299 player might reshuffle the list of most desired Blu-ray hardware.

 

[Shawn]

price? brand?

 

[Slick5150]

Originally posted by: Shawn
price? brand?

Umm. Both of those questions are answered in his post.

JVC. $299.

 

[Shawn]

sorry, I was responding to his question of "What's not to like here?"

 

[nakedfrog]

AFAIK, MKV is a container, which means it could have different file types contained within... so what exactly does it mean when they say it supports MKV?

 

[ZetaEpyon]

Presumably merely that it supports the MKV container format?

 

[scootermaster]

I like saying "oppo".