If you go to Virramall these days, you’d see tons of these cheap HD media players being sold in stores (some of which, selling as low as DVD player prices). There must be demand for these as I’ve seen over a dozen models already.
There’s the original Popcorn Hour, the HDX Media, and the ones from Asus and Western Digital (perhaps even the earlier Apple TV).
Even the branded ones are becoming more affordable too. Check out the prices below:
KWorld Media Player M101 – Php2,250
TVIX M-3100U (160GB) – Php4,400
Buffalo Link Theater LT-V100 – Php5,400
Western Digital Media Player – Php5,500
Western Digital Media Player Live – Php6,900
Asus Media Player HD O! Play – Php5,800
Brite-View Cinema Tube – Php6,350
Seagate FreeAgent Theater Plus – Php7,400
Even Western Digital has a couple of different models in this category. I reckon hardware companies such as them would benefit a lot from people letting go of optical disks in favor of hard disk drives.
I noticed a few people here don’t have a clue about HD Media Players! I have the WD TV HD Live Media Player which has composite video and audio, HDMI, HD composite and USB and a LAN connection, so I can connect to my server and other pc’s on my local area network. I have full DVD and Blu-Ray quality movies ripped onto hard drives! I don’t even have a DVD or a Blu-Ray player! I have no need for a standalone optical player any more! There is no moving parts inside of these players unless comes with an internal hard drive. The more people using these players the closer it is to the death of movies being released on shiny pieces of optical discs! These players will not kill recordable DVDs as too many computers users including myself will still use the optical disc for backing up files.
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@dulfo
that’s great…ganyan din sna plan ko kaso kulang pa ko s budget.
any suggestion guys yung mura lang brand pro ok din quality…thanks!
I just bought an NBOX branded media player via CDrking for only P880 pesos, hook it up to my tv and enjoy my ripped and downloaded avi movies via SD card or USB stick, it even plays subtitles. if the format was’nt compatible just pop it in to the FREE app “any video converter” and voila you’re ready.
media player is definitely way better than dvd’s.. i do enjoy watching movies, anime and series using wd tv media player :D
I have a few SageTV HD200s to extend my home video distribution network to all my TVs. I like them. Overall, the reason these are popular here is because the offering from our TV networks plain stink!
I switched from crappy Sky Cable to Cignal a few months back in the hopes that the quality of TV would be better. It wasn’t. I have since disconnected them and sold my equipment and gave the rest of my contract to my uncle.
Its not their fault. The cartel system is such that we have to get most shows seasons after its over in the US and UK. All the foreign content is mostly distributed through the Fox/News corp racist blood sucking corporate grinder and there is no budget for quality local television. Simply put we are 3rd class citizens when it comes to content. We get only the scraps that are thrown to us.
I now no longer subscribe to any local TV systems. I purely download my TV and watch news via onine players like PlayOn and Hulu (proxies are useful) and got an aerial for the local stations.
Everyone I know who has a decent job and is in the younger generation is using something like this these days. Most have complex system integrated with P2P clients. Whatever your preference, we are forced into these alternative distribution systems so these kinds of players work very well for us and I expect the market to continue to grow as the market switches from the old people to the younger more tech savvy people.