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Originally Posted by soccerman58 /forum/post/21659768
Hi
Please, I am going blind from reading Blu-Ray reviews, specs, manuals, jumbles of letters and numbers, the opinions of little old ladies who shop exclusively at Wal-Mart, ad nauseam.
Here's what I want; just tell me what to get, up to about $150 U.S. I don't really want a $59.99 no-name, but if it does what I want...
FWIW I have a Vizio 42" LCD and I'll be upgrading my AVR to something like a Mid-Price DENON or Onkyo with HDMI input/output.
Blu-Ray player with
MOST IMPORTANT: will play 95 percent of all the DVDs I backed up from my computer using the AVI format. This needs to be as a result of your personal experience coz I found a Samsung I liked that seemed to have all the specs, then I read the manual and it said - very carefully and deliberately - that Xvid/Divx disks needed to be made and finalized in a DVD recorder, which I take to mean nothing pirated and burned in my tatty hard drive with freeware.
I don't feel inclined to spend a week ripping a couple hundred movies and re-burning them using MPEG4 or MKV format.
WiFi (preferably built-in because I suspect "WiFi Ready" means buying more parts and complications) that streams Netflix without buffering every 10 minutes. (my download speed is usually between 8 and 18 MBPS). That probably means a dual antenna job. My router is about 25 feet away.
High-quality audio over HDMI
Anything else, like 3D, USB ports, Ipod docks, disc trays vs slots, Google, upside-down mounting, molded power cord etc I don't care as long as it meets Priority 1.
Thank you so much
Phil