Equipment Profile

Current picks for budget home entertanment:

Audio-Video Reciever

Yamaha RX-V385BL 5.1-Ch. 4K Ultra HD A/V Home Theater Receiver - Black - Best Buy $279.99

Television

Sony X750H 55-inch 4K Ultra HD LED TV - 2020 Model $518.00 Amazon $519.00 Best Buy

Blue-Ray DVD Player

Panasonic (DP-UB420) 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Player with HDR10, HDR10+ and Hybrid Log-Gamma (HLG) Playback, Hi-Res Sound, 4K VOD Streaming and Voice Assist – Black $219.00 Best Buy

Digital Audio Player (DAP)

The iRULU designs for Android System, which allows you to download the Hiby Music App and create a playlist or editing song data to sync to a player.

FLAC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLAC

"...evaluation focused on price, feature set, storage, ease of use, battery life, and interface. We also explored auxiliary features such as design and smart compatibility."

Best MP3 Player:

https://www.amazon/review/cx=portable+media+player

Notes:

I've been buying some quality vintage equipment. I got these two items for the man-cave garage:

Denon AVR-589 HDMI 5.1 Home Theater A/V Surround Receiver.

Denon DBT-1713UD Universal Audio/Video Blu-ray Disc DVD Player with Remote!

Here are some notes if you decide to get any pieces from eBay:

Yamaha bd-a1020 Blu-ray dvd player.

Yamaha BD-A1010 Internet-ready universal 3D Blu-ray Player.

Read on the internet::

"Yamaha releases what might be the successor to the JVC XV-BP1. Unfortunately, JVC never released a direct successor to the XV BP1. Instead, they released the low budget profile 1.1 XV BP11 destined for closeout pricing at Sam's Club. Nearly 16 months after the JVC's release, I think I have found its successor, but strangely enough it's hidden behind a Yamaha label.

Prior Yamaha blu ray players (1065, 1900) were Sharp-based players that lacked any real redeeming quality save an opportunity for Yamaha receiver owners to have some commonality in their rack. Upon reading the press releases of the 667, a few things caught my eye - that worrying quick start feature was dropped and the inclusion of dlna made me wonder whose format the player was based. It did not appear to be Sharp-based (unlike the new Pioneer releases) and also lacked the usual Funai or LG look and layout that is generally easy to spot.

The 667 arrived Thursday afternoon and I have been pushing this unit through an abnormally high number of tests. Its GUI, OSD, and setup menu were very familiar in that they struck me as very similar to my Oppo 83 and 80. The initial setup and overlain setup menu were different in look and lacked a number of options the Oppos have, but had an overwhelming Oppo-esque familiarity to them.

The center-mounted disc drive is a bit pokey, opening in 10-12 seconds (very similar to the Oppp 83 EAP first-run drives), but load times were very fast and were only outpaced by the newest Samsung models. Upon checking synthetic deinterlacing tests, I knew we had found the very competent Mediatek chipset. In fact, its synthetic deinterlacing tests for film cadence matched the Oppo BDP-80 identically. Unfortunately, its video deinterlacing was not quite up to par with the Oppo BDP-80.

Real world DVD testing revealed a very competent player that could not quite match the Pioneer BDP-320's sharpness or the Oppo's accuracy in avoiding aliasing, but was damn close. The player's biggest deficiency is a lack of fine tuned noise reduction to bring a more detailed edge to the image. That said, the player is very versatile and offers the same smooth, accurate image other mediatek chipped players produce. The player offers a zoom function for dvds that is effective and similar to that offered in the Oppo 80, but a bit different in its gradients.

In respects of analogue audio, the 667 offers only stereo outputs that are adequate, but not inspiring in my testing. Moreover, it does not offer SACD or DVD-A playback like the Oppo (or even the Sony 470 for the former), but it does offer DLNA connectivity and Netflix streaming.

So why is this the next JVC XV-BP1? While its $329 MSRP is a bit stiff, it is currently heavily discounted and available for $250 in its second week of release. Should price pressure continue and it sells below $200, this might become my recommended entry-level player now that the Pioneer BDP-320 is scarce if not gone. It maintains the high quality dvd playback and speed very similar to the XV BP1, but with more modern features like DLNA and Netflix (yes, I know LG has had streaming for almost three years!).

That said, prices have dropped considerably and arguing relative value is more and more difficult. The $250 mark is heavily competitive and you have older, discontinued models being closed at slightly higher prices (denon dbp-2010ci comes to mind). That said, with just a little more price pressure this player is ideal for folks looking for Netflix streaming, very fast disc loading times, DLNA connectivity and very good dvd playback. There are a number of players that give you more bells and whistles at a lower price (Sony BDP-S470 and LG BD570), but they cannot quite offer the dvd playback this mediatek chipped player offers. Highly Recommended at under $200; Worth Considering at $225."