JVC Unveils Alternative HD DVD Player

[kabanero]

"JVC introduces the SRDVD-100U, ProHD media player. The SRDVD-100U provides an economical way of viewing and distributing HD recordings in a variety of file formats including HDV's MPEG-2 and Windows Media Video."

Full article here:
http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News...x?NewsId=14094

Here is Comparison Matrix of I-O DATA AVeL LinkPlayer AVLP2/DVDLA and I-O DATA (JVC) LinkPlayer Kuro-Obi SRDVD-100U:

http://www.iodata.com/usa/products/AVLP2_Compare.php#JB

[absinthecarolinas]

Not bad for $399. That's what I payed for my first DVD player years ago. I see on the chart that the player is DivX certified and claims to support MPEG 1/2/4 - but I see no specific mention of h264/AVC, which I thought was supposed to be part of the official definition of HD-DVD (or was that just Blu-Ray?).

I'll hold off.

-abs