Great player! I have had it for an year and it works great. Most people who have given this a 1 star are slightly technically challenged. There is a piece of paper which comes along with the box which says to put 1369 "as soon as" you enter setup. This does not show up on screen or anywhere you just press it and then you have the option of selecting the region. Pros: - Works great for all regions - Has BD live support - Has 3d support - Connects to internet (of course, since it supports BD live :) - Great price Cons: - Remote control layout not the best. Esp the positioning of the play and ff/rw button. But you can live with it. - The eject button could have been more responsive but once you get a hang of it, works fine.
A shopper
4
I bought this on the basis of: 1) lots of outputs, both old and new, 2) Multi-region/region-free. So far its living up to my expectations, given the price versus the performance. It is after all, an inexpensive Chinese generic, and I expected that when I got it. It tests good with my Region 2 DVDs, and the one BD I own. Some surprises: the remotes play/pause/stop buttons are way down in the obscure small-button "record" area of the remote (a common VCR design, since it does not record, Im not liking the design of this at all, its most important buttons are hardest to find). Two, again not a surprise with this type equipment, on-screen messages do not always match the remote. For example, "Press <Enter> to play from the beginning or <Return> to resume from here": There is no <Enter key>, anywhere. <OK> does not seem to work. No biggie, Ill figure it out eventually. Something is always lost in translation. The last test is how long it will last. My recently purchased Philips BDP3406 lasted about 1 year, then broke, making it not worth the investment (for a couple hundred extra, I could have bought a real player, like a Denon, that would have lasted 5-10 years). And the Philips remote was even worse than this one. Oh, the Philips tray was one millimeter too shallow, causing optical disks to frequently get jammed between the tray and the top of its drawer. This iVid has not given me that problem, so far.
James Braley
4
Works good, looks nice, only two issues where shipping got delayed by a day and the video cables it came with really cheap composite cables when it can use component cables and HDMI cables. I had a HDMI cable I could use and like I said the product works good and looks fine. I can see sending the composite cables with a DVD player but I would expect atleast component cables to come with a Blu Ray player otherwise why by a Blu Ray player where the discs are more expensive then DVDs if the video is the same quality due to the limits of the supplied cable. And honestly I would have preferred no video cables to be sent with it rather then composite cables since now thats just one more thing to lay about gathering dust probably never to be used unless I really feel like watching something on VHS that never got released on any type of disc. With that said, it does exactly as the description says, it plays any region disc with no issues, and yeah there is not much else to say. If your looking for a Multi Region Blu Ray player this one definitly works, if your just looking for a Blu Ray player and dont watch movies imported in from other countries and dont have a need for multi region you can probably get a higher quality one for the same price or the same quality one for cheaper if you are not getting multi region. In either case if you pick this up make sure to get yourself a HDMI or component cable as well depending on what your TV (or in my case computer moniter) is capable of having plugged in since it only comes with composite and if your going to be using composite you may as well get DVDs much cheaper then Blu Ray since with composite you wont notice a difference.
Dylan Smith
4
Pros: Arrived on time and fully intact. Region change is easy to set up if you read the instructions. Plays Blurays flawlessly after set up. Region settings can be changed at any time and as many times as need be. Cons: My device, though the same hardware-wise, is of a different brand (just seems odd). Relatively large compared to other Bluray players. The disk drive is noticeably loud while it reads and plays movies. I received the player on time, and in one piece. The box and device are branded as iCom instead of iVid; however the device is the exact same as what is marketed, the BD780 model. The box was not sealed with tape, so I assume that it is in fact a post factory upgrade. Inside the box is the player, safely held in place with Styrofoam, the remote controller, batteries for the remote controller, AV cables (but NO HDMI cable), the user manual, and the instructions to change the region of the player. The instruction list steps to change the region of the bluray player. First you go into the set up menu of the player, then you punch in a four-digit code. When you punch in the code, there is no box or GUI anywhere that shows the input of the code. Basically, the code input is invisible. But if you enter the 4 numbers correctly, a region change menu pops up where you can easily change the region of the player. Once you change it, it remains that region until you change it again. I need the player for region B blurays, so I only needed to change it once. All in all, the region control is easy to set up, and the player is very quick. The player itself is kind of large compared to most other Bluray players Ive seen. It is unfortunate that it does not come packaged with an HDMI cable because Blurays ought to be seen in HD, not standard AV. But I had a spare HDMI cable, so I did not have to buy another. Lastly, my region B Blurays play flawlessly on the player, and they look and sound great. However, the player is pretty loud while it reads discs. With a good sound system, its hardly noticeable, but at low volumes, the constant loud hum of the disk drive is kind of annoying.
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