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Looking for DVD player recommentation
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Why not coinsder buying USB bluray/DVD reader which u plug in to PC ?
What's the added value doing that? I'd then have player>PC (dedicated to TV)>TV.
If you want a player with video out it’s almost guaranteed to not have any USB out for copy protection reasons. But a random PC plus the USB drive of your choice will fit both requirements.
U can buy any cheap nettop which cost about 70$ on eBay for example something like HP mini connect to USB bluray reader and using display port to HDMI wire connect to tv generally it would cost about 90$ together
HP also made laptops with a Blu-Ray drive built right into them. I got one for a few bucks at a flea market and ended up swapping the BD drive into my old ThinkPad.
Well you already have a desktop so the added value is that once you get the content out of the disk you don't need them anymore. You can just store them if you want but not need to play with the physical thing, neither DVD nor player.
I mean if you particularly enjoy very specific things, e.g. bonus, or the physical feeling of the media (why not, harder to justify than with e.g. vinyl but still fine) you can still do that but otherwise the physical media isn't actually needed anymore.