Sylvania NB531SLX Blu-ray Disc Player

By BestBlueRayPlayers | Published: November 25, 2009
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Sylvania NB531SLX Blu-ray Disc Player
 
Manufacturer: Sylvania
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Product Description
Enjoy the astounding Blu-ray disc experience of a Full 1080p Deep Color picture for cinema-like viewing and great audio sound, plus still be able to view your existing DVD collection. You can also take full advantage of the "Bonus View" feature in select Blu-ray movie titles. A HDMI cable is included.

BLU-RAY/DVD
- Plays BD Video, BD-RE (Single/Dual),BD-R (Single/Dual), DVD Video, DVD-R/RW, CD-R/RW, Audio CD DTS-CD, HD JPEG
- Profile 1.1 (BONUS VIEW)
- HDMI Full-HD 1080 24/60p Output
- HDMI 1080p Up-Conversion Output
- Progressive Scan Video Output
- HDMI ver.1.3a Support
- Deep Color Processing
- HDMI Audio Output
- Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby Digital Lossless, Dolby TrueHD, DTS, DTS HD, Linear PCM
- Advanced User Interface
- Screen Saver
- Virtual Surround System

CONVENIENCE
- FL (Fluorescent) Display
- Trilingual On-Screen Display (English / Spanish / French)
- Parental Lock
- Remote Control

INPUT/OUTPUT
- Video Output: 1 [set]
- Component Video Out: 1 [set]
- HDMI Output: 1 [set]
- Audio Output (L+R): 1 [set]
- Digital Audio Output (Coaxial): 1 [set]
- Digital Audio Output (Optical): 1 [set]
- SD Memory Slot: 1 [set]

Product Details
  • The Full HD 1080p display gives you widescreen HD resolution of 1080P(1920 x 1080 pixels). The main benefits of an LCD screen include the crystal clarity of images and their extremely compact form factor.
  • 24 frames per second (fps) output to create cinema-quality pictures. Experience this technology for smoother, more natural images. Also, with our NB500SL9, you will be able to enjoy deep vivid colors created in nature on your own TV screen.
  • NB530SLX with Bonus View (Profile 1.1) can play Bonus View features. Enjoy picture-in-picture content and audio, played during the main feature when elected on the disc menu. (Bonus View is available only on select movie titles.)
  • You can enjoy your existing DVD and CD collections. Also allow you to up convert to HD quality to enjoy better picture quality with HDMI cable connection to HDTV.

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Customer Reviews
Great!
 
Review Date: November 28, 2009
Reviewer: PAS, NY State
Bought it today at BJ's Wholesale Club, regular price $149.99, with a $50 in-store coupon good for this weekend only that got the price down to $99.99.

We don't have an HD TV yet, but an 8 year old DVD player is starting to go, though, so for $99.99, Santa said "Take it home!".

Very easy to set up, 3 plugs into the old TV, 3 plugs into the player, 1 plug into the electrical outlet in the wall, and ready to roll.

Apparently HD would be even easier - 1 plug into the TV, and 1 into the player, then 1 into the electrical outlet in the wall. Pretty much idiot proof. My kind of product. The specific type cord to use came with it, apparently that would retail for $30 alone.

What impressed me was a nicely bound instruction manual, plus a quick-step guide. In 3 languages, English, French and Spanish - BUT, each language was a separately bound manual or guide booklet. So, if you're working in Spanish, you don't put the book down, lose your place in the instructions, then pick it back up and find your place in French. THANK YOU, Sylvania!

We watched a Blu-Ray Movie on the 4 year old SD TV we have and looked pretty good. We have the same movie on regular DVD, (they came as a combo pack) there was some improvement, not a huge difference, but it's not an HD TV after all.

For the price, and ease of set-up, and use. I'm thrilled.



Awesome first Blu-Ray Player
 
Review Date: May 12, 2010
Reviewer: R. Solomon, Columbus, IN
I just bought this player from ebay. $69.99 brand new in the box with free shipping!! I think I got a hell of a deal! I must disagree with the reviewer that gave this player 1 star and complained about some minor nonsense. The reality is it appears this players screensaver and resume functions are a product of the disc being reviewed. For me, some discs resume, and some don't. I havent had it long so I haven't had much time with it to understand this phenomena. I played Fast And Furious on it and after about 5 minutes on pause the player switched to a segment on the disc that displayed the Universal Pictures logo as an animated screensaver. So far this is the only disc/studio I have seen with this feature. Again I am a total virgin with the BD format. Now, the real downsides I can see are it doesn't have an ethernet connection, so BD LIVE is out of the question, but its ok for me coz I don't have service @ home yet, and when get it I have other plans than stringing ethernet cable across my living room anyway.

Anyway, I'm running my Sylvania via HDMI to a 47PFL5704D Philips 47" LCD 1080p TV. No RCA or Optical out for the audio from this tv, which just blows me away, although it has S/PDIF output, it's useless coz my Bose Cinemate only has RCA inputs. My Sylvania has RCA outputs, thank god, and I take total control of the sound curve by running it thru a Technical Pro EQ-S5200 Dual 10 Band Graphic Equalizer. I've read lots of complaints about no sound curve control with the Cinemate. Get an EQ, it's worth it.

Ok, back to the BD Player. It's quiet, I can barely hear it working at all. the fan in back runs constantly, but again, can barely be heard and is no disturbance at all. I replaced a magnavox dvd player with this thing and it's quieter than that was. It takes about 45 seconds to load a BD. I don't know if thats good or bad, but I don't mind. It does everything I could imagine wanting it to do except... it doesn't have zoom which kinda sux, then again I don't know if any of them have zoom, but my cheap dvd player had it. Anyway I'm in love with the thing and I would recommend it to anyone, but definately look around for bargains coz I didn't know how good of a deal I was getting until after I bought it and started doing research on price, I saved $110 over amazon's price. Happy hunting.
DO NOT BUY
 
Review Date: December 20, 2009
Reviewer: ericd,
There are two features that I assumed were standard but are missing. They are:

1. NO screen saver
2. NO resume

So you better be prepared to watch from start to finish or keep a pen and paper handy to note where you left off.

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