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HDi Dune BD Prime 3.0 Blu-ray plus Media player

21 Jan, 2010, 9:58 am IST | by Siddharth Bhatia |

We are always excited when a new product, a brand that we have not tested before, comes to our labs. It entitles new features, and hopefully performance that is a serious notch above the rest, as these days a notch is all it takes. The HDi Dune has received some good comments from the global audience, and has a feature set like none other, so let’s not waste any more time and get to the full review, of the BD Prime 3.0 Blu-ray/media player.

Form
Form wise it’s a straight up black chassis, quite slim and upto modern standards in terms of footprint and space occupied. It's straight edged and humble looking, with tiny round silver push buttons on the façade. The tray slides out of the central portion of the panel, while the left end houses the alphanumeric LED screen. The finish and build seem perfectly fine. I want to make a special mention of the remote: it’s extremely well laid out plus it has a nice ergonomic feel to its grip and case material.

Now on to features: This player is not just a Blu-ray player, it’s a media player also. It plays HDDs and optical discs. The codecs supported are the whole exhaustive list, including H.264, VC-1, MPEG1,2 and 4. For containers we have MKV, MPEG-TS, MPEG-PS, M2TS, VOB, AVI, MOV, MP4, QT, ASF, WMV, Blu-Ray-ISO, BDMV, DVD-ISO, VIDEO_TS. In audio there is support for formats like Flac and AAC besides regular ones.

It's BD live compliant, has an Ethernet port for network connections,an eSATA port, a slot for internal SATA HDD and last but not least it has 3 x USB 2.0. Thus you can connect FAT 32 or NTFS drives.
 

For output there is HDMI 1.3, composite, component and SPDIF optical and coaxial audio outs. Analog 7.1 audio outputs are available in case you want the player to decode the surround sound. There is decoding support for Dolby TrueHD and DTS HD Master Audio. At the core of it all is a Sigma Designs chip, a well reputed name for media file processors.

Tags: HDi Dune , BD Prime 3.0 , HDD media player

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