Comments on: JVC Home JVC XVBP1 Blu-ray Disc Player

By: Norm Birndorf

Norm Birndorf — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:48:36 +0000

I replaced a 1080p upconverting Pioneer DVD player with the JVC to acquire Blu-ray compatibility. I wasn’t disappointed. The upconverting 1080p function of the JVC is equal to the Pioneer and it’s Blu-ray play quality is excellent. Sound reproduction much better with Blu-ray disks, and the fuzzy audio of many standard DVD movies is gone. A real bonus is the player’s ability to randomly play mp3 music files on a DVD having 650 or less tracks. The JVC has good versatility, and will play several other formats. Highly recommend at the Amazon price.
Rating: 5 / 5

By: Barbara Brunermer

Barbara Brunermer — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:50:03 +0000

I really haven’t had an opportunity to watch a blue-ray movie, but other dvd’s work just fine.
Rating: 5 / 5

By: reluctant techie

reluctant techie — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:10:01 +0000

Brilliant! My top-of-the-line ([...] special) sony blu-ray player doesn’t even play Mp3 – yet alone Divx, Xvid, h.264, MKV, Mpeg-4 etc… What a disappointment that electronics manufacturers seem to be decreasing the availability of file formats on their players.

JVC to the rescue! A quick search at videohelp(dot)com shows that this player and this player alone is (user verified as) capable of playing all the formats they list, including WMA and JPG, as well as from USB and all the recordable formats such as blu-ray dual layer discs(currently $25 each for a 50GB blank disk – ouch).

For some reason this awesome compatibility isn’t touted in the product description but I think it should be. I don’t even own the product but it took me an hour to find what I was looking for so here you go.
Rating: 5 / 5

By: P. Stevens

P. Stevens — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:40:16 +0000

It works great and covers all the media I currently use, and has more
media sources if I get into making some videos myself.

Rating: 5 / 5

By: M. Andrews

M. Andrews — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:41:30 +0000

I like JVC products inspite of the fact that they don't seem to last very long. I've had three of their basic dvd players thus far and I have one of their digital TVs. Clearly I like the picture quality of their products.

So when I went blu-ray I bought this player. I like it, I like the quick load times and the picture looks great. I am not, however, impressed with the sound. On my JVC digital TV I've had to re-adjust the sound level to 25 where before with a basic dvd player it was 15.

The sound is clear and definite but the volume must be adjusted up. The digital that I own the level limit is 50. I primarily listen to my discs at 25 or 30. This will go into huge consideration when I up grade and most likely not with another JVC.

Good sound quality is just as important as picture quality. Rating: 3 / 5