Digital Media Players Questions & Answers

Playing HD movies or Bluray is not too difficult for HTPC/ desktop/ laptop with good configurations, but to me, using HD players is still the best & cheapest method to fully integrate and support with other peripherals as a whole to create a home theater system. Commonly, those peripherals are TV, amply, speakers, hd players and so on. So anyone knows well about hd players? I want to ask because there are some good and cheap (cheap here means affordable/ reasonable price with well-built quality, not low quality) out there. I came up with a short list after researching the market:

1. HD Life v5 (Egreat)
2. HD Pro i5 (Datage)
3. HiMedia HD600B
4. MED500X2 (Mede8er)
5. S7A Pro/ Ultra (Egreat)

So, what would I choose?

These ones above are equipped with one of the latest chipsets from Realtek in 2011, while Sigma 8655 was released in 2009.

Sigma is mostly seen in high-end players whereas Realtek is seen in inexpensive players, though it seems that they're nearly the same in media performance.

For more information and details, visit www.iboum.com as it's a website I found during my research that satisfies me with the presentation of all hd players and their up-to-date data.