DViCO's TViX-HD 6500 eats Blu-ray rips for breakfast, spits 'em out via HDMI

by Darren Murph posted Oct 17th 2008 at 11:31AM

Nearly two full years after DViCO introduced its TiVX 5010-P HDTV recorder, along comes a new duo in the line to finally up the ante. But it's not the infantile TViX R-2230 ($399; pictured) that we're really interested in -- though it can play back ripped VOB / ISO files. Rather, it's the $599 TViX-HD 6500, which also includes support for playing back Blu-ray backups via HDMI. We'll spare you the legal spill, but for those too frightened to potentially scratch their precious Blu-ray Discs, this looks to be the unit for you. So far as specs go, you'll find HDMI 1.3, component, S-Video and composite jacks, support for a smorgasbord of file formats, a USB port for loading up media from flash drives / external HDDs and an optional digital TV tuner to boot. Why do we get the feeling both of these things will be next to impossible to locate in the US?

[Thanks, Geller]

Filed under: Blu-ray, Media streamers, Other formats, Other hardware, Others

Tags: bd, blu-ray, DViCO, hd media server, HdMediaServer, media server, MediaServer, R-2230, TViX, TViX R-2230, TViX-HD 6500, Tvix-hd6500, TvixR-2230

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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glenn s @ Oct 17th 2008 12:06PM

Haha. S-video and composite jacks. Awesome. Because after I shell out $600 for this baby, $150 for a blu-ray drive for my PC, and maybe $200 for hard drives to store a blu-ray library, plus oodles for the movies themselves, I really want to downscale it to 480i resolution and watch on my grainy old 20" CRT.

Seriously, what were they thinking?

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squiggleslash @ Oct 17th 2008 1:12PM

It also has component and HDMI jacks.

I would imagine they were thinking "Sometimes someone is going to watch this on a non-HDTV, so it'd be nice if they could unplug it, take it to the bedroom with the SDTV, and plug it in there."

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glenn s @ Oct 17th 2008 2:00PM

@squiggleslash

Yes, maybe you are right, but that has to be a pretty small minority of people willing to spend $600 on a piece of tech like this before replacing the TV in the bedroom with a medium sized LCD for about the same money.

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Jon @ Oct 17th 2008 12:10PM

Is this an updated release of the 6500? Hasn't this been out for about a year now? The 41xx/51xx series from a couple years ago can also play Blu Ray rips.

As for the S-video, etc. ports, the Tvix boxes play all kinds of media files (avi, mp4, mkv, etc), not just blu-ray, so for some people it might make sense.

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