Kogan intros AU$349 Profile 1.1 Blu-ray player for Australia

by Darren Murph, posted Nov 20th 2008 at 9:29AM

Well, would you have a look at this. Out of seemingly nowhere, Aussies have been shown a remarkably affordable option for diving into the deep, crystal clear world of Blu-ray. Kogan Technologies is just 24 hours away from releasing its apparently unnamed Profile 1.1 Blu-ray player in the aforesaid continent / country, and with it will come 1080p output, an HDMI 1.3 port, DVD upconversion and Dolby TrueHD / DTS-HD decoding. The online-only e-tailer is taking orders for the unit as we speak, and for just AU$349 (that's $218 in greenbacks), we can definitely see it moving quite a few units.

[Via ITWire]

Filed under: Blu-ray, Players, Others

Tags: Australia, bd, Blu-ray, Blu-ray player, Blu-rayPlayer, Kogan, Kogan Technologies, KoganTechnologies, profile 1.1, Profile1.1

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daaper @ Nov 20th 2008 12:52PM

Nice design, in theory, but I wonder if that blue will get annoying. My old JVC dvd player had a blue light in the tray and that thing got old pretty fast when the lights were out. Hopefully you can turn it off.

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Gekke Henkie @ Nov 20th 2008 4:14PM

You guys forgot the most importent thing:

It is currently the only REGION-FREE player for Blu-ray discs out-of-the-box in the world!

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Multi-format-mayhem @ Nov 20th 2008 4:49PM

The LG BH200 is/was too.

Dual format (grab a stack of HD DVD high def goodness for pennies).

Region free Blu-ray by simple remote code,
PAL enabling by simple remote code,
SD DVD region-free by one-time data CD hack.

Full spec (ie all HD audio bitstreaming etc etc) too.

By far the best of the bunch to date.

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shawnmos @ Nov 20th 2008 5:08PM

The LG BH100 was also region free, but it's a profile 1.0 player.

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dj496 @ Nov 20th 2008 4:25PM

Wow, it's very good progress indeed. Players in oz are so expensive. Hopefully it will help drive blu-ray adoption Down Under.

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Gekke Henkie @ Nov 20th 2008 5:48PM

@Multi-format-mayhem:
That's why I said 'out-of-the-box'...

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unicode787plus @ Nov 20th 2008 11:43PM

Is it for sale now? I want one, since you claim it's REGION-FREE!

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Gekke Henkie @ Nov 21st 2008 4:45AM

Yes, it's for sale now; just hit the read-link...

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hazzad @ Nov 21st 2008 4:25PM

You guys do realise that we have a Soniq Bluray player for sale in AU for about $249 at JB hifi right? Furthermore where on the Kogan website does it say that its Bluray multiregion?

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