Blu Ray Player

We have two TVs, 19 and 24" and a BluRay player, all three items came with a wall brick, all three are Insignia brand from Best Buy, total consumption is less than 100 watts.

The front and rear sets are connected by a good quality HDMI cable (45')and a 120 vac powered splitter which is powered by our built in inverter when needed. This setup was to enable us to have two sets showing the same program front and rear.

We often have our early teen grand kids with us and need the extra seating capacity and because we like to take movies and old TV shows with us when we travel and buy BluRay for the S&B.

When I researched this setup, I got all sorts of misleading and/or very expensive suggestions and lots of assumptions which were mostly erroneous. Please take the time and research the equipment needed and the prices, TV sets that operate on 12 volt batteries or 120 volt wall power can be one and the same. We have been running electronics that have removable wall bricks for years on our house batteries without any problems.

I was shopping for the BluRay player and asked a sale clerk about ones with wall bricks, she told me flatly that no such thing existed. I turned the player I had just picked up around and low and behold there was the std 12vdc input socket. However, for obvious reasons BluRay players do not have coax connections and the one I bought only had one HDMI output, therefore the need for the splitter.

Good Luck and happy viewing during your travels.

thanks, but VLC seems to be working fine.
bumpy

Bumpyroad wrote:

Tom_M wrote:

Bumpyroad wrote:
evidently win 8 does not come with a built in DVD player. any suggestions for a cheap one out there?
and I found DVDs to be as available as are Blue Ray ones, at a lower price. just bought season 6 of SOA at Best Buy in standard DVD.

bumpy

If you are talking about software to play DVDs, try VLC.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

If your computer does not have a built in DVD player you can buy an external one that plugs into a USB port.

thanks, have the player internal & external but evidently win 8 lacks a player.
bumpy

Windows Media Player plays DVDs. Since it was not included with Win 8 you should be able to download it from Microsoft.If not, there are many software DVD players for Windows - just Google and you will find many free ones. If they don't work with Win 8, then there is a big problem with Win 8.

Tom_M wrote:

Bumpyroad wrote:
evidently win 8 does not come with a built in DVD player. any suggestions for a cheap one out there?
and I found DVDs to be as available as are Blue Ray ones, at a lower price. just bought season 6 of SOA at Best Buy in standard DVD.

bumpy

If you are talking about software to play DVDs, try VLC.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

If your computer does not have a built in DVD player you can buy an external one that plugs into a USB port.

thanks, have the player internal & external but evidently win 8 lacks a player.
bumpy

Bumpyroad wrote:
evidently win 8 does not come with a built in DVD player. any suggestions for a cheap one out there?
and I found DVDs to be as available as are Blue Ray ones, at a lower price. just bought season 6 of SOA at Best Buy in standard DVD.

bumpy

If you are talking about software to play DVDs, try VLC.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

If your computer does not have a built in DVD player you can buy an external one that plugs into a USB port.

BEDOUINSHEIK wrote:
I have a Mercedes Winnebago Sprint / Itasca Era and it has two HDTV TV's. It comes with a DVD player, but it does not have Blu Ray capability. Most DVD's are Blu Ray these days. What type player should I get; I understand that power supply is an issue. HELP!!!

Even though there are many Blu Ray disks out there you can generally still get the title in the older digital DVD format. I personally have quit buying most Blu Ray disks due to the fact they won't generally sell the Blu Ray disk by itself. They also include a digital DVD copy as well. Recently I was going to buy the new 300 movie in Blu Ray and they wanted $29.95 for the Blu Ray because it also included a digital copy as well. So I bought the old format for $14.95. The clerk at WalMart told me that a lot of people were doing that because of the bundling. I bought a few Blu Ray disks from Amazon where you just get the Blu Ray disk. In a few more years the DVD are going to go the way of cassette tapes due to streaming. JMHO.

BEDOUINSHEIK wrote:
I have a Mercedes Winnebago Sprint / Itasca Era and it has two HDTV TV's. It comes with a DVD player, but it does not have Blu Ray capability. Most DVD's are Blu Ray these days. What type player should I get; I understand that power supply is an issue. HELP!!!

Get a Blu-Ray player. A DVD player will only play DVD, a Blu-Ray on the other hand plays both DVD & Blu.
If there is a power supply question in this equation. Purchase an inverter & run your system in that way.
I have a 200 watt, modified sine inverter that powers both my TV & Blu-Ray at the same time.

My 10 year old B was equipped with a DVD/CD player and a LCD tv all in one. It didn't have a digital tuner, so at first we used one of those box converters. But, age has caught up with it and costs have dropped on all that stuff, so.... We bought a 20" led tv and a BluRay player with built in wifi. They are the same make and this lets 1 remote run both. I went with Samsung, it has both hdmi and USB inputs, to go with the standard cable input from the antenna. A $25 swivel mount keeps it tucked out of the way when driving and in view to the front and rear. The BluRay player has USB input and wifi with built in Netflix, I download tv and movies to thumb drives and can watch them. With the original built in speakers, it's got great sound.

I forgot to add the tv was $160 and the BluRay was $70

evidently win 8 does not come with a built in DVD player. any suggestions for a cheap one out there?
and I found DVDs to be as available as are Blue Ray ones, at a lower price. just bought season 6 of SOA at Best Buy in standard DVD.

bumpy

Last year I got a Tmvel All Region Free DVD 3D/2D Blu-ray Player for $144.99 on Amazon. I get some DVDs right from the UK for favorite programs and need the all region feature. It runs on ac, I havent tried running it and the TV and Dish receiver off the 12V converter yet.