Good media players for Full HD TV?

[rawfa]

Hi guys,

My 55 inch HDTV supports a lot of formats and codecs but DTS is not one of them and many MKV files I have actually use DTS. So I´m looking into buying a powerful media player to have hooked into my TV at all times with the following must haves:

- HDMI out (I don´t want streaming)
- USB input so that I may plug a usb stick with films and photos to watch
- DTS support (as well as all the general formars and codecs)
- Wifi (in case I want to use netflix and other services like it)
- Powerfull processor to handle heavy full HD files
- A good graphics´card (I´ve tried some generic media players that had all the items above but graphics were so but that the video it reproduced didn´t show the quality it actually had)
- Subtitle support

I´ve read good things about the WD Live TV and the Sony´s media player too (I cannot recall how it´s called right now).

 

[atarijedi]

How much are you willing to spend?

For around $300 you can get a Zotac ZBOX, there are numerous models with various features. I'm getting one of the blu-ray ones for my parents and I am going to throw XBMC on it.

XBMC even has PVR functionality as of version 12 which should be out soon, so if you get one of those USB TV tuners, you could add that.

 

[ErikTande]

I have a WDTV live, it's awesome. Plays pretty much everything you throw at it.