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Vizio VBR110 Blu Ray Player Review

Vizio came out of nowhere to grab a large market share in HDTV market. Vizio started out as V Inc in 2002 as a consumer electronics company. From this modest beginning, Vizio grabbed large share of the HDTV market by selling their HDTVs at a substantially lower price. While the aggressive marketing and pricing has earned them a good share of the market, Vizio is known more for their pricing than their quality. With its increasing popularity, Vizio is branching out into other home theater equipments. Vizio has produced sound system on top of the Plasma and LCD HDTV sets. Now, Vizio has jumped into the Blu ray player market with VBR110.

Features

The Vizio VBR110 went on sale before the 2009 Holiday season. As Vizio’s first generation player, the VBR110 manages to pack a lot of features into low budget player. Like other manufacturers that were late to Blu ray player market, Vizio’s first generation player is more polished than most other first generation players. Vizio VBR110 is a Profile 2.0 compliant player with full support for BD-LIVE features. It is capable of decoding wide array of audio formats. The Vizio VBR110 can natively decode Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, DTS HD audio and regular DTS audio formats. While it lacks 5.1 or 7.1 channel analog outputs, it is capable of surround sound via receiver set up and HDMI connection. On top of Blu ray discs, the player is able to play H.264/AVC, JPEG, MP3, CD, and DVD formats as well. The VBR110 is capable of upconverting the DVD format like most other players. One glaring omission from Vizio VBR110 is the network streaming capabilities. Unlike most other players, VBR110 lacks Netflix, Amazon Video on Demand, or Youtube service. We’ve come to expect network streaming capabilities in most of the new Blu ray players.

Design

The overall design is fairly simple. The front face has glossy finish with “hidden” LCD area to the center right. The left side of the player consists of the disc tray, power button, and disc tray button. The disc tray has metallic gray finish that sets it apart from the rest of the player. This gives it a nice contrasting look to the player. Also, VBR110 lacks playback function buttons. This is curious omission as I’ve never seen a player without a basic playback function buttons on the unit itself. Instead, you will have to rely on your remote control for all operations. Make sure you always have extra batteries. While this is minor inconvenience, the lack of the player does add to cleaner overall look of the player. The back of the player contains the Ethernet, HDMI, USB, composite, and Digital Audio out ports. You have option of coaxial or optical for digital audio out ports. If you intend to utilize all the Profile 2.0 contents, you will need a storage USB device plugged into the USB port.

Remote Control

Like the overall design of the player, the remote control is very straight forward and simple to use. The top of the remote control is occupied by the power button, Blu ray Java application buttons, directional pad, and various set up buttons. The playback functions are located in the center of the remote control with large play/pause button. This is followed by volume buttons as well as other function buttons. The numeric buttons are located at the bottom of the player.
Overall, it’s very functional remote control. If you have large and complex home theater set up, you will want to invest in a good programmable remote control. Otherwise, the OEM remote is more than adequate for most users.

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Performance

The video processing performance of VBR110 was very good. You rarely see any new players that perform very poorly in terms of video processing like the earlier players. While viewing 2 movies, VBR110 showed no signs of artifacts or defects. The fast motion sequences showed no block ups or choppiness. Also, the video showed no patterns of moiré or jaggieness suffered by many of the earlier Blu ray players. What surprised me the most was the very decent loading time on the Blu ray discs. Even some of the newer players suffer when it comes to load time. The VBR110 was on par with the many Blu ray player from other leading manufacturers. One odd thing was the lack of firmware update via Ethernet. While I didn’t need firmware update, most other players offer easy firmware update via Ethernet. If you need firmware update in the future, you will need to download it and burn it on a disc media or use the USB flash drive.

Audio

As with video processing, the audio decoding had no problem with various formats tested. All of the decoding options were tested and shown to be defect free. The high definition audio formats DTS HD and Dolby TrueHD are natively decoded on the player without the help of receiver. This is pretty nice addition to the player competing in a value segment. However, you will be hard pressed to find any new players that lack native decoding option found on the Vizio VBR110. VBR110 is capable of playing MP3 files as well as regular audio CD. Overall, the audio performance is on par with other competing players in this price segment.

Overall Thoughts

The overall performance was very good for the player with lower than expected price tag. You can definitely spend more money and not get better performance or value from this player. However, there were few minor inconveniences that detract from the overall value of the player. First, it does not include any network streaming options. Vizio is addressing this by releasing a new network streaming capable player in near future. Second, it lacks multi-channel analog output on the player. Lastly, the lack of playback function buttons on the player itself was mild disappointment. If you can over look those flaws, this is an excellent player for the money.

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