Dune BD Prime 3 Network Blu-Ray Video Player

High Quality Blu-Ray HD movies

As a premium Blu-Ray player the Dune Prime doesn't dissappoint. For the quality it produces you will be more than extatic in its value. With movies in super detailed 1080p, it will look great in your living room with your HD TV or home cinema setup.

*Please note that to make use of Blu-Ray you will need a 2 GB memory card - these are available as an exlusive offer with the Dune Prime 3.0, see exclusive offers after the product description.

Award winning

Having received huge praise from accross the world the Dune Prime is a high end Blu-Ray player and home network entertainment system.

Upgradable

The Dune Prime 3 has the ability to be fitted with a 2.5" hard drive. With this installed you can store moves and entertainment right under your TV!

Applications:

Dune BD Prime is to date the most affordable multifunctional Full HD (1080p) solution with Blu-Ray format support.

Playback:

• Playback of retail Blu-ray and DVD discs
• Playback of full Blu-ray structures from HDD and network (with Blu-ray menu, BD-J, BonusView, BD-Live)
• Playback of video, music, photos from any media source (HDD, PC, NAS, etc)
• Optical disc formats: data discs (CD/DVD/BD) (MP3, JPEG, etc), Audio CD (PCM/DTS), DVD-Video (retail and user-authored discs), Blu-ray (retail and user-authored discs)
• Support for modern video file formats (MKV, H.264, VC1, etc) with very high bitrate (up to 50 Mbit/s and higher)
• Dune Network Playback Accelerator: special optimizations ensuring best-in-class network playback performance for the Sigma Designs 864x platform and enabling smooth playback of any supported kind of media content via any network protocol (including NFS and SMB) in both 100 Mbit/s and 1000 Mbit/s networks.
• Dimensions: 420 mm (width) x 262 mm (depth) x 50 mm (height)

Specification:

• Processor: Sigma Designs 8642
• Memory: RAM 512 MB, system Flash: 128 MB, expandable with a HDD partition or USB flash drive (2GB recommended)
• Media sources: built-in Blu-ray drive, external HDD (eSATA, USB), external optical drive (eSATA, USB), USB devices (USB flash drive, USB card reader, etc), PC and NAS in local network (SMB, NFS, UPnP, HTTP), internal 2.5" SATA HDD (option)
• Video codecs: MPEG2, MPEG4, XVID, WMV9, VC1, H.264
• Video file formats: MKV, MPEG-TS, MPEG-PS, M2TS, VOB, AVI, MOV, MP4, QT, ASF, WMV, Blu-Ray-ISO, BDMV, DVD-ISO, VIDEO_TS
• Video output modes: wide range of supported modes and resolutions, including 23.976p, 24p, PAL, NTSC
• Audio codecs: AC3 (Dolby Digital), DTS, MPEG, AAC, LPCM, WMA, WMAPro, EAC3 (Dolby Digital Plus), Dolby True HD, DTS HD High Resolution Audio, DTS HD Master Audio, FLAC, multichannel FLAC
• Audio file formats: MP3, MPA, M4A, WMA, FLAC, WAV, DTS-WAV, DTS, AC3, AAC
• Pass-through and decoding of HD audio formats, including Dolby TrueHD and DTS HD Master Audio
• Picture file formats: JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF
• Subtitle formats: SRT, SUB, text/SSA/ASS (MKV), VobSub (MP4), PGS (full Blu-ray mode)
• Playlist file formats: M3U, PLS
• Filesystems: FAT16/FAT32 (read-write), EXT2/EXT3 (read-write), NTFS (readonly)

Other features:

• Upscaling: high-quality upscaling and deinterlacing of DVD and other SD content to HD resolution (up to 1080p)
• Access to network: browser of network shares (SMB, UPnP), user-defined shortcuts to network shares (SMB, NFS), links to HTTP media streams
• NAS function: SMB and FTP access from network to the player's attached storage devices
• IPTV: direct playback and recording of multicast IPTV streams (raw-UDP and RTP-over-UDP, SD and HD)
• Internet radio: HTTP/MP3
• Powerful file manager (copy, move, delete, rename, etc), built-in FTP and SMB file server (NAS function)
• Photo viewer: slide-show function, picture transition eff ects, picture rotation
• Playlists: music/photos/video, user-defined and automatically generated playlists, repeat and shuffle
• FullHD-quality, fast, convenient, customizable interface (with covert-art and icon browsing support)
• Future (free f/w upgrade): Flash Lite 3 support
• Future (free f/w upgrade): Netflix support (for the USA market)

Dimensions

• 420mm (width) x 262mm (depth) x 50mm (height)

Media files playback support:

• Sources:
            o Internal DVD drive.
            o USB mass storage devices (USB HDD, USB flash memory).
            o USB DVD drives.
            o NFS network folders.
            o SMB network folders.
            o HTTP URLs (limited support).
• Containers:
            o MPEG (MPEG-TS, MPEG-PS, VOB, M2TS) (typical file extensions: .MPG, .TS, .M2TS, .TP, .VOB).
            o AVI (typical file extensions: .AVI).
            o MOV, MP4 (typical file extensions: .MOV, .MP4, .QT).
            o MKV (typical file extensions: .MKV).
            o ASF (typical file extensions: .ASF, .WMV).
            o DVD-ISO, VIDEO_TS (DVD-Video playback, including DVD menu support).
            o Raw video.
            o Raw audio (typical file extensions: .WAV, .MP3).
• Video codecs:
            o MPEG2.
            o MPEG4.
            o DivX.
            o XVID.
            o WMV9.
            o VC1.
            o H.264.
• Audio codecs:
            o AC3 (DD).
            o EAC3 (DD+).
            o DTS.
            o MPEG (layers 1/2/3).
            o AAC.
            o LPCM.
            o WMA.
            o WMAPro
• Embedded subtitle formats:
            o In MKV: plain text, SSA/ASS.
            o In MP4: VOB
• External subtitle formats:
            o SRT.
• External audio streams:
            o AC3.
            o DTS.

IPTV:

• Protocols:
            o Multicast UDP (raw).
            o Multicast RTP.
• Format:
            o MPEG-TS container.
            o MPEG2 video codec (SD and HD resolutions).

Extended set of supported video modes:

• HDMI:
            o 480i, 480p (60 Hz)
            o 576i, 576p (50 Hz)
            o 720p (50 Hz, 60 Hz)
            o 1080i (50 Hz, 60 Hz)
            o 1080p (24 Hz, 25 Hz, 30 Hz, 50 Hz, 60 Hz)
            o 1024×768, 1280×1024, 1280×768, 1280×960, 1360×768, 1366×768, 1400×1050, 1440×900, 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 1920×1200 (60 Hz)
• Component:
            o PAL
            o NTSC
            o 480p (60 Hz)
            o 576p (50 Hz)
            o 720p (24 Hz, 25 Hz, 30 Hz, 50 Hz, 60 Hz)
            o 1080i (48 Hz, 50 Hz, 60 Hz)
            o 1080p (24 Hz, 25 Hz, 30 Hz, 50 Hz, 60 Hz)
• Composite:
            o PAL
            o NTSC
      * Note: some video modes may be not supported - it depends on the player mode, type of data being played back, and peculiarities of video hardware connected to the player.