Ports: 1x HDMI out, 1x Composite video out, 1x Coaxial digital audio out, 1x RCA Stereo audio out (L/R), 1x Ethernet LAN port, 1x USB port (for service only)
“First let me start off by saying that I never buy B,C, list Electronics brand’s , I was reading this article in Sound &Vision magazine, The story was raving about the Seiki 4k blu ray player reviews, so I purchased a unit,I was blown away, how great the video processing up converting was , the colors excellent, perfect for DVD library. You can adjust this seiki player to show DVD clear as a blu ray disc… 5 stars performance Seiki in taking a page from Samsung book. Watch out.” - Amazon Customer “Sid”
★ “Great no frills player. Key selling point for me is the ability to make it Region Free for DVD and being able to switch Blu-ray regions with the remote hack (when player is on home screen press set-up on remote then key in 8520, set DVD to 0 for all region DVD, on Blu-ray setting 1 is US, 2 Europe).” - Amazon Customer “Alan”
★★★★ “Very bad DVD player , plastic material , components Connection is flush with hardware so u need a special ( red / black yellow ) type to push in player -hdmi connection Ok tho / set up @ menu fair -but I had trouble in freezing images / plus Quality wasn’t there threw in trash after - 1 hour / shipping great - as well as packing” - Amazon Customer “the ghost-------------------”
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If I 1) had a 4K TV, 2) had a reason to have so many foreign Blu-Rays/DVDs, or 3) had the money for this, I’d be all over it. Sadly, none of those are true, so it’ll have to be a meh from me. Really cool thingy tho.
As an elderly billionaire with triple citizenship I find it infuriating when I can’t watch my shows because I am in the wrong country… my day is ruined if I can’t binge on some Matlock or Murder She Wrote!!! That is why I love this Seiki Region-Free 4K Up-Converting Blu-Ray Player!!! It doesn’t matter if I am in the UK directing my media empire to convince the masses to exit the EU, or in the states directing my media empire to convince the masses to think my way, I can break out the Seiki Region-Free 4K Up-Converting Blu-Ray Player and get lost in Ms. Lansburys eyes.
In for 4 an of course I got VMP, you don’t get to be a billionaire by wasting money on shipping.
@cshillaber Hope you are well Mr. Murdoch. After leaving one of your publications, I have so much to thank you for…like my career and soul. Say hi to Jerry Hall for me.
@cshillaber WTF are doing in Cabot Cove anyway? It’s the damn murder capitol of the USA. Stay away if you want to live. Same for that death island in the Caribbean, Ste. Marie. And stay away from Fortitude too. They’re dropping like flies there.
for minimum wage, I will be happy to be your cabin boy and adjust and focus your out frame movies. (photo a few decage old) http://imgur.com/90QRKJy:rofl:
From Wikipedia “DVD region codes are a digital rights management technique…” so if we’re going to by-pass digital rights, and not waste time “waiting for sketchy, mediocre-quality pirated files…”, just head over to Easynews. It’s usenet with an http interface that allows you to see a thumbnail and language of a movie before you download.
@Kyser_Soze one thing is outright piracy, the other is the legal purchase of a product and the corresponding viewing of the product in a region it was not originally intended to be viewed in.
@jbartus Also, if you watch a movie on HBO, how do you know THEY paid the royalty? If I get a movie from Easynews, how do I know they didn’t? In both cases, they are paid subscription services.
And when you buy blank media, there is a bit of the price that goes to content creators even if you don’t put their content on the media, so they have been paid, they just want MORE!
@Kyser_Soze because HBO is a business whose entire existence is predicated upon keeping film distribution companies happy with them. You know damned well that Easynews isn’t paying those royalties because that isn’t their business and as far as your blank media argument goes, those few cents are a pittance at best.
If you want to fool yourself somehow into believing that what you’re doing is justifiable and right, that’s your complex, but don’t expect me to buy into it.
@Kyser_Soze If you want to steal, then steal. Just don’t expect us to accept your rationalizations.
Region coding is about rights management, because different entities can own distribution rights in different regions. It’s not about the viewer paying; the viewer still pays. It’s about who gets paid.
It’s an antiquated notion, born in the days when releases could be staggered around the world. Region coding is optional with Blu-ray, and half the time the discs themselves are region free.
As a practical matter, people who buy region-free players do so because what they want to buy isn’t available in their region. Unless the price or quality is substantially better, it doesn’t make sense to import something that can be purchased locally. And those British Blu-ray cases are ugly.
Buying something from another region isn’t the same as stealing it, no matter how much you want it to be.
My region-free DVD player is dying a slow death, and I would love to have a region-free Blu-Ray player, so I’m in for one. I’ve bought quite a few DVD sets off amazon.co.uk and now I can go 1080p. (Check out some of the older David Attenborough documentaries… he’s a master.)
I could appreciate the 4K up scaling compared to my Sony BDPS280 and with HDMI audio frequently conking out, I am tempted. But after trying to consolidate remotes with my SEIKI 4K TV a year ago (and relegating it to a 4K monitor instead) I think I will pass and wait for the smart app Samsung Bluray players at ShopKo to go below this price.
@ponagathos That may happen, but physical media is dying. I don’t there will be nearly as many 4K or future format releases.
People are forsaking the quality of Blu-ray for the convenience of streaming even now, and, as bandwidth increases, that quality gap will get smaller and smaller.
I just bought a Blu-Ray player today from Costco, for $90, iirc. They had a cheaper $60 one. What sold me on the more expensive one? It was a Sony, and could play downloaded PS3 games, if you have a PS4 controller.
Well as the bluray player stopped playing dvds a week or so ago then I take this as fate that meh have this for sale and I bit uncovered-tedious-substance
I’ve long abandoned physical media, but my wife continues to bring them home, which forces me to rip them, then copy the movie to my media server, and stream it via my smartTV.
Wondering if this is worth my first $25 coupon… I’ll let it ride and see if a sellout decides for me.
It’s cool that you’re finally selling a Blu-Ray player. And we need one. But I don’t give a shit about that region business (yeah, some day it might be an issue, but not so far). And you haven’t hit the sweet spot for us. And we have have other stuff to spend money on. $15-$25 sounds about right. Get back to me on this. Thanks.
Tempted at $38 since the VMP is currently active. And we need a disposable player for our off the grid cabin.
But holding me back - brand name Blu-Ray players are available from our local sleazy appliance/electronics chain for $48. (They even have a Sanyo (Panasonic) plain old DVD player for 14 bucks.) Could care less about the 4K-upconvert crap. And the region-free crap. As @joelmw says above, $25 and it would be a no-brainer.
I was doing the initial set-up settings for this blu ray player and when I went to the TV System menu where the choices were NTSC, PAL and Multi, I selected Multi to see what it would do. A message then appeared on my screen saying unsupported signal, check device. I tired to go back to the set-up menu but it won’t let me. It just shows a blank screen with that message. Anyone know how to fix this?
No reset button. I’ll try the computer monitor – my laptop has an HDMI input. I called customer service and they said it’s a problem with my TV and I need to fix that, but everything else hooked up to my TV works fine.
Yes. I didn’t mean to sound all cunty about it but no one held a gun to your head and made you select multi. Just sayin’ (in a somewhat passive aggressive tone).
Anyways - Try using the composite video out and not the HDMI - you’ll most likely be able to access the menu that way on your TV and revert the setting back to NTSC. Then switch back to the HDMI cable.
Specs
Condition: New
Warranty: 1 Year Seiki
Estimated Delivery: 7/15 - 7/18
Shipping: $5 or free with VMP
What’s in the Box?
1x Blu-ray player
1x Remote
Pictures
Blu-ray player
Remote
Back
Front
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Cool but Meh
Meh player well played meh
Not sure, I would be more interested if it was a Panaphonics, Magnetbox, or Sorny brand.
/giphy sorny
@liz As a libarian, I say go with Sorny.
@Uther You should hold out for a Proptronics or this.
Some people might confuse this for a 4K Blu-Ray player…
@Jetlag From the specs: “HDMI video: 4K” but the description says up-converts to 4k. Best Buy has 52 discs that are 4k Blu-ray, will this play them?
@Kyser_Soze No it will not play 4K disc.
But does it do 3D?
@russellwilde No, but who cares? 3D is trash.
@thatmovieguy Welcome to meh, fucker.
@therealjrn Thanks, buddy.
Will it play meh laser disc?
I’d buy it if it came with a blu-ray rewinder.
If I 1) had a 4K TV, 2) had a reason to have so many foreign Blu-Rays/DVDs, or 3) had the money for this, I’d be all over it. Sadly, none of those are true, so it’ll have to be a meh from me. Really cool thingy tho.
/giphy complete ditto
@jawshark87 You don’t need many foreign discs; you only need one you really want to watch.
Damnit—I just paid about 4x this a week ago for a (modified) region-free Sony BDP-S3500 from Bombay Electronics!
I’m giving this a score of “SCSSSS” for Scsssweet!
Tempting. Could I hook this up to a computer and use it as an external player?
@JT954 No. The HDMI on your laptop or computer is an HDMI out.
@mike808 my laptop has an HDMI in port.
Considered getting this. I do have a Seiki TV, just not 4K, and PS3 for blu-rays. Meh, maybe next time.
As an elderly billionaire with triple citizenship I find it infuriating when I can’t watch my shows because I am in the wrong country… my day is ruined if I can’t binge on some Matlock or Murder She Wrote!!! That is why I love this Seiki
Region-Free 4K Up-Converting Blu-Ray Player!!! It doesn’t matter if I am in the UK directing my media empire to convince the masses to exit the EU, or in the states directing my media empire to convince the masses to think my way, I can break out the Seiki
Region-Free 4K Up-Converting Blu-Ray Player and get lost in Ms. Lansburys eyes.
In for 4 an of course I got VMP, you don’t get to be a billionaire by wasting money on shipping.
@cshillaber Hope you are well Mr. Murdoch. After leaving one of your publications, I have so much to thank you for…like my career and soul. Say hi to Jerry Hall for me.
@cshillaber WTF are doing in Cabot Cove anyway? It’s the damn murder capitol of the USA. Stay away if you want to live. Same for that death island in the Caribbean, Ste. Marie. And stay away from Fortitude too. They’re dropping like flies there.
@cshillaber this 1%er prolly has a suitcase full of power converters.
If I hadn’t locked down a PS4 for my birthday, this would have been a winner. Great deal.
Region Free, Rule Free, Live Free. I yield to no Blu-Ray Disc.
Well, I do now 'cause my wife bought the PS4, but you get what I mean.
Considering it; there are some anime and movie disks that are a bear to find in Region 1, much easier and cheaper in other regions.
But what it the ethernet port used for on this model? Is it like the USB port, for service only?
/buy
@uwacn It worked! Your order number is: flustered-vibrant-muscle
/image flustered-vibrant-muscle
for minimum wage, I will be happy to be your cabin boy and adjust and focus your out frame movies. (photo a few decage old) http://imgur.com/90QRKJy:rofl:
/buy
@2palms It worked! Your order number is: perceptive-inexpensive-bee
/image perceptive-inexpensive-bee
@mediocrebot
/giphy slow clap
Oh, a Seiki. Now you’re cooking with, well, Seiki.
First thumbing your nose at Canon MAP and now regionless disc players. Did you hire Henry David Thoreau as a buyer and I missed it?
From Wikipedia “DVD region codes are a digital rights management technique…” so if we’re going to by-pass digital rights, and not waste time “waiting for sketchy, mediocre-quality pirated files…”, just head over to Easynews. It’s usenet with an http interface that allows you to see a thumbnail and language of a movie before you download.
@Kyser_Soze Oh, a thumbnail of movies you’ve found on usenet, you say?
/giphy usenet thumbnail
@Kyser_Soze one thing is outright piracy, the other is the legal purchase of a product and the corresponding viewing of the product in a region it was not originally intended to be viewed in.
@jbartus
@jbartus Also, if you watch a movie on HBO, how do you know THEY paid the royalty? If I get a movie from Easynews, how do I know they didn’t? In both cases, they are paid subscription services.
And when you buy blank media, there is a bit of the price that goes to content creators even if you don’t put their content on the media, so they have been paid, they just want MORE!
@stinks The thumbnails look like this:
@Kyser_Soze because HBO is a business whose entire existence is predicated upon keeping film distribution companies happy with them. You know damned well that Easynews isn’t paying those royalties because that isn’t their business and as far as your blank media argument goes, those few cents are a pittance at best.
If you want to fool yourself somehow into believing that what you’re doing is justifiable and right, that’s your complex, but don’t expect me to buy into it.
@Kyser_Soze If you want to steal, then steal. Just don’t expect us to accept your rationalizations.
Region coding is about rights management, because different entities can own distribution rights in different regions. It’s not about the viewer paying; the viewer still pays. It’s about who gets paid.
It’s an antiquated notion, born in the days when releases could be staggered around the world. Region coding is optional with Blu-ray, and half the time the discs themselves are region free.
As a practical matter, people who buy region-free players do so because what they want to buy isn’t available in their region. Unless the price or quality is substantially better, it doesn’t make sense to import something that can be purchased locally. And those British Blu-ray cases are ugly.
Buying something from another region isn’t the same as stealing it, no matter how much you want it to be.
At least people who buy this player have great taste.
Oh wait. No, no they apparently don’t. Though, admittedly, these are also the people who paid full price.
@stinks Mulholland Drive has one of the steamiest lesbian sex scenes any mainstream movie has ever had, so maybe you’re missing something.
@PhotoJim I guess that’s missing from the Region 1 version?
And the slasher film has that Modern Family manny (as in male nanny, not the character named Manny) in it.
/buy
@craigthom It worked! Your order number is: barbarous-certain-mongoose
/image barbarous-certain-mongoose
My region-free DVD player is dying a slow death, and I would love to have a region-free Blu-Ray player, so I’m in for one. I’ve bought quite a few DVD sets off amazon.co.uk and now I can go 1080p. (Check out some of the older David Attenborough documentaries… he’s a master.)
what’s that meh? i couldn’t hear you all the way back there in 2008.
damn I really want this… I lived in the UK for a long time and I want to watch my dvds… hmmm…
garth marenghi’s dark place is so good
I could appreciate the 4K up scaling compared to my Sony BDPS280 and with HDMI audio frequently conking out, I am tempted. But after trying to consolidate remotes with my SEIKI 4K TV a year ago (and relegating it to a 4K monitor instead) I think I will pass and wait for the smart app Samsung Bluray players at ShopKo to go below this price.
Well, I have not bought a blue ray player so far. Maybe I should just wait for whatever 4K VR thingamagig catches on next.
@ponagathos That may happen, but physical media is dying. I don’t there will be nearly as many 4K or future format releases.
People are forsaking the quality of Blu-ray for the convenience of streaming even now, and, as bandwidth increases, that quality gap will get smaller and smaller.
I just bought a Blu-Ray player today from Costco, for $90, iirc. They had a cheaper $60 one. What sold me on the more expensive one? It was a Sony, and could play downloaded PS3 games, if you have a PS4 controller.
@haydesigner It’s Costco. Buy this one, return the Costco one.
Does this one play PS3 games, @vanslaterco?
@haydesigner are we talking disc or PSN downloads?
/buy
@Knightp It worked! Your order number is: aberrant-milky-smell
/image aberrant-milky-smell
Well as the bluray player stopped playing dvds a week or so ago then I take this as fate that meh have this for sale and I bit uncovered-tedious-substance
I’ve long abandoned physical media, but my wife continues to bring them home, which forces me to rip them, then copy the movie to my media server, and stream it via my smartTV.
Wondering if this is worth my first $25 coupon… I’ll let it ride and see if a sellout decides for me.
@ACraigL I’ve long abandoned physical body, but my wife continues to bring them home, which forces me to rip them…
It’s cool that you’re finally selling a Blu-Ray player. And we need one. But I don’t give a shit about that region business (yeah, some day it might be an issue, but not so far). And you haven’t hit the sweet spot for us. And we have have other stuff to spend money on. $15-$25 sounds about right. Get back to me on this. Thanks.
/giphy not the droids you’re looking for
I don’t own a TV, so for me its Meh…
but I did send this site to my Mom who absolutely adores useless gadgets. I think I just created a monster.
Honestly that is one ugly looking box. I wouldn’t want it sitting out next to the rest of my nice electronics.
@dansch07 I heard someone said the same thing about you.
Ehhhhhh. On the one hand, I don’t own a Blu-Ray player yet, and this one seems to be cheaper than most of Amazon’s offerings.
On the other, I can’t say I’ve felt any dissatisfaction with DVDs and streaming.
Tentative Meh. Maybe if it’s still available at Last Call.
In for one. Always good to have a spare young-greuling-front.
I’m oddly tempted despite not owning a TV. But meh is bound to sell one of those too some day, right? And maybe a sofa to watch it from?
I wonder how my VHS collection will look played on this? SaWEET I bet! Gilligan’s Island in 4K? Yes please…
Tempted at $38 since the VMP is currently active. And we need a disposable player for our off the grid cabin.
But holding me back - brand name Blu-Ray players are available from our local sleazy appliance/electronics chain for $48. (They even have a Sanyo (Panasonic) plain old DVD player for 14 bucks.) Could care less about the 4K-upconvert crap. And the region-free crap. As @joelmw says above, $25 and it would be a no-brainer.
I’d get this, but I’m holding out for the PS4K playing 4K media.
Physical media 4 ever.
congrats on sell out, I was just about to pull the trigger
Ah well. I was just about to get one too, I guess I came back too late.
I missed the sale. How much was this going for? $38?
@itsherediatary yes $38 + shipping/VMP
for some reason I didn’t pay attention or something but just realized Meh does whole digit prices, none of that $37.99 BS
@username It’s crucial.
/buy
@Foxgoku Sorry, the
/buycommand is currently only available to VMP members. Become a VMP.Hey, meh! I bought one of these and want you to know – you were wondering, right? – it’s worked great. Thanks for the deal.
I was doing the initial set-up settings for this blu ray player and when I went to the TV System menu where the choices were NTSC, PAL and Multi, I selected Multi to see what it would do. A message then appeared on my screen saying unsupported signal, check device. I tired to go back to the set-up menu but it won’t let me. It just shows a blank screen with that message. Anyone know how to fix this?
@rbaurer got a computer monitor that has an hdmi input that you can connect it to?
Alternately, is there a reset button on the back of the player? Maybe you can factory reset it that way.
No reset button. I’ll try the computer monitor – my laptop has an HDMI input. I called customer service and they said it’s a problem with my TV and I need to fix that, but everything else hooked up to my TV works fine.
@rbaurer It’s not a “problem” with your TV. You chose the wrong one. Your TV isn’t a “multi,” so you just screwed up.
@thatmovieguy
/giphy timely response
Doesn’t register on my laptop? I’ll have to figure something else out. This is lame.
@rbaurer
Guess now you know.
@MrsPavlov Same thing happened to you?
@MrsPavlov or are you just telling me what I now know?
@rbaurer
Yes. I didn’t mean to sound all cunty about it but no one held a gun to your head and made you select multi. Just sayin’ (in a somewhat passive aggressive tone).
Anyways - Try using the composite video out and not the HDMI - you’ll most likely be able to access the menu that way on your TV and revert the setting back to NTSC. Then switch back to the HDMI cable.
Should work.
@MrsPavlov ok. Thanks for the tip. I will see if it works
Go to composite ,and you can change settings I had to, then hdmi will work