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Vizio VBR100 Review

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Vizio VBR100 Review
Vizio VBR100

There numerous positive Vizio VBR100 reviews posted by customers on Dell's web site, where the product is being sold for a rock-bottom price. Consumers say the video quality of the Vizio VBR100 is excellent, although some Vizio VBR100 reviewes commenting on the Walmart site are not as impressed, noting issues such as difficulty replaying movies and problems with the remote working properly; one customer also complains of loud grinding noises. \

The Vizeio VBR100 is a profile 2.0 player with an HDMI output, component output, and coaxial and optical audio outputs. The player supports Blu-ray movie discs, DVD movies, audio CDs, and recordable CDs. Although it supports Dolby Digital, DTS and Dolby TrueHD, it does not support DTS-HD.

The VBR100's super-low price is attractive, no doubt, but this product may be a bit of a gamble given some of the quality issues we've read about in consumer reviews. Still, at this price, you may want to take a chance with the VBR100.

By Cheapism editors – September 13, 2011
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