These cheap Blu-ray players keep popping up! A new one announced today is the AMEX DIGITAL Blu-ray DVD Player BD-P1 It does look a nice tidy little unit. Unfortunately it looks like its aimed at the American market with a price tag of $199. Pity the Pound Dollar exchange rate sucks at the moment. It doesn’t appear to support BD Live and currently runs profile 1.1

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Specs:

Take full advantage of the high-definition revolution with this Blu-ray Disc player. It supports both single- and dual-layer BD-R and BD-RE discs, as well as BD-ROM discs, and provides decoders for Dolby Digital and DTS formats.

Blu-ray Disc format-compatible for high-definition movie playback with resolution up to 5 times greater than DVD via the HDMI 1.3 interface.

Delivers greatly enhanced video performance with standard DVDs by upconverting their video resolution to HDTV-compliant 720p, 1080i or 1080p via the HDMI 1.3 interface.

- Plays BD-ROM,BD-R,BD-R3.0,BD-JAVA 1.1,SUN-JAVA discs; Backward compatible with DVD, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD and CD-R/RW discs; compatible with MP3, WMA and JPEG formats.
- Built-in decoders for next-generation Dolby Digital Plus and DTS-HD high-resolution surround, plus lossless Dolby TrueHD.
- Built-in Ethernet and USB 2.0 ports for the future network connection and firmware upgrades.
- 10-bit/108MHz video digital-to-analog (D/A) conversion.
- 24-bit/192kHz audio digital-to-analog (D/A)converter.
- Display: Color VFD Display.
- HDMI version 1.3 with Deep Color support.
- Outputs: 1*component video, 1*composite video, 1*HDMI, 1*stereo audio, 1*optical digital audio,1*Coaxial , 1*7.1ch audio(optional)

Full press release here.