@tsampa
Are you suggesting something like a SONY UBP-X800 universal player
I was thinking of the even cheaper X700 universal transport! Not something you would want to show off to your mates, but it does a remarkably good job of getting the bits off the disk and down the HDMI cables. The remote is extremely basic, for example you cannot use it to directly select a track by its number, and its build quality is cheap!