I'm looking for a blu-ray player with these specific features.

[eppie]

Update on this:

I finally got around to finding what I wanted, and it's the LG BP120. I got it for $68 at Wal-Mart.

It plays high-def MKV movies from an external HDD quite well, and the menu interface is great. 10/10 would buy again.

Coming from someone who still uses an old fashioned cathode ray TV set.

If you just want to see DIVX etc files on your TV (which in your case is a very new model) why don't you just stick in a USB drive or stick in your TV and play the files? Why do you need a blue ray player for that?