3.1/3.2/3.3/3.4 – IDENTIFYING APPROPRIATE PLAYBACK SOFTWARE AND DISPLAY DEVICE, AND AJUSTING SETTINGS TO MEET NEEDS

VLC media player is a free and open-source, portable, cross-platform media player and streaming media server developed by the Video LAN project. VLC is available for desktop operating systems and mobile platforms, such as Android, iOS, Ti zen, Windows 10 Mobile and 

this is used to play back videos  

BDL6524ET is compatible with 

 Windows 8, Windows 7, Vista, XP, Mac OS and Linux.

HDMI VGA Support which is the newest one so far its supported by so many devices 
i also will be getting the mac  mirror to the Philips  so i can see exactly what to see.