i kena kastam one time for a AA batts charger. They keep on insist I need sirim letter for importing electronic stuff, coz if do not have, and if u plug it in wallplug, you might accidentaly blow up the whole malaysia. LOL

So end up how?

Tomorrow I am going to collect my player...

Roughly about RM650++ including shipping..
I got it from ideals.com.sg.. Received the item 2 weeks after I placed my order there..

Unfortunately this is my first player..
Ill do a short review on this player later

My PC is running out of space.. so I bought 1TB last month..
Im using that harddisk as a buffer for my download folder before extracting them..
So, I need to get another harddisk for this player.. Realizing that this player can play movies streaming from my PC smoothly, I defer my plan to next month lar. Raya neh nak pakai duit lagi lorr.. hoho!


Errk.. I managed to get pass the 'ketam', being held for couple of minutes.. Weird to know that your player didnt..
Sorry to hear that dude

what shipping? Ems speedpost/poslaju?

mine is SingPost

end up i spend the next 1 week running here and there for the letter of sirim. cost me nothing for the letter, but petrol spent on here and there loh. And not to mentioned countless phone/visit to plenty of authority.
I almost gave up and do not wan to take the charger edi, since I can easily buy it off store here.

Just came back from opis ketam. Kena 10% tax...TNS...

lucky no sirim involve.. Please do some review..

This post has been edited by aneip: Aug 24 2009, 11:25 AM

please review the unit with bdmv or bdiso playback.

10% is sales tax. Lucky lor, ketam din get SIRIM involved

The player cannot do BD ISO or BDMV with the current firmware. It is a *promised* feature in upcoming firmware...but dunno when...

if it can play M2TS properly (with proper audio track selection) maybe still can salvage it's functionality.. for the time being..

M2TS according to the reviews can play with proper audio changing.

But wat about those titles with so many smaller M2TS?

HD audio able to recognize selection and support? (to bitstream it to AVR)

as for many M2ts, if it's smart it will try to select the largest or next largest file, instead of start from the first M2TS..

If it can't do scaling then the viewable area will look small right ? Can only see big black bar on top and bottom for 16.9?
Anyone tried to do scaling ?

Ok, just played with the unit briefly. My first impression of it is that it is huge! It is about 2 WDTVs placed facing each other. Also the built quality of it is a bit on the lower end. The front panel of PlayOn looks cheap compared to the WDTV. Otherwise the built is quite solid and so are the jacks on the back. The remote is better than the WDTV is it is more comfortable held in the hand because of its larger size, but it has a very bright and annoying blue LED light whenever any key is pressed. On handling media files, I tested with Knowing BDMV and it didn't work as expected, but it was able to play the m2ts flawlessly with audio changing. I don't have an AVR right now so I am not sure if it will passthrough HD audio but according to the manual if HDMI RAW is selected in the menu it will. My unit is from the 2nd batch with the DTS downmix firmware and I can confirm that indeed does work. Also, it was able to playback a problematic mkv which hung and stuttered on the WDTV. That was all I manage to test tonight. Will further explore more tomorrow night when I have the time.

So, from my 15 minute hands-on, its for the PlayOn!HD.

This post has been edited by WereWolf84: Aug 24 2009, 10:24 PM

Didn't try RMVB files yet. Will try my Wifey's RMVB Cantonese serials tomorrow. BTW just to add, the earlier tests were done with external HDD. No lagg or stutter even with 28GB M2TS file.

go and try those 720p RMVB.. around 1+ GB size..

i never watch 720p RMVB... how the PQ compared to 720p MKVs?