Please do not mislead the public by simply giving comments that HDX BD1 cannot HD Audio passthru.

Some of the BDISO with PIP functions, Sigma itself cannot do the HD passthru properly. But if you choose the 'Intelligent Play' mode where you disable the BD Java functions, HD audio passthru is running perfectly.

It is not toggle the Audio button, but choose a different play mode. HDX thread already explain this matter. Pls read around before giving statement.

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Added on March 24, 2010, 11:40 amNgto, I still remember exactly wht POHD promise on HD Audio passthru......

This post has been edited by hdwarexpert: Mar 24 2010, 11:40 AM

hi all, just wondering how good is hornettek phantom? any user can give brief comment? is it come with v3 SDK?

its' similar to Patriot...i got it - quite good actually but it has some issues reading a few MPEG4 files ...other than that it's pretty awesome...but for the price, there's probably a lot more better and cheaper options here...like the HDPro etc

try finding reviews on Patriot Media Player over the net -most probably from US customers...most of them are pretty happy with it...

my take - if you wanna buy it, bring your portable HDD with some of your fav files and try them on the Phantom before you buy it...

the networking is quite good as well...

thks for replying, what MPEG4 is that? HDPro a lot better? i suppose other m/c should have similar performance as they are using the same chipset?

oh hell no... not the same outcome i got after testing though.
both HDX-BD1 and WDTVlive handle TrueHD very well. BD1 outputs (bitstream) DTSMA well too and WDTVlive would downmix it to DTS. both are using the same chipset you mentioned. Even the old HDX1000 (older sigma chipset) bitstreams both HD audio format very well. My amp lights up both HDaudio all the time. If you have tested BD1 and found it can't bitstream HD audio, do post your screenshot and mediainfo here so that we can help verify (well, sometimes, when the filename displays HDaudio it doesn't mean the file contains HDaudio stream) yeah.

This post has been edited by wuanzi: Mar 24 2010, 11:48 PM

Totally agree with you bro!!!

I suppose they should have the media files with HD Audio, but their statement/opinion is very bias towards some personal interest.

So far owners of BD1 is very happy with the products, while all of them are anticipating the new GUI which will rock the rest of the media player makers.

HDPro probably could give you more for the same value spent...heard it's good..some reviews around this thread...i might get this as my 2nd unit someday...

but not sure if HDPro can read everything...coz some downloaded files are just filled with unsupported codecs that better to be read by a PC...media players are kinda limited in terms of compatibilty with certain codecs etc, although constant firmware upgrade might help resolve this

How does the HDPro compares to the Eaget X6 ? Is it the same?

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to all guru , i found that the PQ of HD MKV playback with media player are kind of grainy as compared to PC , how to reduce that? is sigma got the same grainy PQ ? is it due to the chipset ? LCD ? cable??? video source? THX

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Added on April 1, 2010, 8:13 pmand what about BD ISO? is the PQ grainy ?

This post has been edited by Heihachi777: Apr 1 2010, 08:13 PM

Picture sharp, so grain also can see sharp lah

but that seems to be overkilled , maybe need to enable noise reduction in tv
so is all 1073 player have the same PQ ? or some come with noise filtration feature?

Even stand alone blu-ray player got picture noise , depending on movie.

You have to decide how much sharpening and how much noise reduction you want (picture softer). But in the case of media player like POHD, normally don't have noise reduction adjustment feature, so have to use the TV adjustments.

But I hear that Sigma players got less picture noise.

maybe i m sitting too close to my tv , need to move backward a bit

How close is close. If 42" TV better sit at least 8'

my studyroom is small , the distance between me n tv is about 4'

this is how far you should sit:
http://www.soundandvisionmag.com/installat...ewing-distances

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