i have just received my BlueAngel H10R with wifi N dongle.. after a few hours i found its

Advantages:
1)reasonable price -rm430 with wifi N dongle
2)simple to use (i am a low tech guy and managed to figure out how to use it on my own as the manual is in chinese)
3)comes with ppstream and worked fine
4)no heat problem even after hours of hd viewing
5)will convert dts to stereo for your tv


Disadvantages:
1)Fan noice is quite loud, can certainly hear it loud and clear during quiet scene. Couple this with a projector u will will certainly enjoy the 'woooo' fan noice from the projector n blue angel.

2)Video quality is not as good as wdtv.. it is more noticeable on grainy movies. The movie i repeatedly compared to wdtv is the chinese movie Hero. It just doesnt look as sharp as wdtv and seems to have more noice. The difference quite unoticeable on hd series.. the series i tried includes Heroes season 4 and CSI season 6.

3)PPstream is a pain the s to use . For example if u want to watch hong kong series, under hongkong series it only display 5 series perpage for u to choose. If u want the series not displayed on the page then u need to press next page and wait for it to load again. each page will take 7 to 10 seconds. I wanted to watch 'Borned Rich' and i flipped the pages for 15 min and it still wasnt displayed. Just imagine if your show is on page 150, u will need 150x10seconds/60=25 min of page flipping:)

I have not
1)tried it on my avr so i am not sure abt the audio quality
2)tried youtube
3)learned how to use BT to download materials so i cant use blue angel to download anything (i am rapidshare user)

Overall i think it is still a bang for buck product and have no regrets getting it.
I am certainly no expert so please feel free to join in to discuss or correct me if u think feel differently abt the product.

This post has been edited by mys_terious: Dec 18 2009, 12:01 PM

bought this for my papa n mama.. they wanna watch hd movies also.. so thought ppstream is a plus for them since they can watch free hk series.. and i am not sure if the the current cheap sigma chip players can down mix dts to stereo as my parents doesnt have a avr

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Added on December 18, 2009, 10:58 ambro sorry for my noobness.. what is pps 'SDK'

This post has been edited by mys_terious: Dec 18 2009, 10:58 AM

sory bro i compared the two coz i own them.. i cant compare POHD and Xtremer coz i have no reason to own so many media players ehehe..

i tried HD movies only on a 40 inch lcd .. especially film like movies (sory too noob to describe, for example ancient war movies).. i didnt try SD movies but hd series like csi which is not grainy looks ok .. what i meant is i am used to wdtv so when i watch with blue angel i notice there is a difference, thats all.. it doesnt mean realtek video quality is bad maybe i am just fussy..

I bought this player mainly bcoz my parents need this kind of player.. very hard for me to explain to them what is dts and y their tv got no sound.. i am also too lazy to check if cheap sigma players like wdtv can downmix dts to stereo now.. so just get this all in 1 and reasonable priced player...

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Added on December 18, 2009, 3:19 pmthought SDK is Setia Diraja Kedah (SDK) award by the sultan hheheh:)


This post has been edited by mys_terious: Dec 18 2009, 03:19 PM

same here .. i wont hesitate getting a realtek player if they improve their pps function.. and if i could add overseas english radio stations it would be so useful.. at the moment only few china stations.. i havent tried adding any stations yet...i tried installed teow chiew station and it worked fine hahha.. i know laptops and desktops can do the same think but this is much cheaper n very convinient.. will be convinient for our wives or parents

i am not sure y i couldnt play pps and youtube today.. it says something like 'media file not supported'.. it worked fine yesterday though.. pls take note that this might be my own fault and has nothing to do with the player.. like i said i am a low tech person.. dont even know how to use the network fucntion to stream files yet hehe

bro your ppstream can use or not...

sorry havent tried flac files..

Just to let every1 know that buffalo 500gb ministation lite sucks and DOES NOT work with blue angel H10R.. if u plug it into H10R then it will freeze the angel.. this buffalo crap comes with a 'virtual cdrom' that u cant remove.. i have no idea what this 'virtual cdrom' is for .. when u plug the hdd into H10R there will be a msg 'usb dvd detected!' then hang.. fxck u buffalo ... does any1 know how to tame this buffalo?

This post has been edited by mys_terious: Dec 26 2009, 10:33 AM

Buffalo ministation lite works on my
1)vista home laptop
2)wdtv

It doesnt work on my
1)vista ultimate desktop (hangs the pc)
2)xp laptop (hangs laptop or auto play scans through all my movies before it stops or the message something like 'dvd driver detected' if u press ok it hangs.. if u dont press ok then it doesnt work)

3)blueangel h10r detects buffalo as dvd and hangs


If i go to the hdd management there is a partition for 'virtual cdrom' and formated as 'cdfs' file system... i am trying to get rid of this partition... does your buffalo have this piece of buffalo shit vitual cdrom too?.. i have no idea what is the virtual cdrom for.. and cant get rid of it.. it doesnt offer me the choice to format it..arrgggg

if any1 is interested in this buffalo pls let me know.. still got receipt.. not even 1 week old..

nope.. just going to sell it.. i am not interested in this stuff and dont have time to do it too .. rugi abit sell it and just buy another hdd easier

i find the diff most easily noticed on old grainy movies... realtek makes it very grainy while sigma makes it sharper n less grainy.. my result might not be accurate.. my result is based on only 1 movie.. the chinese show 'hero'.. quite obvious .. switched between wd tv n blue angel h10 r many times.. but realtek's ability to play real files is very convinient for our wives who likes real series.. i am keeping my h10r

bro i got 1 spare h10r wifi N dongle bought from u.. i bought 2 units n my fren doesnt want the wifi dongle.. so spare 1 usb dongle.. if u run out of stock n ppl want it pls ask them to pm me ok

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Added on January 17, 2010, 4:15 pmmy unit kenot unplug the fan coz the blue led (on/off light) passed away after 2 days of purchase.. now i use my fan as an indicator of on off hhahaha

This post has been edited by mys_terious: Jan 17 2010, 04:15 PM