RM229 seems like a nice price, but no RMVB or FLAC

HDMI™ (High Definition Multimedia Interface)
1080p Upscaling Video Output through HDMI™ Connection
USB drive for access to movies, photos and music
BRAVIA™ Sync
PhotoTV HD
Compact size
Playback of JPEG, MP3, AAC, WMA, LPCM, MPEG-1,2,4, VOB, VRO
DivX® Playback
Quick Set-up

This post has been edited by SiriuslyCold: Nov 20 2009, 07:42 AM

not support those popular HD sources such as mkv, m2ts, & bd.iso?

no wonder their sales are going downhill..

No MKV support...

I think big companies can't even acknowledge the existence of formats like MKV... esp Sony since they themselves own a movie studio

er.. not logical cos samsung TV can play MKV


also supported formats for this player above like mp3, VOB are rips from cd and DVD...

So AR188, what is worse than half-baked?

Sheesh...why do I get a nagging feel that Sony's Playstation became popular many moons ago cos of Jacksparrow games.
If no MKV why bother, or is it just for US and EU market?
At least now we know why Sony's people who design the Walkman lost out to iPod.

BTW it is about £60.00 Incl VAT

This post has been edited by DarkNite: Nov 20 2009, 12:28 PM

when PS3 firmware update to support divx 7 is release we can play mkv directly on PS3, since divx 7 is using mkv format, now if they will add ntfs support, it think the hardware sale here will went through the roof

there is even plan to release a 3D update for all PS3, that will be awesome if you have 3D tv.

I'll believe it when I see it.

haha.. too many feature update promise nowadays.. but failed to deliver..

it all depend on the business decision, the hardware itself have no problem to provide this feature, just that management may have different idea, disappointed with the ps3 latest update only get a lame facebook link feature and different photo gallery.

you mean if it supports DIVX7 means it knows what is .mkv extension and we can start playing them?

cos even now, we can already play the advance video codecs in the MKV like H264.. it just don't recognize mkv.. so have to remux to mp4.

anyway the real issue is the FAT32 limitation, they can make divx1000 also cannot play those larger 8GB files..

This post has been edited by ar188: Nov 20 2009, 04:03 PM

FAT32 limitation is 4GB or 8GB, I very confused liao.

I never said FAT was 8GB limitation, its 4GB la..

I was trying to indicate you still can't play those 8GB 1080p movies unless chop/split files (as compared to those smaller 720p, also need to chop but not much)

And someone was chopping 40++GB M2TS files to watch on PS3.

Ooo...like that ah, thanks for the clarification. My england vely bad.

divx7 officially support mkv container, so if ps3 upgrade their codec to divx 7, mkv will play without need to remux, and also the NTFS support is the other issue with using external hard disk connecting to ps3. ntfs support is tricky because NTFS is own by micro$oft, so there is licensing fee that need to be pay, or MS can just refuse to see license to sony.

http://www.divx.com/en/products/software/windows/divx

This post has been edited by robertngo: Nov 20 2009, 04:41 PM

Another way is to use media server. I always copy my 8GB files to my PS3's harddisk this way. The PS3"s harddisk is not FAT32, only the external USB drives connected to it must be FAT32, hence the 4GB limitation.

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Added on November 20, 2009, 4:37 pmDiVX is a codec. It can be in MKV or AVI container. The problems with PS3 is that it can't read the MKV header, so regardless of what codec inside, PS3 can't play it. Same reason why PS3 can't play the H264 codec in MKV, but will play it fine when the H264 inside remuxed to MP4 container/header.

This post has been edited by aiman04: Nov 20 2009, 04:37 PM

mistake in my post, yes it is a container.