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
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Playback of JPEG, MP3, AAC, WMA, LPCM, MPEG-1,2,4, VOB, VRO
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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.

thanks for the clarification..

anyway I tot you remux king? retired from all those remuxing already ar?

wont it be too much hassle to copy the huge video file to ps3 everytime?

now this is half baked !! ..

Remux king? I passed all the duties to my friend already. Now he's the one downloading, remuxing, etc. He even owns my RS account now. Sometimes I take a peek at his drives and steal 1 or 2 movies.

I'm just focused to BDs now, got no time anymore.

bos, can you clarify, PS3 HDD is not FAT32 so no 4GB limitation, so can I remove the HDD and copy a 12GB video file like remux mp4 into this internal HDD via sata etc.. and put it back into the PS3? viola there is your 12GB 1080p mp4 movie inside the PS3.... can work ar liddis?

This post has been edited by ar188: Nov 20 2009, 04:54 PM

Just doing that sometimes only, don't like to split movies. Maybe that's just me being weird.

The transfer only takes a few minutes though.

if you got network connection why dont just use ps3 media server?

Tried that long time ago, your computer OS won't recognize it. Apparently PS3 uses it's own propriety file system format, it's not NTFS.

But disk management software like Partition Magic, etc can recognize it as a harddisk drive, just can't see or access the contents. So you can reformat it to FAT32 or NTFS to use it as normal harddisk. I did that to the original PS3 harddisk when I upgraded the PS3 to 160GB.

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Added on November 20, 2009, 5:10 pmI wanna keep the movie in my PS3, don't wanna turn on my PC every time I wanna watch. This usually movies I really love but not yet available on BD, or the existing BD release locked to other regions so I can't buy it. Once I have an 8GB Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back, ripped from HD-broadcast in my PS3. It looked quite good in HD. Again, I'm a geek in a weird way.

Of course, all this talk is because I don't have a dedicated media player.

This post has been edited by aiman04: Nov 20 2009, 05:10 PM

just buy la.. can unlock region mah and keep as BD-iso..

while the world is going h264, sony releases this divx media player. it deserves a failure of the year award.

Cheap price...also cheap in features...

Cheap thing no good, good thing no cheap?

Does this Sony USB Media Player able to play downloaded movie from internet... example if i dload some TV series in AVI format around 350MB, if Movie around 700MB, can it be play?

this player has NO lan /wifi..how to dl movies??

your reply is irrelevant. WDTV had no lan either, until WDTV Live. None of the low end RMVB players have internet connection, yet they play downloaded RMVBs fine.

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back to the Sony - since they mention Divx, AVI format should be ok.

But there is no mention of support for RMVB and MKV. If you download movies/TV series in either of these formats then you're out of luck.

This post has been edited by SiriuslyCold: Dec 3 2009, 09:20 AM

sorry...i thought he meant using this player itself to dl movies..hehe

Sorry miss 1 part of explanation... the dloaded AVI file i put in thumb drive...
can it be play?

Example of TV Series..
Heroes, Smallville, CSI, - which is around 350MB

Coz at home i have Sony Bravia KLV-40S550A which has a USB port and it says can play movie...
but it cannot, maybe due to compression differences..

This post has been edited by Vmaker: Dec 3 2009, 11:38 AM