i bought this yesterday from digitalmall, RM 480 + RM 250 for a 1tb WD HDD

bought it from aoneplus

the SA there, his name is aven, was really, really good. he knew ALL his stuff - sounded like he posts on lowyat forums too haha.

it was a toss up between this or WD TV Live - the way i see it, the 2 main cons for playon!HD: 1. being perhaps slightly lower PQ and 2. the downmix of TrueHD sound (from what i gather) doesn't really affect me at all seeing im just using a 42 inch lcd and normal tv + hifi speakers.

he convinced me i wouldnt be able to tell the difference

on the plus side, i get to put in an internal HDD (which i really wanted), play RVMB and also the timeseek feature.

using this was a breeze, spent alot of time messing around with all the features, and i like how its possible to adjust subtitle size and position. i didnt think this was important but actually its pretty cool

streaming from my CPU by LAN network was also no problem, PQ was great!

one question though to all the experienced users out there - everytime i watch something, am i supposed to choose the display setting to match it? for example if normal .avi series, should i choose NTSC? and then 720 for 720 movies, 1080 for 1080 movies, etc. or does it not make a difference, and i should just use my lcd remote to adjust the size to fit properly?

thanks!

hi bro boxbuilder, i don't mean my lcd settings. i mean the top left button (or one of those very close to the top left) on the POHD remote. the one that switches between NTSC, 480, PAL, 720, 1080 etc.

do i change this to accomodate whatever it is im watching?

also, can i ask, what's the difference between 50hz and 60hz (for 720 and 1080i and 1080p)

oh, and also whats the difference between 1080i and 1080p sorry real newb

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Added on May 10, 2010, 2:51 amfrom my experiences so far, using my lcd settings, if i watch at "native" it's fine if i changed the POHD settings to match, otherwise i choose "wide", and i have to zoom to 0.9 (90%) otherwise the sides get clipped a tiny bit.

This post has been edited by dizfire: May 10 2010, 02:51 AM