Hi Yangxi,

Can you help me decide which one to choose:

1) HD Pro+
2) HD Pro Mini
3) S9

I intend to use external HDD for the movies. All these 3 models can support external HDD without problem / lag?

HDPro HDMI does not support real DTS right? I'm using a projector (no LCD TV..) with HDMI connected to a AVR. So I usually connect my player to  AVR using HDMI. If I need to connect separate coaxial from HDPro to AVR for the DTS audio, that means I cannot use AVR for video output to my projector?

What are the things that S9 and Mini are better than HDPro+?

Any other brothers can advise too?

hdpro mini got optical out only, how come no coaxial audio out?

the mini's hdd bay is for 2.5" hdd ?

I've upgraded firmware to Jun10 FW as well as the extension packages.

One problem: when BT and Samba turned on, HDPro will hang up while playing movies even though movie is from HDD1. Noticed that network was very busy! Turned off BT and Samba, and everything is working fine.

BTW, I did not have any torrents running from HDPro. So, not very sure what was happening in the background.

Question: Can I turn on Samba without turning on BT?

wat do u mean by after flash, please restore default ?
why must we restore default ?

DivX has only one GMC "warp point" specified. This enables easier hardware implementation, but limits the global transform to panning operation only. Since panning can be described using blocks, this implementation rarely improves video quality.

Xvid allows up to 3 warp points, and as a result, has less hardware support. The DivX player, however, does support 3-warp-point GMC, and thus will play GMC Xvid-encoded streams.

I have few movies(mp4) with AAC that play ok but no sound. Connected through optical out to AVR. Yangxi, any idea on this.

I have Celine Dion concert with dual audio of TrueHD and stereo. The player can output stereo but no TrueHD. Unknown format shown.

YES, if the new firmware can support external BDROM would be great.

dunno how many times i've repeatedly answering the same question. and yet no firmware update has fixed this.

if you're using spdif raw digital audio out, there is no sound for aac or mp3 audio unless change you to analog audio.
the player itself does support aac and mp3 & can decode them, thus plays back fine on analog out. but, when you use raw digital output, the aac audio (as an example) is not decoded internally in the player. this compressed audio is sent directly out to your avr, and let your avr to do the decoding. if your avr cannot decode aac audio, you won't be able to hear any sound from it. the same goes to mkv/mp4 movies with aac audio.

if you want the aac in the video to be heard without changing the player's setting to analog audio, re-encode your movies that have AAC audio to Dolby Digital. i use popcorn mkv audio converter for this job. for 5.1 aac audio, i'll re-encode them to at least 384 kbps dd5.1. if your aac is stereo, it'll be re-encode to 192kbps dd2.0.

previous 1073dd cannot play dolby trueHD audio.

i've downloaded HD 1080 video from youtube in AVI format. It can't seems to play using HD PRO and it stated file format not supported. Any idea why?

ermm, i actually use a software to download it to AVI file. MP4 is playing fine, but i wanna know why it can't play AVI when its stated supported in the spec.