Edifier S530D come with optical & coaxial input, but cant decode DD and DTS...

Altec Lansing also got those THX speaker, but again more than RM1k....

[quote=andyz,Jan 14 2009, 08:13 PM]
First off before I start I am sorry I cannot compare picture quality of the wd with other machines. I didn’t realize the wd did not have component connections when I went to set it up at a friends place. But I did test on normal video out.

Ok now lets begin the first thing that strike me about this wd machine is how god damn small it is. So small that is so cute.
Updated the machine with the latest firmware using the usb key. Fast detect of the usb key and installation was straight forward lasting less than 5 minutes.

Went through the menu systems.. quick access using the tiny remote.

Ok I brought along my trusty dvico 6500a as the hard drive machine.. Plug it in to the usb port of the wd machine.. WD took like 10minutes to detect it , could it be because of the one terabyte worth of media files in my dvico?? Will test it on a passport drive when I get it later for him.

After detection went through the menu system again to look for files to play. OK this is what I don’t like of the wd machine.. the files selection is totally fugly . irritating by itself. If your movies folder have more than 300 files , god speed with you to find the files u want to watch.. don’t know what wd was thinking when designing this. U have a maximum of 12 huge icons per page(I guess u can put pictures for each files, but I don’t know how, and if u have 1000 files it will be crazy just to put a photo for each files) scrolling each icon will show u the name of the file.. u want more just keep on scrolling up or down .. and a new page will appear.. trust me its very irritating..but lukily its fast not like the hdx1000 which has a delay (but hdx1000 files system show names which is nice)

I don’t know whether its me (didn’t read manual) or just wd plain stupidity. The greatest peeve I have on this machine is the search function. Its non existence, WTF man … I click the search button on the remote to find my favourite scenes (like battlestar galactic season 3 episode exodus part 2, the scene where galactica jump into the skies above) and the bloody thing doesn’t do anything. Just a bloody stop sign appears. Don’t tell me I need to fast forward 16x to find a scene thats 1 hour ahead. Could it be I need to use a wd external drive??

Picture quality test from normal video out. I will try to do PQ on hdmi next time, but for now this little wd machine has quite outstanding PQ. I couldn’t test "v for vendetta" as the wd machine cannot play any 1080p vc1 files. But the rest of the 1080p play with without a hitch so far. Again because of the stupid wd search function not working I cannot test more into the film or critical intense scenes for stuttering. Only the start of each movie. Only one tp files had problem playing.

(will try to update with more info the next time)

So to sum it up WD hdtv is highly recommended machine for the price range. Of course u get what u paid for, like missing convenience and missing extra functions like the big boys. But i am sure most people can live without those.

Like
Small casing
Cheap cheap cheap
PQ up to par with the big boys (normal video out review)

Dislike
File menu listing
No dts downmix
No search function
No bookmark



U can go into the setting page to change it to listing menu to list the fiename instead of big folder, so u can browse ur file faster.
Yup, 1TB take at least 5min to get detected, but i not sure whether is everythime need to take so long or not....
for fast forward, when fast forwarding, press NEXT, it will jump by 10min interval.

which shop u bought from LY for RM380??

cool !!

PS3mediaserver cant stream MKV file smoothly lah, try one and it keep shuttering. Unless u got other way to do it?

forget about tversity, ps3mediaserver is the best and easiest right now.

cycom selling WDTV RM395 with HDMI cable bundle

Wah...this is even cheaper!!

no need, dl DTS also ok, just use popcorn audio converter lah, very easy and fast.

i will get one WD HDTV this friday. Any where cheaper than All IT at RM369?

yeah..the previous unit is my bro one, helping him to buy, was with me for few wks before sending it to swak. though waiting for new PS3 fimrware to support MKV but..em...will mkv support coming to PS3??

This post has been edited by JayC75: Apr 2 2009, 10:07 AM

yeah..even PS3 can support mkv, it's a hassle to copy inside PS3 HD consider it formated in FAT32.

Now looking for a cheap HDMI switch. my samsung LCD only have 2 HDMI port, not enough.

ok lah..ur name get eraseeee....

This post has been edited by JayC75: Apr 2 2009, 10:09 AM

i wan like 2 or 3 HDMI in, 1 out. As i got sony camera dock w/HDMI, DVD upscale player, PS3 and later WD HDTV.

rx330 bought WD HDTV? though he already own Dvico

this WD HDTV is really a solid piece of gadget for the price we pay. Plan to get one putting in my masterbed room once i upgrade my room TV to 32" LCD TV, so no need to shift up and down...cudos to WD for bringing this to the market.

i also think of buying it during PC fair, but lazy to drive down, sure hard to get parking and the parking/petrol/hassle will not worth the extra $$ i save. i don think will hv much offer seeing all passed PC Fair, the most may be free HDMI cable which i don need at this moment..only bonus is can see some nice booth gal during PC fair

r u sure it doesnt support ext sub?? doesnt make sense.

i don think WD will strip out ext sub support, it just doesnt make sense as this feqtures is requested by many pp.

any users who upgraded latest FW care to share?

Let's us know ok

bought my WD HDTV from All IT just now, RM369, cheapest u can find in LY. Compu-Zone is tell me that the price will increase soon, so guy if u wanna get one, get it now.

no no..i bet ur previous movies come with embeded sub, for separate sub file, even old FW u need to press option to access the sub. Now new FW even list the language, cool!!

Go get from All IT, RM369 nia~!

Told u all PC Fair NVR be cheap, just trying to scope the money from the crowd..hahah