70 BDs, BD player, and this? I should've join you when you asked me to rob the bank.

Theatrical films, even those shot digitally, are shot at 24fps. Digital movies that are not meant for cinemas, like concerts/TV series, mostly shot at 60fps.

All MKV that I have only normal DTS (1.5mbps max) and Dolby Digital only. So that's fine.

I have yet to come across any video file with HD audio tracks.

I was talking about HD audio in MKV files, I can't seem to find any. If you remux and re-encode the audio tracks to DTS-HD MA/Dolby TrueHD, it's still not lossless to the original BD, only lossless to the MKV.

Direct rip from BD, that's another story.

Guys, discussing MKV files or any type of media in general is fine. But is it ok to mention about downloading certain copyrighted titles? And giving links is even more inapropriate. Can discuss this privately via PM.

The SRT subtitles must have the same name as the movie, that's all.

Always the best post!

Yup, this can never replace the TViX. But it's good enough for it's price. Me also thought of buying, but had to pass after I read the specs.

It seems like this WD can't decode some audio formats internally (presumably DTS & Dolby), you'll need to have an AV receiver to do the decoding. So those connecting directly to the TV might not get the audio.

If I have to do remux/demux then I might just as well use my PS3. I can quickly remux an MKV file and play it straight on the PS3.

DVD native resolution is 480p. I think his TV screen/upscaling is 1080p which don't have anything to do with the WD player, so of course it will play flawlessly.

He need to test it on a real 1080p native video to get the WD's real performance result.

1080p refers to vertical pixel count of 1.78:1 aspect ratio (16x9, same as your widescreen TV).

Because most movies were shot at wider screen with 2.35:1 aspect ratio, the vertical resolution will be smaller. Some movies were shot at 1.85:1 will be stretched to 1.78:1 (negligible effect to the picture) during rip process, so the vertical resolution will be 1080p.

The best way to know the actual resolution is to look at horizontal size. If it's 1920 then it's 1080p, regardless of the vertical size. Same with 720p which will always have 1280 pixels horizontally. So if the video size is 1920x800, it is 1080p at 2.35:1 aspect ratio.

Use SubtitleWorkshop to edit your subtitles. Download here:

SubtitleWorkshop 2.51

SubtitleWorkshop 4.00 Beta 4

This is a freeware, feel free to distribute.

Receiver only:

Yamaha RX-V663 for around RM1.9k.
Onkyo TX-SR606 for less than RM3k.

Or for HTiBs, the Sony HT-SF2300 for RM1999, and few others, don't know much about the models, maybe can refer tot he HTiB thread.

Ooops, yeah, you're right. I was misleaded when he mentioned HDMI. Any receiver with optical input and legacy DTS decoding will do.

You'll only need an HDMI receiver if there's a need to decode HD audio.

Just come to KL this weekend and get one from the PC Fair bro. It's dirt cheap for you, you won't notice any changes in your wallet.

A hell lot of money to me too. But not to elites lah.

Alamak, kena table.

That's correct. It can also play AVI-HD and WMV-HD directly. For MKVs can stream using Tversity. In fact, with wired/wireless connection with PS3 is one advantage over the WDTV. If you don't wanna stream, can always remux the MKV.

Another reason for me to not sell my PS3.

Yeah, everyone should take this into consideration before buying. If you own an AV receiver or plan to buy one, you're good to go. If not, you won't hear the audio for those MKVs with DTS (or Dolby Digital too?) when connect the audio directly to the TV. Looks like it doesn't have internal decoding for those audio codec.

If we have to go all this conversion/remux process, for PS3 owners should just settle with their PS3 instead.