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Good but with a big question mark? DivX

Sony BDP-S480 3D Blu-ray Player (USB, HDMI, 1080p upscaling, WiFi ready) (Electronics)

Customer Review

Hello,

on the advantages and disadvantages of this device is quite a bit has been written here. I have a Panasonic BDP-60 used before this BD player for two years, which was absolutely awesome in the area BluRay and DVD, because he ate everything on the media that I have purposed in and had a super picture. Unfortunately, the Media Player is an imposition here. HDD's to USB are for example only supports up to 120 GB and FAT32. Whoever invents something must have been smoking something, even two years ago. The Internet options with Viera Cast were meager and ending the loading time for a BD you could sometimes even go make coffee, before it started. That's why I looked around for another device because the irritated slowly after the nearly two years. First, I wanted to add just a media player like WD TV Live, but now I did not want to make one device. After all the reviews here and many comparisons, I then decided to go only for the BDP-S380, I absolutely can not do anything with the whole 3D hype. For one thing, it makes IMHO the TV displays absolutely no sense, everything I've seen it flicker like hell and you get bleeding eyes and even I can not always perceive correctly by a slight congenital vision defects. And even though I'm 3D computer graphic artists and media designers;. O) a really good display on a beautiful display come on plastically enough I think and that is more important to me than such a bells and whistles. But I have the BDP-S480 shot much cheaper at the Warehouse Deals as the smaller brother. So I also 3D, which I will however not take advantage of the absence-capable display for the foreseeable future. I am also moved away from Panasonic anything because none of the models here rankommt by the descriptions and reviews on the sides of the two units at the price and Pansonic with his players is always good for a big surprise.

The expectation was not very high, because I was very spoiled by the old combination of Panasonic BD and plasma TV from the same house from her picture. Yesterday order delivered today, allegedly with traces according to Amazon warehouse, of which I have seen, however, nothing, except that the box was opened before and already two BD's have run it. (You can look in the device under "Grace Notes"), I do not know what (positive sense) the Amazon warehouse sits for a picky people; o). Kudos and highly recommended reinzuschauen also here times.

- Connecting and setting only took a cigarette length and everything went. Internet connection (with me on Power-LAN 200+ Netgear AV) immediately came and my Windows 7 Media Server was immediately available. Absolutely brilliant. : O)))))

- Inserted a Blu-Ray and I wanted to go to the coffee .... but was nich! The menu was so quick at hand, that I already had, I thought a normal DVD in it. Movie Start, Navigation in the Tools section and search went so fast. I had previously stayed elsewhere and that's great. Likewise, in the menu of the device it going pretty fast and I find the ajar to the PS3 operation actually quite succeeded. No comparison to the stale Lahma .... owned Panasonic menu and I think it's much faster hard. : O))

- Running noise have been discussed a lot here. All I can say compared to the Panasonic sounded as if he would die if he has read a BD is that right pleasant, especial if you look at the difference in size of the devices. I thought that would be louder. Also when playing, I can say no extreme noise, certainly not one that bothers when you look a movie. I think that here so many want to hear coughing fleas and directly related to the ear on the device. You have to imagine how quickly turns the BD and if the remaining is then minimally unbalanced, can not happen without the noise. I find it unacceptable and uncomfortable in any way. Somehow you can also overdo with criticism especially since the price of the device basically without Warehouse Deals is unbeatable and so delicate as it would therefore comes I expect a louder Geräsuch. : O))

- Picture quality and sound: So as I said, I'm been very spoiled and I can because when BD's now find no significant difference, however, come to a trial leaked from my AVI's much cleaner before than before and the DVD upscaling is a for my taste eating better. However, I am sitting just off 2,50 94er of my screen, so I only very low perceive a difference between BD and DVD with good image processing in the operating mode. So what do you see only when you just sit one meter in front of the telly. Sound through my Onkyo receiver and Wharfedale speakers is as usual, powerful and clean. However, in music reproduction that is playing MP3's come directly through the receiver (also DLNA compatible) much better and was also the Panasonic better. Music CD's I have not tested, so I can not yet say. I play my pure audio CD's anyway from only on my old Denon player. Because until now neither my old Pioneer DVD nor the Panasonic BDP hard to get 60. On the lichen will turn when you play the ability SA-CD's with throws in the pot. However, that is as an exotic format that one hardly gets to see in the wild. Tie. ; O)

- But now it comes and I have almost a deja vu. Why can not everything in the world of Sony no DivX and Xvid encoded AVI's just play? What is this? The whole world can just DivX Sony makes again an exception. I am reminded of the days when Sony would not play home-burned CD's, although any other player that had a standard plan. Now my DivX collection of TV recordings is not so great, I'm starting only just at times, because I want to bypass DVD and BD burning, but I personally feel stupid and is almost a KO, especially if you are at some video on demand portals or legal movie downloads only gets Divx'e. : O (

- The promise of other playable formats I can not say much, only this much: He plays my HD TV recordings (TS stream) from my Comag SL100HD from (via network), but only if they are carried once before the TSDoctor of Cypheros hunts. But that should be done in the case for further processing in each direction before, since the streams almost always somewhere have an error which brings many a device or program out of step or it can not even micht play. Thus, the DivX problem would almost ausgegelichen for me again. : O)

- Housing: Hmmmm .... Well. Not bad but appear cheap. If the Pansonic ahead, alone is when he acts in lifts much more stable than this little guy. The operator heads are not very reassuring, but we do not want to complain. For what has the device in the price range otherwise it I can live with. The remote control is small and handy but can not do much more than the BD player and possibly operate a TV. My Panasonic TV so I get no sound. But for that I have the FB from Onkyo AV Receiver which already has almost all the equipment with me on it.

- Media: So far, he has read all the self-creating my media (DVD-R, DVD + R, BD-R, etc., etc.) without a murmur. My ancient external NTFS formatted 500GB HDD Trek gates that I use to record the SAT receiver, he has not identified to mosquitoes. Then should also make other no problem. We will see.
Regarding the playback of Internet offers me the Gewschwindigkeit and the quality of the videos quite surprised. The same things on the PC on a 27 "looked at the monitor on the other hand look awful from. Here I think is a very good imaging at work, which can be adjusted in the options also to his liking. The offer" receivable "pages is also very extensive including some geührenpslichtiger deals such as LOVEFiLM, but what I'm going to do to me certain times;. o)

On the whole, for the price a worthy successor to the Panasonic in the range image rendering and especially speed. But I hope that come in with new firmware a few improvements. As an introduction device securely thoroughly recommended. Who wants to be with an independent video formats should rather set a pure media player, because that a full replacement, as some write here, the BDP-S480 is in my opinion not. It is true that much but who knows what he can not, even though it should. We will see. But for me it is enough and I will certainly have a lot of fun with the box even without 3D.

Supplement for less than a week:

Presumably, the Sony has a slight problem when reading external NTFS USB media (as in FAZ32 I do not know, since I no longer use) or is intentional. He can only see the maximum 2 files folder levels below the root directory. Do you have a file structure on the third folder, there is the message "No playable files found." What does that is beyond me, especially since it's file structure over the network on the DLNA server is absolutely not care. Annoying when you can throw his whole order, which you've built previously on the pile and the Übersichlichtkeit it is not particularly useful. But before you even get it and at first asks what's wrong with the files because they work goes over the net quite a time. O (

What the problem addressed here, that he I have not play MKV H264 HD_Dateien over the network can not understand. It comes with Windows 7 Media Server and the PS3 Media Server for the Playstation. This is in a position for the PS3 and for the Sony players is not digestible files on-the-fly to encode before they are sent to the device. The prerequisite is a potent PC, MAC or Linux computer. With my AMD Athlon II Quad Core x64 it works at least for SD Filmaterial. Since HD material over the network in between has miss a few burps, I play the eh only directly from the connected disk.

Otherwise, I can only say again that there is no adequate substitute for a pure media player or a PC. If you know what he needs, it is a good alternative. However, much of the spirit of research of needs seems to be and for the group "I-can-only-turning-and-Play", it is when a lot of other things as a BD, DVD or CD to be played only limited use.

Supplement for less than a month:

I now have connected an older NTFS formatted 1TByte-HHD and a majority of all my recent TV recordings draufgepackt. My DVD closet will thank me now. Access to the disk is done without problems. However, if you have draufgespielt new things appear in a folder some movie files before two to several times. Also, the player writes an ominous folder "Buda" on the board, where, however, nothing in it. When you restart, everything is with the data back on track. Because of this ominous "Buda" he attacks, entegen the instructions on the disk writing as to the use and could as a memory of what he does. What then surprised me enormously that I always get a message in the Special Edition Blu-ray of Avatar at the beginning that he is unable to load additional content, because no sufficient internal memory available. Häää? But the Grace Notes, together with cover image from the internet looking at each disk. I have not figured out yet how to delete the, again to space (to which even now need to consume) admit freely again. What this additional content should be at Avatar now, I can not say because the BluRay works perfectly otherwise.

The following formats I have both server and can play locally successfully on board (in brackets are the codecs in the video container):

* .ts (H264, MPEG4, MPEG2, everything from Comag SL100 HD for editing in TSDoctor), * .mkv (H.264, VC-1), * .vob (mpeg2), * .avi (XviD), * .mpeg, * .mp3, * .mp4 (h264). Another oddity is that existing subtitle tracks in .mkv *, * .vob, * .mpeg or not but appear be declared available. You can see that on the information when the "Display" button during playback you press the small icons at the top left of the screen. For example, the same * .vob file will only work on a burned DVD structure. Sound formats such as DTS, AC3, MP3, and DTS-HD, and multiple audio tracks are played in the pure file playback and can be selected via FB. However, he has a problem with AC3 TruHD. He will not play, even though when the movie file on a entspechenden eg DVD / BluRay is, it comes. What I have noticed, however, which can also be imagination, is that occurs when playing the movie files from and to a very slight tremor during camera movement. I may be wrong but strangely movie files from disk are always displayed in 1080p 60fps (info window on display at FB). Either this is a mistake in the interpretation of one data (I've only 25fps or 50fps) or he expects around there what what would explain this tremor.
I no longer get to all the but on 5 stars.

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