I tested the Sony Media Player on a new flat-screen TV with an HDMI connector on the wireless network and to an ancient tube TV with a "Component Video Out to Scart" cable. Both types of connection worked without problems, after I had found me in an electronics market locally the appropriate cables. These are not supplied, but what I personally find not so bad, on the contrary: In the electrical appliances nowadays far too many cables are included that are not needed and then lying in a box or thrown away. One should really start to save resources and the cable Your arrangements (eg order separately) that you need.
The integration into the wireless network worked without any problems. Irritated me first that the device an unprotected guest access mattered to me, in which I could log in without a password. The compound was shown come about as properly, which caused me some headaches, because an unprotected guest access should have it with me now not really give. But then after that did not work out the Internet connection, but this was indicated by the error message, the server is not currently accessible. That can now be every now and so I waited until the next morning in the hope that is the server then back into operation. I got back the next day, the message about the missing server connection. From the computer, I know it, that you get some stupid error message that has nothing to do with the main issue, and so I tried the internet connectivity via the protected access to the wireless network with a password and everything around it, and lo and behold: Network Integration worked instantly without any problems.
The main menu of the Media Player is very clearly structured; you can orient themselves easily, without having to work through the whole manual. There is a whole list of Internet TV providers, you can select via remote control, many of them with costs. For these services you have to - as well as the Sony network - to register so you will not slip out accidentally in premium offerings and afterwards gets presented an invoice. Also, you can even enter a URL from where you want to look at videos, it is to me, however, did not succeed, the internet simply googling to me to display a movie.
The problem is that although there is a menu function to enter URLs and other texts in defined forms, but that the software keyboard can not be called up, for example, to enter your own text into the Google search engine window. I wanted to look at me the trailer of Thor, I want googled it and came because of the lack of software keyboard no longer within the Google window. I then later found in one of the listed TV provider the Thor trailer and there I could select it using the keyboard. Whether this problem can be off by connecting a suitable mobile phones, which can be set up as a remote control for Media Player, unfortunately I do not know because I do not have such a mobile phone and therefore it could not try.
Then it was down to business: over the USB port, I wanted to watch a movie. In the list of compatible formats listed .avi, since so it should be no problem. So I thought, at least. Unfortunately, the Sony Media Player was not able to play my .avi movies online TV recorder; he always brought me instead of an image only an error message. It is probably so that the .avi and .mpeg formats called containers in which but incompatible ingredients may be included quite. So it seems that the Sony officially .avi files can play, but it is not with DivX component. I was initially very disappointed, because that is the main format with which I look at movies. The player would thus have been of no use to me, I would have found a solution to the problem. In the manual you will find this no more.
Fortunately, there are but a very simple solution and looks like this:
Once you have obtained the Internet the free program HandBrake (there's for Windows, Mac and Linux). So you can call up any file (also Video TS folder) and convert them to a format that the Sony media player can play. In this case, one selects as output file format MP4 and as Video Codec "H.264 (x264)". It may sound complicated everything, but I had no previous knowledge about video and the solution is to me still like practically at his feet.
The MP4 file calculate take a few minutes - depending on how long the movie is and how fast the computer. (In comparison: to produce movie DVDs to play on the DVD player took several hours).
The completed MP4 file pulls you on the USB stick and can view it on the media player to the TV set. And the quality is fantastic even on the large flat-screen TV, especially if you download HQ data from Online TV Recorder.
As mentioned also Video TS folders can be so "treat" that you get a playable movie. In HandBrake, there is the option to select the audio track for the audio output. You have to also make, because you get otherwise produced may the film with English soundtrack. That happened to me the first time, but after that I selected the German soundtrack and had a German movie that I could look at me. The whole lasted approximately 20 minutes and the result was perfect.
I am totally thrilled by the Sony Media Player. To now look at the movies on a USB flash drive saves me a lot of hours of work and untold blank DVDs. I have no comparison to other media players and therefore can not say whether that really so much more compatible. Anyway, I'm with the ability to convert incompatible formats quickly and without cost to the desired format, more than satisfied. Therefore, I can really recommend the Sony Media Player.
