@aki
I speak for myself here, but I hardly play any content straight from DVD/CD unless in my brianmobil, which I'm also hoping to upgrade to a stereo with USB slot and bluetooth.

IMO Discs as a storage to media especially video is on its death bed, just like the disc killed the tape, flash memory will kill the disc. With the internet becoming more accessible and faster, things will have to change, as they did when the industry ignored napster, though its now folded.

DVD Players now also come with a USB slot, this allows you to play content straight from a flash disk or a step further format a portable HDD in FAT32 and voila.

You can now purchase a movie online, its no longer necessary/a must to buy a disc and or physical media.

If you are a downloader, the content might never get to a Disc unless you're selling (my opinion of piracy to be discussed separately). Only one person need buy the disc be it blueray, dvd or cd, rip and share it...the industry loses.
Lets be honest here there is a larger market out there watching pirated DVDs than people who buy the genuine article.

Out of curiosity, why did the big manufacturers yield to the chinese and put a USB slot there and allow it to play certain audio, video and photos? There must be something I am missing.

I reiterate, I speak only for myself....corrections welcome.



On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:54 AM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
@Brian, lets push this thread further a bit..sidelined from the original thread, hope @TheMburu will not mind :-)
 
Case not closed, how would you play a CD/DVD on this unit without converting them to a file format thus wasting even more time on encoding/decoding?  This unit is more like a file server.
 
Maybe I'm missing the point here and corrections are welcome.
 
Rgds.

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Brian L <lusiola@gmail.com> wrote:
Some time early this year Wash enlightened us with this mail

<quote mail>

Hello Skunks,

Anyone interested in Full HD Home Theatre Players?


The chipset for these devices is Realtek.

You choose or buy your own size of HDD as they come without.

Warranty period - 1 year.
The specs are available at http://goo.gl/mFWtF

Going price is $120. But there is room for negotiation:-)

</quote mail>

Case closed.
You can fit your 2TB disk in there with all the .mkv files can download and knock yourself out with HD video and 5.1 audio, download torrents straight from it and all at an affordable price "though the price is not inclusive of the hard disk"




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