Payment made. Hope to get my unit b4 CNY Holiday ![Grin ;D](https://bolehvpn.net/forum/Smileys/default/grin.gif)
Managed to spend some time experimenting with the unit during the CNY hols and I thought I share some of my experiences:=
A very handy and highly protable HD media player which I find most useful when you have a few TV sets scattered around the house.!! I have even done some demo with the unit at my friends house and it has not fail to impress. I am using a Buffalo 320Gb ext drive with lots of good HD stuff and music. As previously mentioned it played almost every media format except digital audio in mkv files. The handling of jpeg files I find is even better than by the TVIX unit which I also own. Performance of the WDTV is noticeably better after the FW upgrade, which is a simple affair. PitBoss pointed out a way to convert DTS encoded files by using the AudioConverter which works well but it took 3-4 hours to convert a 11Gb file. Benefit of this process is, we end up with a file encoded with both audio tracks (if we chose to keep the original DTS track). See Pit Boss post below.
Posted by: Pit Boss
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The issue in audio in mostly due to Sigma maker not wanting to pay DTS for royalty, so that any audio except DTS are playable.
Workaround will require conversion but probably take a few minutes to do it. Download this small but very good audio converter,
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Audio/Audio-Convertors/PopCorn-MKV-AudioConverter.shtmlYou can convert a whole batch of directory to make life simpler.
The long and short of it is the Buy is a good investment and I have no regrets.
Cheers