Playing Bluray discs
Hi! I now have a number of these in my collection, not many but I'm in no doubt that the Not Many total will expand to something like Quite A Few in the not to distant future. There's nothing worse than having a small Bluray collection and no player to play them on so I started shopping. I tried one of the cheap Samsung players, seemed to work well however I had to wait! quite lengthy periods for the machine to Boot. A friend of mine suggested what should have been very obvious at the start of this exercise, I had a HP Entertainment PC which just happens to feature a Bluray capable drive so why not play the movies on that? as it happens the machine can be hooked up easily to my surround-sound via the use of a HDMI cable from the HDMI port of the PC to a HDMI port on my surround-sound receiver so I get all the great benefits of Bluray High Definition surround-sound audio as well as the video, well I don't directly benefit from the video but I'm sure you get my drift. anyone once plugged in and set up I was pleasantly surprised, computer handles the discs far faster than does the Samsung, I'm so disgusted with the Samsung to be honest that I'll be taking the player back from where I bought it from and that's something I very rararely do. Perhaps the $800.00 Samsung player would have been faster though at $800.00? Well that's nearly what I paid for this HP Entertainment PC, I've pasted the specs as follows for your interest. snip product name: DV6-2119tx product number: wf606pa Processor: 1.6ghz Core I7 720QM (6mb cache). memory: 4gb (Max 4gb). Graphics: nvidia gt230m (1gb dedicated ram). display: 15.6in (1366x768). hard drive: 640gb (5400rpm). Optical drive: Blueray RW+dvd Super Multi. modem: 56kbps fax/modem. Network: 10/100/1000mbps. Wireless: 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1. Sound: SRS Premium Sound (Altec Lansing speakers). Built inn digital tv tuner. keyboard/trackpad: standard keyboard plus numeric keypad, multitouch trackpad. slots: pc card (expresscard 54/34) integrated card reader (sd/mmc/ms/mspro/xd). ports: 4 usb 2.0 (1 shared with ESata), VGA, HDMI, IEEE1394 (firewire), RJ11 (network)/rj45 (modem), 2 headphone out, microphone in, consumer ir, digital antenna. operating system: windows 7 Home premium 32 bit. Also includes Targus premium leather carry case snip Now obviously that was a second-hand bargain I got myself for a grand, talk about give away smile. I chose this model because it had the built-in video tuner which works a treat with Windows Media Centre, I purchased a Windows 7 64-bit upgrade kit for an additional $30.00. This model is around 12 months old and the later models lack some features such as the video tuner, fax modem etc which made this machine even more attractive still, only real problem with it is the battery life which is very small and yep! the later models of HP have this problem dealt with but I figured that as I'm usually near a power outlet then battery life wouldn't worry me all that much and in any case, if I wanted portable power I had plenty of other things to do the job here like the Asus EEEPC Netbook etc. sent from my HP Powerhouse Notebook. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Playing Bluray discs
hello, great, thanks for your message about your laptop. also, you may want to check out certain sony blu ray player models, sony blu ray boots way faster then other brands, some low cost blu ray players are super slow and take forever to boot. but the better quality ones boot fast. thanks les Cd/Dvd Duplication Custom Printing Customer Service Les Gordon Phone: (267)329-8150 email: mr...@comcast.net web: http://www.cdrdvdr.com - Original Message - From: Dane trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 11:28 AM Subject: Playing Bluray discs Hi! I now have a number of these in my collection, not many but I'm in no doubt that the Not Many total will expand to something like Quite A Few in the not to distant future. There's nothing worse than having a small Bluray collection and no player to play them on so I started shopping. I tried one of the cheap Samsung players, seemed to work well however I had to wait! quite lengthy periods for the machine to Boot. A friend of mine suggested what should have been very obvious at the start of this exercise, I had a HP Entertainment PC which just happens to feature a Bluray capable drive so why not play the movies on that? as it happens the machine can be hooked up easily to my surround-sound via the use of a HDMI cable from the HDMI port of the PC to a HDMI port on my surround-sound receiver so I get all the great benefits of Bluray High Definition surround-sound audio as well as the video, well I don't directly benefit from the video but I'm sure you get my drift. anyone once plugged in and set up I was pleasantly surprised, computer handles the discs far faster than does the Samsung, I'm so disgusted with the Samsung to be honest that I'll be taking the player back from where I bought it from and that's something I very rararely do. Perhaps the $800.00 Samsung player would have been faster though at $800.00? Well that's nearly what I paid for this HP Entertainment PC, I've pasted the specs as follows for your interest. snip product name: DV6-2119tx product number: wf606pa Processor: 1.6ghz Core I7 720QM (6mb cache). memory: 4gb (Max 4gb). Graphics: nvidia gt230m (1gb dedicated ram). display: 15.6in (1366x768). hard drive: 640gb (5400rpm). Optical drive: Blueray RW+dvd Super Multi. modem: 56kbps fax/modem. Network: 10/100/1000mbps. Wireless: 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1. Sound: SRS Premium Sound (Altec Lansing speakers). Built inn digital tv tuner. keyboard/trackpad: standard keyboard plus numeric keypad, multitouch trackpad. slots: pc card (expresscard 54/34) integrated card reader (sd/mmc/ms/mspro/xd). ports: 4 usb 2.0 (1 shared with ESata), VGA, HDMI, IEEE1394 (firewire), RJ11 (network)/rj45 (modem), 2 headphone out, microphone in, consumer ir, digital antenna. operating system: windows 7 Home premium 32 bit. Also includes Targus premium leather carry case snip Now obviously that was a second-hand bargain I got myself for a grand, talk about give away smile. I chose this model because it had the built-in video tuner which works a treat with Windows Media Centre, I purchased a Windows 7 64-bit upgrade kit for an additional $30.00. This model is around 12 months old and the later models lack some features such as the video tuner, fax modem etc which made this machine even more attractive still, only real problem with it is the battery life which is very small and yep! the later models of HP have this problem dealt with but I figured that as I'm usually near a power outlet then battery life wouldn't worry me all that much and in any case, if I wanted portable power I had plenty of other things to do the job here like the Asus EEEPC Netbook etc. sent from my HP Powerhouse Notebook. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
RE: Playing Bluray discs
Doing it on the laptop is fine I guess so long as it sounds good, and hopefully you don't run into the BDs that have BDJ menus that don't allow the use of a mouse because then if you are watching a moveie that's brand new to you, you can't even go to the bathroom or you'll miss it. Like I said once here, this is how I plan to do BDs on a Media Center PC, but Cyber link are no friends of accessibility. I mean, with all the harry Potter BDs I can do some things but in a long way going into menus and everything. But, if you are watching something like Jurrasic Park, or any other BD that has BDJ menus that don't allow the use of a mouse supposedly, you had better have someone sighted at hand to be even able to pause it. This is why I hope that Windows 8 will support BDs natively. WMP and WMC are just so much easyer to use. But yeah, you're doing exactly what I plan to do Dain, accept I'd do it with a desk top. I mean, how did it sound on your HP laptop? My Toshiba can do it but it heats up, and it does kind of depreciate the audio a bit because it's sound processer isn't the best. Even if I use my Bose Companion 5 speakers you can tell it does it. -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane trethowan Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 11:28 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Playing Bluray discs Hi! I now have a number of these in my collection, not many but I'm in no doubt that the Not Many total will expand to something like Quite A Few in the not to distant future. There's nothing worse than having a small Bluray collection and no player to play them on so I started shopping. I tried one of the cheap Samsung players, seemed to work well however I had to wait! quite lengthy periods for the machine to Boot. A friend of mine suggested what should have been very obvious at the start of this exercise, I had a HP Entertainment PC which just happens to feature a Bluray capable drive so why not play the movies on that? as it happens the machine can be hooked up easily to my surround-sound via the use of a HDMI cable from the HDMI port of the PC to a HDMI port on my surround-sound receiver so I get all the great benefits of Bluray High Definition surround-sound audio as well as the video, well I don't directly benefit from the video but I'm sure you get my drift. anyone once plugged in and set up I was pleasantly surprised, computer handles the discs far faster than does the Samsung, I'm so disgusted with the Samsung to be honest that I'll be taking the player back from where I bought it from and that's something I very rararely do. Perhaps the $800.00 Samsung player would have been faster though at $800.00? Well that's nearly what I paid for this HP Entertainment PC, I've pasted the specs as follows for your interest. snip product name: DV6-2119tx product number: wf606pa Processor: 1.6ghz Core I7 720QM (6mb cache). memory: 4gb (Max 4gb). Graphics: nvidia gt230m (1gb dedicated ram). display: 15.6in (1366x768). hard drive: 640gb (5400rpm). Optical drive: Blueray RW+dvd Super Multi. modem: 56kbps fax/modem. Network: 10/100/1000mbps. Wireless: 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1. Sound: SRS Premium Sound (Altec Lansing speakers). Built inn digital tv tuner. keyboard/trackpad: standard keyboard plus numeric keypad, multitouch trackpad. slots: pc card (expresscard 54/34) integrated card reader (sd/mmc/ms/mspro/xd). ports: 4 usb 2.0 (1 shared with ESata), VGA, HDMI, IEEE1394 (firewire), RJ11 (network)/rj45 (modem), 2 headphone out, microphone in, consumer ir, digital antenna. operating system: windows 7 Home premium 32 bit. Also includes Targus premium leather carry case snip Now obviously that was a second-hand bargain I got myself for a grand, talk about give away smile. I chose this model because it had the built-in video tuner which works a treat with Windows Media Centre, I purchased a Windows 7 64-bit upgrade kit for an additional $30.00. This model is around 12 months old and the later models lack some features such as the video tuner, fax modem etc which made this machine even more attractive still, only real problem with it is the battery life which is very small and yep! the later models of HP have this problem dealt with but I figured that as I'm usually near a power outlet then battery life wouldn't worry me all that much and in any case, if I wanted portable power I had plenty of other things to do the job here like the Asus EEEPC Netbook etc. sent from my HP Powerhouse Notebook. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Playing Bluray discs
Perhaps you should have bought a Soniq B100 Blue ray player from JB HI-FI. It will play formats that a lot of the more expensive blue ray players can not handle. It includes ether net connection and USB connection so you can directly connect an external disk drive containing your AVIs and MKVs. The picture and sound is as good as you will get on players costing ten times as much. Also, if you enter a special code in the setup, it will become a player that will play disks from any region. And for all of this, us lucky people in Australia have to pay only $90 at JB HI-FI. Which probably tells us something about how much the other well known brands are gouging out of the unsuspecting public. Bob Nelson - Original Message - From: Dane trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 2:28 AM Subject: Playing Bluray discs Hi! I now have a number of these in my collection, not many but I'm in no doubt that the Not Many total will expand to something like Quite A Few in the not to distant future. There's nothing worse than having a small Bluray collection and no player to play them on so I started shopping. I tried one of the cheap Samsung players, seemed to work well however I had to wait! quite lengthy periods for the machine to Boot. A friend of mine suggested what should have been very obvious at the start of this exercise, I had a HP Entertainment PC which just happens to feature a Bluray capable drive so why not play the movies on that? as it happens the machine can be hooked up easily to my surround-sound via the use of a HDMI cable from the HDMI port of the PC to a HDMI port on my surround-sound receiver so I get all the great benefits of Bluray High Definition surround-sound audio as well as the video, well I don't directly benefit from the video but I'm sure you get my drift. anyone once plugged in and set up I was pleasantly surprised, computer handles the discs far faster than does the Samsung, I'm so disgusted with the Samsung to be honest that I'll be taking the player back from where I bought it from and that's something I very rararely do. Perhaps the $800.00 Samsung player would have been faster though at $800.00? Well that's nearly what I paid for this HP Entertainment PC, I've pasted the specs as follows for your interest. snip product name: DV6-2119tx product number: wf606pa Processor: 1.6ghz Core I7 720QM (6mb cache). memory: 4gb (Max 4gb). Graphics: nvidia gt230m (1gb dedicated ram). display: 15.6in (1366x768). hard drive: 640gb (5400rpm). Optical drive: Blueray RW+dvd Super Multi. modem: 56kbps fax/modem. Network: 10/100/1000mbps. Wireless: 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1. Sound: SRS Premium Sound (Altec Lansing speakers). Built inn digital tv tuner. keyboard/trackpad: standard keyboard plus numeric keypad, multitouch trackpad. slots: pc card (expresscard 54/34) integrated card reader (sd/mmc/ms/mspro/xd). ports: 4 usb 2.0 (1 shared with ESata), VGA, HDMI, IEEE1394 (firewire), RJ11 (network)/rj45 (modem), 2 headphone out, microphone in, consumer ir, digital antenna. operating system: windows 7 Home premium 32 bit. Also includes Targus premium leather carry case snip Now obviously that was a second-hand bargain I got myself for a grand, talk about give away smile. I chose this model because it had the built-in video tuner which works a treat with Windows Media Centre, I purchased a Windows 7 64-bit upgrade kit for an additional $30.00. This model is around 12 months old and the later models lack some features such as the video tuner, fax modem etc which made this machine even more attractive still, only real problem with it is the battery life which is very small and yep! the later models of HP have this problem dealt with but I figured that as I'm usually near a power outlet then battery life wouldn't worry me all that much and in any case, if I wanted portable power I had plenty of other things to do the job here like the Asus EEEPC Netbook etc. sent from my HP Powerhouse Notebook. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Playing Bluray discs
I'm going to reserve my judgement on this. I appreciate why you're mentioning this but I don't necessarily agree with your assertion that manufacturers are making huge profets on these things rather some company's are prepared to take massive shortcuts when it comes to quality control and manufacturer of these devices. Warnings have been posted in our local papers computer column recently about this sort of thing, how such cheap devices have been known to Catch Fire, not last as long as the more expensive device and so on. I bought one of the cheap Aldi DVD players for $50.00 quite some time back, that device no longer works but the Panasonic player I paid $300.00 still works as far as I know, certainly the Pioneer I paid $700.00 certainly works and there's one hell of a difference in the quality even between the Panasonic and the Pioneer, can't verify the video so much but I certainly can the audio, far better decoding circuitry used, faster at loading DVD'S, quieter transport etc. On 22/11/2011, at 9:21 AM, R Nelson wrote: Perhaps you should have bought a Soniq B100 Blue ray player from JB HI-FI. It will play formats that a lot of the more expensive blue ray players can not handle. It includes ether net connection and USB connection so you can directly connect an external disk drive containing your AVIs and MKVs. The picture and sound is as good as you will get on players costing ten times as much. Also, if you enter a special code in the setup, it will become a player that will play disks from any region. And for all of this, us lucky people in Australia have to pay only $90 at JB HI-FI. Which probably tells us something about how much the other well known brands are gouging out of the unsuspecting public. Bob Nelson - Original Message - From: Dane trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 2:28 AM Subject: Playing Bluray discs Hi! I now have a number of these in my collection, not many but I'm in no doubt that the Not Many total will expand to something like Quite A Few in the not to distant future. There's nothing worse than having a small Bluray collection and no player to play them on so I started shopping. I tried one of the cheap Samsung players, seemed to work well however I had to wait! quite lengthy periods for the machine to Boot. A friend of mine suggested what should have been very obvious at the start of this exercise, I had a HP Entertainment PC which just happens to feature a Bluray capable drive so why not play the movies on that? as it happens the machine can be hooked up easily to my surround-sound via the use of a HDMI cable from the HDMI port of the PC to a HDMI port on my surround-sound receiver so I get all the great benefits of Bluray High Definition surround-sound audio as well as the video, well I don't directly benefit from the video but I'm sure you get my drift. anyone once plugged in and set up I was pleasantly surprised, computer handles the discs far faster than does the Samsung, I'm so disgusted with the Samsung to be honest that I'll be taking the player back from where I bought it from and that's something I very rararely do. Perhaps the $800.00 Samsung player would have been faster though at $800.00? Well that's nearly what I paid for this HP Entertainment PC, I've pasted the specs as follows for your interest. snip product name: DV6-2119tx product number: wf606pa Processor: 1.6ghz Core I7 720QM (6mb cache). memory: 4gb (Max 4gb). Graphics: nvidia gt230m (1gb dedicated ram). display: 15.6in (1366x768). hard drive: 640gb (5400rpm). Optical drive: Blueray RW+dvd Super Multi. modem: 56kbps fax/modem. Network: 10/100/1000mbps. Wireless: 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1. Sound: SRS Premium Sound (Altec Lansing speakers). Built inn digital tv tuner. keyboard/trackpad: standard keyboard plus numeric keypad, multitouch trackpad. slots: pc card (expresscard 54/34) integrated card reader (sd/mmc/ms/mspro/xd). ports: 4 usb 2.0 (1 shared with ESata), VGA, HDMI, IEEE1394 (firewire), RJ11 (network)/rj45 (modem), 2 headphone out, microphone in, consumer ir, digital antenna. operating system: windows 7 Home premium 32 bit. Also includes Targus premium leather carry case snip Now obviously that was a second-hand bargain I got myself for a grand, talk about give away smile. I chose this model because it had the built-in video tuner which works a treat with Windows Media Centre, I purchased a Windows 7 64-bit upgrade kit for an additional $30.00. This model is around 12 months old and the later models lack some features such as the video tuner, fax modem etc which made this machine even more attractive still, only real problem with it is the battery life which is very small and yep! the later models of HP have this problem dealt with but I
Pairing Mono Bluetooth Audio Device With Ipod Touch
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RE: Pairing Mono Bluetooth Audio Device With Ipod Touch
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