[batman1056]

I am upgrading my TV to the one from Aldi - and am looking for a decent DVD player that plays back DIVX etc and HD Divx.

I have been using an external HD to store all my media and linked that to my USB port on my Divx player and it works great on normal Tv - but its not HD compatible -

What is the best combo for playing back HD and HD Divx - I was going to use my Xbox 360 but that does not do Divx

[emporer]

I can recommend a Buffalo Linktheater, they are just over 100 quid and are super, wifi and lan port and will play any kind of file over a network or of optical media and even has a usb port on the front for an external hdd should you wish to play off that. I play .TS stuff on mine mainly and its faultless, same with hd divx and wmv etc, much more flexible than a 360 (although i do love my 360!!). I have mine on the home wifi and it struggles a bit with .TS stuff but any kind of divx/wmv etc hd or sd streams fine. It will also upconvert dvd's too. Superb bit of kit and cant recommend it enough!!

[batman1056]

thanks - how does the Kiss 1600 compare with that?

[MAW]

Off topic a bit, but

I am upgrading my TV to the one from Aldi

is a contradiction in terms. It is impossible to 'upgrade' to a TV from Aldi. Do your homework, there are better bargains out there.

[batman1056]

Originally Posted by MAW

Off topic a bit, but is a contradiction in terms. It is impossible to 'upgrade' to a TV from Aldi. Do your homework, there are better bargains out there.

I have had a look around and the specs on the Aldi 47" LCD is not bad at all - what would you recommend instead>

Just bought the aldi one today - can still take back - need to test it out on my 360 and other devices

[bigtim]

Originally Posted by batman1056

I am upgrading my TV to the one from Aldi - and am looking for a decent DVD player that plays back DIVX etc and HD Divx.

I have been using an external HD to store all my media and linked that to my USB port on my Divx player and it works great on normal Tv - but its not HD compatible -

What is the best combo for playing back HD and HD Divx - I was going to use my Xbox 360 but that does not do Divx

I thought the next XBOX360 update was going to include DivX support? Sure I've read that, have a google.

[MAW]

Tim, nothing wrong with the specs, it's the actual items that have, in the past, always been riddled with problems. Threads thousands of posts long, they start by singing a happy song, but soon all goes sour. Look for judder, poor black levels, smearing, tearing, the usual cheap LCD trouble. Other Aldi sets have suffered odd patters in the background, 2-second blackouts on RGB scart, chronic unreliability, and very patchy factory support. You are better off with a proper brand name, even a naff one like LG or Samsung is a healthy step up.

[batman1056]

I can see where ur coming from and the brand does make a difference - but sometimes u end up paying for the Make - I use an XPS Dell laptopp and was quoted around 1900 for it - a bit of haggling and got it for 1380 - Brands are everything -and profit is everything - If Aldi can sell Philips LCD panels in their own 'cheaper' brand and get some of these problems resolves then they will be on a winner. - They remind me of Dell - inside the machines/devices the products are Sony/HP etc etc. - but the brand is Dell - what u have to remember is that your buying a quality product with a crap brand..

I'll probably eat my words tonight when I plug this thing in

I have had a few electrical items from Aldi - inc my DVD player and its great - even got a 400gig HD hooked up to playback my files from this rather than CD. - Thanks for your feeback -

[ash]

Originally Posted by emporer

I can recommend a Buffalo Linktheater, they are just over 100 quid and are super, wifi and lan port and will play any kind of file over a network or of optical media and even has a usb port on the front for an external hdd should you wish to play off that. I play .TS stuff on mine mainly and its faultless, same with hd divx and wmv etc, much more flexible than a 360 (although i do love my 360!!). I have mine on the home wifi and it struggles a bit with .TS stuff but any kind of divx/wmv etc hd or sd streams fine. It will also upconvert dvd's too. Superb bit of kit and cant recommend it enough!!

Sounds interesting, it doesn't paly x264/mkv files does it though?
If not, how would you convert them to be compatiable?

[emporer]

correct, it doesnt play h264/mkv files although ive yet to try them since i upped the f/w a while back, i'll try that tonight, it does play pretty much everything else though and plays them well.

[ash]

Shame it has no DVI/HDMI out, does it have component out?

[emporer]

it has component out which is the only output for us euro people to get hd rez

[batman1056]

got the 5980 but it does not allow external Harddrives to be attached via the USB - any other HDMI players which can do Ultra DIVX and allow extranl harddrives?

[batman1056]

Originally Posted by emporer

I play .TS stuff on mine mainly and its faultless, same with hd divx and wmv etc

what is .TS

[john999boy]

Or how about getting the Helios X3000? It does HD divx & HD avi plus .TS files BUT not .mkv ones. It works either via wireless or ethernet - the latter being better for the high bit rates sometimes involved. There's also a USB socket on the front.

[batman1056]

was are TS files and .mkv files ?

[bobsters]

I'd say that if you don't know what a ts or mkv file is, then you won't need a player that can handle them.

A ts is a transport stream, usually has high bitrate.
An mkv is a container, just like avi. Usually people use mkv for storing x264 vids, and high res tv shows.

[Xerotrace]

I Don't think theres anything out there that does MKV Atm. Could be

[batman1056]

Originally Posted by bobsters

I'd say that if you don't know what a ts or mkv file is, then you won't need a player that can handle them.

A ts is a transport stream, usually has high bitrate.
An mkv is a container, just like avi. Usually people use mkv for storing x264 vids, and high res tv shows.

I normally just have AVI/Divx/Xvid media format to std res or HD res

I guess the only real option for playing everything you could possibly want (MKV, DivX HR, Regular DivX) is to build yourself a fast PC with HDMI out...?

If I was happy with DivX HR for the moment, is there a decent standalone player out there? I saw yesterday in Currys they were using a Kiss DP-600 to play Hi Def WMV files, and looking online it seems this will play HR DivX files.

Anyone got one of these?

James