Slight threadjack, with intentional terible pun:
Balls to Sony Bravia: My parents got a fancy new tv/hd/media setup inc. Bravia TV, with USB. Housesat for them this weekend & loaded up a flashdrive with the 4th season of 30rock only to discover that Sony are too tight to support .avi, .divx &c. I've got a £10 dvd player at home with usb that plays absolutely anything!
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Fri 9 Jul 2010, 10:12,
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I've held off buying any fancy TV equipment for a few years
I don't even have a flat-screen yet. I'm hoping the standards will settle down (along with the prices) over the next couple of years.
I just hope my current wide-screen telly doesn't break soon - it's about 13 years old!
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Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 9 Jul 2010, 10:29,
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We're seriously considering giving away our TV,
as most of the stuff we watch is from t'internet.
Though I don't relish the constant shit that my (tv-free) brother & his gf have endured from the tv licence peeps for the last 4yrs.
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Fri 9 Jul 2010, 11:49,
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Firmware update
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mr.dogshit The world's premier anthropomorphic canine faeces, Fri 9 Jul 2010, 12:07,
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a/ Not sure if that's possible- googled it & came across loads of people bitching about Sony being too tight to pay for codecs to get anything other than mpeg to work.
b/ My parent's tv: Could not be arsed. It was a sunny day- I just ponced around topping up my vitamin D.
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Fri 9 Jul 2010, 12:35,
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partly the problem is if they offer it, it has to work.
It's easier to get support right for 1 or 2 formats than for the 28trillion audio/video codecs and wrapper formats out there. And because it is Sony, people will bitch if the playback of their .avi/wmv/xdiv etc's has an issues like lagging frames, chunky pixels, no sound etc and all the other issues you get with those 'all format' players.
Besides Sony are a major entertainment conglomerate making/owning music and film and rather people paid for their CDs/DVDs/bluRAYs than give the option of watching 'stolen' stuff.
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Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Fri 9 Jul 2010, 15:23,
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