Topic: What's next after buying a new Panel?

[alcavey]

Hello po mga kapatid.
First time owner po ng flat panel. Puro CRT lang po ang gamit namin before eh.
Kakabili ko lang ng Sony 42ex410 para sa living room.

Sa ngayon po, USB playback and cable tv palang naeenjoy ko.
Kaso mejo bitin.. kasi yung mga nalalagay ko palang sa USB flash disk ko,
mga HD Trailers and Music Videos palang; approx 50mbs lang yun from youtube.
Masyadong malaki kasi yung full/tru HD movies para i download! 
(currently downloading cars2. almost 8gb!)

So ang tanong po is, what's next para ma enjoy ko ang bagong tv ko?

>Ps3? (For gaming and bluray playback, di po ba? Kaso from what I've heard limited ang file format support and hanggang fat32 lang siya)

>Simpleng dvd player? (Applicable pa po ba ito sa era ngayon? Pag nabibisita ako sa mga tindahan ng dvd, may minamarket silang bluray daw pero playable sa mga dvd player.. 1080p kuno... What's that about?)

>Bluray player? (for straight up bluray disc playback. alam ko meron under 4k sa cd-r king? tama ba?)

or

>yung mga NMT that I've been hearing so much about? (Clueless po ako about NMTs. Di ko nga alam yung ibig sabihin ng abbreviation eh. Basta ang alam ko player siya na pwede mo lagyan ng usb flash disk or hard drive mismo and siya na mageencode ng files mo para ma display yung video/audio sa mga tv natin)

And last question.. Kelangan ko ba talaga yang mga yan^?

Hindi po bat pwede ko naman i connect ang pc ko sa hdtv ko thru either a) vga to vga b)dvi to hdmi c)hdmi to hdmi? I don't mind the hassle of doing it everytime I wanna watch some flicks anyway.

As a matter of fact natry ko na nga po i connect using option A! ok naman po yung games.
Ayun nga lang walang audio. Haha. Hopefully may audio na sa option B and C (will try later)

And more importantly, iba po ba yung quality ng video playback pag ps3/dvd player/bd player/nmt to hdtv compared with
pc to hdtv (using vlc or media player classic) or same lang rin?

Pasensya na po, confused lang talaga ako 
TIA PinoyDVD brethren!

[raider125jeigh]

receiver
speakers 5.1
ps3
media player

[Courage]

receiver
speakers 5.1
ps3
media player

Ha ha ha...  naka spot ka na naman nang victim brader he he

[≧◉◡◉≦xrampage≧◉◡◉≦]

receiver
speakers 5.1
ps3
media player

Madami ka pa need bilhin brader.

AV receiver
5.1 Speakers
Bluray
NMT
PS3 if your a gamer.

 

Ha ha ha...  naka spot ka na naman nang victim brader he he

Nag salita ang hindi nangungulam. 

[Courage]

Madami ka pa need bilhin brader.

AV receiver
5.1 Speakers
Bluray
NMT
PS3 if your a gamer.

 

Nag salita ang hindi nangungulam. 

Brader di ako nangungulam... Good directions lang and helping out a friend ha ha ha

[≧◉◡◉≦xrampage≧◉◡◉≦]

Brader di ako nangungulam... Good directions lang and helping out a friend ha ha ha

Nasan na ba si joko siya na lang kulang para kumpleto na ang post natin dito.

May kulang pa pala sa bibilhin ni brader need pa niya AV regulator para safe ang appliance niya. 

[DTNS]

receiver
speakers 5.1
ps3
media player

naunahan mo ko! 

[tigkal]

Limited resolution yata ang tv pag ginamit as monitor via vga.If hdmi naman, hindi full hd ang laptop, unless your laptop can display full hd. I do not know via tv usb if kaya full hd. If satisfied ka naman sa current setup video wise, then sa sound ka nalang upgrade for that cinema feeling.. let the kulam force be with you.. 

[at_sunset_blvd]

Just get a media player w/ a 2tb HDD & you're good to go 

..But if you seek for more like sound quality & explosiveness, naku then thats the start of the itch infection

Goodluck Brader 

[alcavey]

Salamat po sa mga input niyo! 

Sa ngayon, kinabit ko muna yung 2.1 speakers ko via RCA cable.
Big improvement na agad from the panel's feeble 20w speakers.

Nagexperiment ako dun sa pc connections.
May slight improvement siya kapag dvi, and as a matter of fact content na ko sa display quality.
Ayun nga lang, wala pa ring audio in. Kaya sinaksak ko nalang headset ko dun sa PC. Haha.
So later bibili ako ng hdmi cable. Sabi po nila ok naman daw hdmi sa cdr king? tama ba?

[anya618]

Just get a media player w/ a 2tb HDD & you're good to go 

..But if you seek for more like sound quality & explosiveness, naku then thats the start of the itch infection

Goodluck Brader 

+1 on the media player

[at_sunset_blvd]

+1 on the media player

or get a Blu-ray deck for a True Full HD quality pics & SQ, then Sir Anya will supply you the necessary BDs

[alcavey]

My friend brought over his ps3 and I also got to test out connecting my pc via hdmi cable and I could not fault the display quality! 

So I'm definitely considering buying either a media player or a ps3(doubles as bluray player).
Or perhaps and external HDD first.

[Courage]

My friend brought over his ps3 and I also got to test out connecting my pc via hdmi cable and I could not fault the display quality!  

So I'm definitely considering buying either a media player or a ps3(doubles as bluray player).
Or perhaps and external HDD first.

I suggest after buying a PS3, go get your self an NMT. If in case you want to watch your HiDef MKV's

[toys4geeks]

congrats on your display panel.

if you like games over movies, PS3 muna

check your display with a USB storage if it works on all your files, USB ka na muna and grab a huge storage and randomly play video with various formats. however, if may sablay, (likely), go grab an HD player coz panels do not have codec updates unlike NMT. NMT = Network Media Tank, or HD Media player

I'd go for a simple NMT + 2TB disk game na yan 2TB ~ 300+ movies so decide what kind you like in them,  keeping in mind when its listed there, kids can access (if you have one at home).

[alcavey]

The USB playback is definitely flawed.
At first, I had trouble playing .mkvs with dts and vorbis audio codecs, but I figured out how to change them to aac then remux with the video file using Popcord mkv audio converter.

My main problem now are subtitles.
Lots of my mkv files(anime) have soft subs which we can simply enable/disable when played on our PCs
but no option to do so in this Bravia's usb playback.

Once again, salamat po sa lahat ng mga narecommend niyo. I appreciate it!

edit:
After a whole day of experimenting.. extracting the subs, saving it as .srt, .sub, .ssa, .avs, etc
changing it from UTF-8 to ANSI and Unicode, it seems like making soft subtitles appear is downright impossible.

So I gave in and decided to re encode the video file while Hard subbing it.
Took a few tries! Strangely, when I selected mkv as the container it would not show, but when I selected the mp4 container, it did.

So problem solved! Mapagtyatyagaan pala muna ang usb playback 

[toys4geeks]

The USB playback is definitely flawed.
At first, I had trouble playing .mkvs with dts and vorbis audio codecs, but I figured out how to change them to aac then remux with the video file using Popcord mkv audio converter.

My main problem now are subtitles.
Lots of my mkv files(anime) have soft subs which we can simply enable/disable when played on our PCs
but no option to do so in this Bravia's usb playback.

Once again, salamat po sa lahat ng mga narecommend niyo. I appreciate it!

ok lang to remux pero nakakapagod din over time if you have to do it everytime. 

try to move your soft sub to the same folder as your file, rename exactly as you named *.avi *.mpg, but with the subtitle extension (.sub or .srt, etc) hope that works for you.

[fattyacid]

Get an HTIB with BD/media player capability.

[robot.sonic]

Suggestion ko NMT muna. Ganyan din kasi ginawa ko.

[allanbriz]

Sir, check out this thread if you need speakers: http://www.pinoydvd.com/index.php/topic,70456.4830.html

[raptor]

you can follow this order -

1. NMT + large capacity HDD with goodies
2. AV Receiver + 2.0 speakers
3. Center Speaker
4. Surround Speakers
5. Sub-woofer
6. PS3, XBox, or Wii if you're into gaming or BD player - this may go into any of the sequence