My receiver's the $99 Overstock special I bought in 97 or 98 :-) Does Dolby Digital and the good old phase shift one. Video sources (DVR, Sony, computer) go directly into the TV. Audio goes to the receiver. I have a basic 5-channel set up, and aside from better bass I don't really care anymore either.
So far, the Sony's been pretty decent with all the .mkv's I've thrown at it, though the subtitling occasionally is ugly. However, I've had about 0 success in getting DLNA to work. My Nokia phone has a player / controller, I have the Sony iPod app, I have a Windows 7 machine, I've installed MediaTomb on the Mac, TVMOBiLi on Windows and Mac... And no two devices can ever see each other on the wireless, so I haven't even gotten to the transcoding issues. Maybe I'll get sufficiently cranky and bored to fire up wireshark one day and see what the heck they're doing. The Sony does, however, read an external USB drive just peachy, so I'll just park a large one next to it, I suppose.
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Date: 2011-06-20 03:52 am (UTC)So far, the Sony's been pretty decent with all the .mkv's I've thrown at it, though the subtitling occasionally is ugly. However, I've had about 0 success in getting DLNA to work. My Nokia phone has a player / controller, I have the Sony iPod app, I have a Windows 7 machine, I've installed MediaTomb on the Mac, TVMOBiLi on Windows and Mac... And no two devices can ever see each other on the wireless, so I haven't even gotten to the transcoding issues. Maybe I'll get sufficiently cranky and bored to fire up wireshark one day and see what the heck they're doing.
The Sony does, however, read an external USB drive just peachy, so I'll just park a large one next to it, I suppose.