Posts by JST200

Hi Robert, Thanks for the welcome! :-) To be precise/pedantic Win 8 will upgrade from Win XP SP3. So if you have Win XP SP2 you have to install SP3, not a big issue but something to be aware of. The install DVD wont even run if you...

I haven't been here for quite some time. Glad, and amazed, to see it's still going! Anyone tried Windows 8 Pro on the XL3 (02) yet? I've installed win 8 on quite a few other pcs over the last month or so and it seems a lot faster than...

Sorry, I think this post has gone in the wrong place. I meant it to go in the vaio xl3 thread. The perils of driving posts with a tablet! If a moderator can delete this thread, please feel free!

I haven't been here for quite some time. Glad, and amazed, to see it's still going! Anyone tried Windows 8 Pro on the XL3 (02) yet? I've installed win 8 on quite a few other pcs over the last month or so and it seems a lot faster than...

At last a PCI DVB-T2 tuner is available for those with XL3's who want a tuner capable of receiving Freeview HD - sorry, this is no doubt gobbledygook to those across...

Hi all, Thanks for all your suggestion and help, but I have just discovered what has been causing all my Blu-ray Audio and Video dropouts when streaming across the network from my WHS Server! On WHS there is a brilliant Add-In for...

Darren, the disks are in transit. Should be with you by Saturday. Cheers, Jim

Ethernet connected running at Gigabit speed, Robert. Doing large file transfers between the XL302 and the Windows Home Server I achieve 90MB/s (i.e. disk transfer rates), so I'm pretty sure its not the network (I think Blu-ray play back...

Quote: you must be pulling a belated April's Fool's Joke that the DVD stuttering issue is back yet again. My tale of neverending woe is summarized a bit earlier in this thread and extensively documented in the "God I hate Arcsoft's...

On a completely different topic... what do you guys use to play DVDs and Blu-rays? Specifically playing DVDs and Blu-Rays that are stored on a network PC (in my case a Windows Home Server). The DVDs and Blu-rays are stored as files...