Official 2012 Sony BDP-S790 Thread - Page 78

Hmm ... Did it say 18900 points ? That should be $189 with $5 for shipping.

It should be under deal of the week.

No. Now, it says 22,900 points.

With 15 quantity left. Sorry, I don't know how to paste the image of the web page.

Thanks again.

I believe the deal is only for folks who are Sony Visa card members.

Is there any way to turn OFF the auto shut down behavior?

No.

Confirmed here as well. I have a 750GB Toshiba 7200 rpm hooked up and playing my .m2ts BDRebuilder transcoded movies perfectly through the USB port only.

189.00 is the same price I paid J&R around Christmas time with free shipping. Great deal. I'm sure the 790 is on borrowed time now. New models must be just around the corner.

The BDP-S790 continues on into 2013, and remains the flagship player. The new players announced will replace the lesser models (590, 390, 185)

For those who regularly play SACDs using this player, are there any quirks I should know about in regards to its SACD playback? Will it pass DSD via HDMI?

Umm... I've not experienced any quirks. It will pass DSD over HDMI fine. Tested with my Denon AVR4311.

Just got this player. I don't have time to read 78 pages right now. Does anyone have lip sync issues when using Netflix? DVDs/Blu-rays are fine. I'm getting noticeable audio sync issues only with Netflix (audio is leading the video). The Options button doesn't do anything inside of Netflix as far as getting to the AV sync menu. I came from a PS3, which had zero AV sync issues across all types of media.

I haven't noticed any lip sync issues on mine on Netflix or blu-rays. I have it connected to an Onkyo RC270 receiver and then to TV via HDMI. Maybe try another HDMI cable just to be sure the player is not defective.

Maybe try turning off the SBM option? I think that is the name? It is supposed to smooth the streaming video over various connection speeds I believe.

What happens if you rewind back the content for a second or two and then start playing again. Sometimes this corrects sync issues with Netflix content.

You didn't change the AV sync setting when playing other content did you? E.g Crackle. Yes, I know the setting isn't visible in the netflix client, but its possible the setting can effect Netflix.

It seems to be the day of sync issues. So I have a bunch of music videos in Mp4 containers. Video Codec is AVC H264 with AAC audio. Nothing particularly special. Many of these videos plays fine on the S790 ... BUT i have found many have audio sync issues. If I play the same videos on Apple TV 2 or 3, or my Mac I dont hear any issues with audio sync.

Has anyone else ran into sync issues on the S790 with Mp4 containers with AVC H264 video ... and if so, anyway to fix the problem?

I've tried different DLNA servers, and no transcoding going on here.

Also tested the same files on a USB stick ... same issue.
Edited by apw2607 - 2/7/13 at 4:39pm

Did you try the AV Sync in the menu of the 790 or your AVR?
Edited by InfernoST - 2/7/13 at 4:48pm

Yea, but unfortunately we're talking about 5 seconds or so. Its way off.

Anyway, I did fix it.

Seems as if the WD Live TV has (or had) the same issue with just mp4 containers and AVC/AAC content.

The way to fix the issue for both the WD Live and the Sony BDP-S790 is to Remux the mp4 container into a MKV with MKVMerge. You *must* turn OFF compression, otherwise the MKV will break.

Once I created a MKV from the mp4 then no more sync issues .. .and all you're doing is putting the original video and audio in another "carrier bag".

What a royal PITA. Ugh. My patience is waning on these quirky local file playback issues. Perhaps I should just buy a Oppo ;-)

Thanks guys. Now I'm off to purchase a 1TB WD My Passport Studio.

I was thinking about getting the Oppo until you helped me out with my streaming issue. These devices shouldn't be so finicky.

just moved my S790 temporarily from my home theater from to my living room due a new TV there, and now I notice a high pitched noise emitting from the drive if I have a disc in the drive not in play.The drive would just spin the disc at a constant high RPM and waiting for my command. I guess I don't notice this noise because I rarely just leave the disc in the drive. I just press play as soon as I turn on my projector, and get on with the movie. I did a google search, I guess this is a very common issue. Is this something Sony can repair or this is "normal"? I was gonna get another from the Sonyreward site for $189 + $5 shipping, now I am not so sure.

If the disk is left in it will spin unfortunately.

Anyone?

i'm not getting HD when streaming netflix HD content. they tell me i don't have enough MBS through the player. i think thats boloney. anybody know where i can find the MBS to check?

The largest I've tried is 1TB. I don't know the limit.
I don't know of any way to play ISO's. You need something like a WDTV for that.

If you want to use the sony or any other blu-ray player (except Oppo I think) for file streaming, you'll need to use DLNA rather than external drives and you'll need to convert your rips to mkv or something like that. It's not really designed to work the way you're proposing.

Yes, exactly.

merceg100: it will be able to read two USB drives. One connected in the front of the unit, and one in the back. Thats it for "direct" connection. Its not able to see Windows or Mac shared network drives, or NAS devices ... without DLNA as mdavej says above.

Another note is that if you have a partitioned drive when using USB, it will only see the first partition !!

And no ISO support for DVD, BDs.

I use a USB powered WD My Passport 2TB Hard Drive and mkv rips. It works great. I use Handbrake and the quality is quite nice. ISOs are definitely not supported.

I was hoping you guys could help me. I know this BD player has the option to display true 24p. I have my s790 hooked up to a Sony HW50ES projector and I just don't like the results on 24p content. Last night I watched the Avengers and It almost seems to have slight tearing in panning scenes which I guess is normal for 24p content. What settings should I use on the S790 to help smooth this out?

Simply turn BD 24p output to off (rather than the default setting, which is AUTO).

Although I'm amazed that the Sony HW50ES looks so bad with 24p input. Thats a expensive projector. You might want to look at settings on the projector itself that can help with that type of issue.

My cheapo Panasonic PT-AE4000 has something called frame interpolation mode ... and when set to mode1 it really helps with 24p panning scenes on a large screen.

Well ... after careful consideration ... I have a bunch of music videos in 3 different formats. M4V (H264/AVC), VOB (Mpeg2 NTSC and PAL (interlaced)). I wanted playlist support with shuffle and better zoom/scaling since much content is 4:3, but wanted to fill to 16:9. Although i could sort of work around these with the S790 with Serviio, and playlist support, remux the M4Vs to MKVs (to get around a audio sync problem) .... in the end, it was just too much fiddling around.

I thought about the Oppo 103, since it appears to be good with all these different formats BUT Oppo has issues too. Folks are currently complaining about what its doing with Netflix video quality with its video post processing. Streaming content on the Oppo is generally weak. The Roku stick is clunky so you end up needing another streaming box anyway.

I like the S790 video quality and its streaming services, so decided just to go for a local network streaming device. Just ordered a Dune TV 303D ...

http://dune-hd.com/eng/products/full_hd_media_players/36

on the face of it, it looks like it can deal with just about everything ... and the user interface looks quite nice too. You can even drop in a 2.5" drive in the SATA bay.

I will say for a lot of folks the S790 and the other 2012 Sony BD players, their DLNA abilities are probably good enough for everday use or for backup disks .. its just my collection kind of goes beyond that now. The owners manuals are now out for the 2013 Sony BD players and I see no difference to what the players can support in terms of formats/codecs/containers with DLNA.

I use the S790 for blu-ray discs and I have a WDTV SMP for MKVs. And as very last resort I have an HTPC with a blu-ray drive in case something won't play. I have not needed to power on the HTPC in the past 12 months. Between the S790 and the WDTV I am covered 100% for all my media needs.