POPCORN HOUR A-400 is coming soon - Page 7

Originally Posted by breadvan 

I rip to full disc ISO only, and this is what I do:
1. I got DVDFab Passkey, and the free and awesome Imageburn
2. DVDFab is a very simple decryption utility, all you need to do is to set some very minor preferences, and start the program whenever you want to rip anything
3. Insert the BD/DVD you want to rip
4. DVDFab will attempt to find the encryption on the disc and decrypt it, once decrypted,
5. Run Imageburn, select the optic drive you want to rip the disc from, and the destination and name of your ISO file
6. Click 'Image File from Disc'
That's it !

Originally Posted by Wryker 

^^correct. No netflix but with so many BD, TVs, PS3, XBOX, etc already having it it should not be an issue for most. No issue for me since I dropped that part when they bumped up the subscription cost: I will take physical media over streaming any day.

Originally Posted by Gary J 

I rip to full disc ISO with Lifetime AnyDVD HD. and this is what I do:
1. Rip
That's it !

Originally Posted by Ph8te 

. . . NetFlix wants them to be "closed" and more secure, which Sybase wasnt willing to do. . .

Originally Posted by MarkHotchkiss 

Just a little fine-tuning: . . . NetFlix's content-providers wants them to be "closed" and more secure, which Sybase wasn't able to do.
In order to satisfy the security requirements, you need to start with an platform approved by NetFlix. The Sigma SoCs used in prior PCH players never received NetFlix's approval. As far as I know, the 891x family does not yet have NetFlix certification, but I'm sure it is on Sigma's 'to-do' list. I would not hold my breath, though.

Originally Posted by Gary J 

I rip to full disc ISO with Lifetime AnyDVD HD. and this is what I do:
1. Rip
That's it !

Originally Posted by breadvan 

I could do it too with Passkey with a right click function, I just gotten used to my silly old routine.
I should have mentioned this, thanks for alerting me.

Originally Posted by aaronwt 

You can do the same thing with Any DVD HD. But I typically just use Image Burn with Any DVD HD running in the background.

Originally Posted by Ph8te 

I think its still too early, the devices were not expected to ship until next week. From a look on the PCH forum it seems that EU resellers are stating tehre is goign to be around a 2-3 week delay for the devices.........As soon as someone does get one, beleive me if they are a part of this forum theyd post here

Originally Posted by essg88 

has anyone received their pre-order units yet?

Originally Posted by dropzone7 

Will this unit do full BD-ISO menus? Not just BD-Lite navigation. I would like to try a PCH player but I don't want another dumbed down unit that won't play all my content. I currently have a Dune Base 3.0 that does pretty much everything I want. I also have a Mede8er 500 that is great for simple navigation on a second setup but because of the way it reads certain BD-ISO files, it sometimes plays the wrong file such as a narrated version or directors commentary version. I guess this is normal for BD-Lite navigation as I think it just plays the largest file? I have a few movies that are rendered useless due to this unless I'm playing them on the Dune.

Originally Posted by dbone1026 

No full bd menu support

Originally Posted by dropzone7 

Thanks Damian. So it sounds like I need to buy a few old C200's and or Dune's if I want to utilize my full BD-ISO's. I just started using MKV for my new rips which is much simpler anyway.

Originally Posted by dbone1026 

Yup, full BD support will be gone with all new players

Originally Posted by dropzone7 

Wow, kind of takes away the incentive to buy anything new. It does help me make up my mind about all formats going forward though. No reason to do anything but MKV. Too bad I just renewed my DVDFab license. I guess I will still use that for my wife's TV show DVD's which are all old stuff anyway. She likes having the menus for episodes.

Originally Posted by dropzone7 

Thanks Damian. So it sounds like I need to buy a few old C200's and or Dune's if I want to utilize my full BD-ISO's. I just started using MKV for my new rips which is much simpler anyway.

Originally Posted by Gary J 

I like the C200 option. Not sure how MKV is simpler than rip->ISO = done.

Originally Posted by robneal81 

I rip 99% of my movies in .mkv. There are a few scenarios where I need .iso support:
- 3D blu ray's (although if the A-400 will play 3D MKV, I'd immediately switch to MKV!!)
- Concert discs: It's nice to be able to choose a song.
- TV shows: Most of the time I rip each individual episode to .mkv, but sometime's that's just way too much work.
- Special features: Some discs have really cool special features, like the re-release of jaws.
- Multi-version movies: Best example: Apocalypse Now. You have the choice of playing the original or Redux. The whole .iso is about 50GB and if I wanted to use mkv, I'd have to rip it twice: Once for the original (35GB) and once for the redux (45GB). The .iso just uses a "playlist" to select scenes for each.
- Audio track incompatibilities: I've found some MKV's won't play at all in my current player (Oppo BDP-93), but if I make them basic movie-only .iso's they play fine. Certain types of audio tracks seem to be the cause. I'm not sure if the A-400 will have this issue.
- I've also found that some subtitles won't work in .mkv files on some players.
All that being said, basic iso playback with lite menu support should cover all of that, right?

Originally Posted by dbone1026 

Yes, just keep in mind that bd lite will give you basic support. You can choose titles but it won't be clear exactly what title you are choosing. For example, with a TV Show disc you will see a title for each episode but no way of knowing what episode is each titles without playing first

Originally Posted by dbone1026 

Yes, just keep in mind that bd lite will give you basic support. You can choose titles but it won't be clear exactly what title you are choosing. For example, with a TV Show disc you will see a title for each episode but no way of knowing what episode is each titles without playing first

Originally Posted by robneal81 

Are you sure? I have a Netgear TV-550 that supposedly only supports bd lite and it's worked with every .iso menu I've tried. The menu won't pop up during the movie (I don't care about that anyway), but the main menu and it's subfolders work.

Originally Posted by dropzone7 

Also, as in my situation, a few of my full BD-ISO rips include directors commentary versions of the film like those Maximum movie versions which may be larger than the actual movie. In these cases, BD-Lite is going to play the largest file which might not necessarily be the theatrical version of the film. One example just last night was X-Men First Class.