Best Players for movies with Cinevia

[GregiBoy]

I can only agree with Jonatan....

I have been using and advocating Media Players for nigh on ten years and every user on this forum that has taken this path has never looked back.

The covenience is OUTSTANDING
No more worries about burning

Stop wasting you're time and money on those disc players and DVD and bds.
media players are the future no cinavia stay away from Sony tho I love my aios box and my wdtv Gen 2 pretty sweet to

[maineman]

?..
every user on this forum that has taken this path has never looked back.

Well, almost, but let me explain.
My daughter just bought a t-shirt for me that she claims was "made for my Dad".

It says,

"I followed the road less traveled and now
I don't know where I am"


Seriously, Greg is spot on !!!

[tommyboy714]

How do you get the movie from the computer to the Pivos AIOS ?

[maineman]

How do you get the movie from the computer to the Pivos AIOS ?

I don't use a pc.

I have a 2 TB hdd installed in my AIOS and a 4 bay mediasonic (JBOD) with an additional 4 x 2 TB hdds...
all connected via usb which is fine for playback..
The AIOS connects to my tv via HDMI

[tommyboy714]

How do you put the movie on to the AIOS or the 4 bay mediasonic ?

[GregiBoy]

Create file using RIPPER module, copy and paste either over network or by USB connectionof the player or the HDD device.

[murffee1]

I can only agree with Jonatan....

I have been using and advocating Media Players for nigh on ten years and every user on this forum that has taken this path has never looked back.

The covenience is OUTSTANDING
No more worries about burning

I too agree that media players are the only way to go. i thank you guys for pointing me in that direction. A coiple of years ago I purchased the Argosy HV335T and I am happy with that purchase. I have heard a lot of good things about the AIOS. Is it worth the money to change over from the Argosy?
Thanks

[maineman]

I too agree that media players are the only way to go. i thank you guys for pointing me in that direction. A coiple of years ago I purchased the Argosy HV335T and I am happy with that purchase. I have heard a lot of good things about the AIOS. Is it worth the money to change over from the Argosy?
Thanks

I also have the HV335T and purchased the AIOS about a year ago, perhaps a bit more.
My opinion, a huge improvement.
It will play anything I throw at it, including BD mkv conversions and .ISO's, which honestly, are rare for me.

It'll also handle any of the audio files including Dolby TrueHD, which in and of itself, is a marked improvement over the Argosy.

The one complaint I have is the remote....it just plain sucks, but I've gotten used to it and I'm ok with it.
While it offers a great deal with respect to options/functions, the layout itself is horrible....3rd graders could have done a better job.

PIVOS has since replaced the remote with an improved model.
Amazon and newegg may still have some the old stock, but with some digging, hopefully you'll luck out.

Regardless, it is a huge improvement over the Argosy.
HTH

[maineman]

It will play anything I throw at it, including BD mkv conversions and .ISO's, which honestly, are rare for me.

I didn't mean to say that mkv conversions are rare for me...only .ISO

mkv.h264.audiocopy is my preferred profile for BD as well as standard dvd archived content.

Sorry for any confusion

[murffee1]

Thanks Maineman. I haven't made an ISO for over a year but I thought that Argosy played ISO. Anyway, it sounds like AISO is an improvement over Argosy. Can you tell me what brand hard drive you installed and did it work without any issues?
Thanks again.

[Jonatan]

Aios

Well I just got my aios bout month ago from amazon 89.99 I got the old remote
But I'm going to order a for the aios and I Installed a with no problems I love this box

[kelson]

So am I wrong in reading that to mean that each and every BR player BUILT from that date and beyond is required by law to have the cinavia infection?

Yes, you are wrong. There is no law mandating Cinavia. Cinavia is a BDA license requirement. All BD players require a BDA license in order to decrypt and play commercial BD disks -- all players newly licensed after 2/2012 are required to support Cinavia as a term of the license. Unfortunately, the Cinavia blog here is not up to date regarding enabled players.

As for media players, I cast my vote for the WD Live series. I've been using them for years to stream my media all over my house and never had a BD player until my wife bought me one last Christmas -- it kinda collects dust now. I use DVD Fab to rip all my BD's and DVD's to 14TB of network storage spread across 2 NAS units and a Media PC -- the media-PC also records OTA HDTV which I can stream to the WD players. DVD Fab does a great job of allowing me to watch my purchased media the way that I choose to watch my media. Cinavia is a non-factor with regard to media players because they don't require a BDA license -- they only play non-encrypted content.

For those who would like more information about media players, AVS forum has a whole sub-forum devoted to them with threads for individual players. Here is the link for the Media Player forum. I hope the moderators leave this link in. If not, google AVS Forum.

[CBR929]

For those who would like more information about media players, AVS forum has a whole sub-forum devoted to them with threads for individual players. Here is the link for the Media Player forum. I hope the moderators leave this link in. If not, google AVS Forum.

I see nothing wrong with it, as it is not a competitors software or program, but then again I'm not the Boss.
CBR929

[maineman]

Can you tell me what brand hard drive you installed and did it work without any issues?
Thanks again.

For the past 2+ years, I've mostly purchased:

from newegg... great reliablity and performance...no problems at all.
Stay clear of anything with less than 4 eggs

Honestly, in the last 15+ years, I've only had 1 hdd die on me and that was due to a lightning strike back in 2001.
Took out the motherboard and even fried the electric fuel pump in my Volvo which was parked in the garage...

But for sure, some makes have slipped in quality control.

Thankfully, the prices are finally starting to normalize after last year's flooding in Thailand.
The F4's were just $99, US, with free shipping (like right now)
Not $72 like the last 2 years, but not too bad.
They still might be available at $99 with a promo code, but if not, they will be soon

Glad to help

[Jonatan]

maineman

Thankfully, the prices are finally starting to normalize after last year's flooding in Thailand.
The F4's were just $99, US, with free shipping (like right now)

What the heck just bought mine for 120. 2-3 weeks ago now 99 guess I need to order another one