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I'll chime in and say our WDTV Streaming Media Player has been pretty good. Wifi, Ethernet connections, can see our NAS and our PC's, has a Youtube player etc. We have the more expensive version, which in hindsight wasn't the best move as the cheaper model has been hacked to run alternative firmware...

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FYI, YARDWiz Mac works just fine on Mountain Lion. I've downloaded a test file, done a few conversions from TVWiz format to TS, seems ok.

Well done Luke and thanks for the heads up!

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I did edit them on the BW but only top and tail, in hopes of making the transfers smaller. No worries I will try YARDWiz first and give you feedback.

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Awesome Luke, thank you. I will post feedback for you as to whether YARDWiz works on Mountain Lion as well.

I note that earlier in this thread it was posted that the files can just be concatenated and then renamed to TS so will try that too.

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Hi Luke, I didn't realise there was a Mac version, I will definitely give that a try.

I transferred the recordings that I wanted last night by initiating the copy process from the BW to my NAS, but it has created folders for each one containing TVWIZ files.

Is there a way to convert those to TS?

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Hi all, hope I'm not hijacking this thread (but it's certainly an old one!).

Is WizMac being actively developed still? Would there be any chance of an updated version that will run on OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)?

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Hmmm, these days the TARDIS seems to go exactly where she's told, which is one of my beefs with the current reincarnation. Gully I too have just bought a WDTV Live SMP and had similar beefs. I've found 3 or 4 files that won't play - a couple of MT2S files and an MP4. But other files of the same type...

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Just a thought, could it be a dynamic channel management issue - a mux change or something and the timer for a temporarily-missing channel gets lost? Just putting the idea out there, I have DCM turned off as we have marginal signal and I've always been suspicious of it. EDIT: Yeah what Ian said. :-)

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Netmask I know!! It works fine when powered on, it's the passthrough that's got me confused. And yeah, the passthrough did work with the Yamaha. I am considering just trying some different HDMI cables, I must have a couple more in my mystery bag of tricks. Am sure the two that I'm currently using ar...

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I don't see how the TV connected by component to the BW can play sound if the audio path is optical digital through the amp, and the amp is switched off? Anyway, I looked at the specs of the TX-SR309 and it features "Audio Return Channel". I'd be trying to make sure that feature is OFF in...

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Ok so I have narrowed it down a bit. If I set the BW audio format to 'Passthrough', I get no audio from the TV speakers when the amp is off. If I set it to '2ch', I get audio from the TV speakers when the amp is off. This is less than desirable as I would then be feeding the amp (when it's on) with ...

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netmask wrote:I have a set of component cables you can use and should be a tad better than composite.

Eww, I meant component, yuk, composite, no way....

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I already have in back of mind that I'll just connect the BW via composite direct to the TV or something as a workaround, but I will post details tonight.

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Well I went ahead and purchased and it's all working quite well with one caveat. I cannot for the life of me get the audio to work in HDMI pass through mode. I swear it worked during initial setup of the amp but I can't get it to work now. Video's fine but no sound. Have even done a factory reset on...

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I was going to suggest clearing cookies but I thought you might not like to have to log back into other sites as well. Do you update BW forums while out and about, or just from the couch?

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I had trouble with another website and I had to go to "Settings/Safari/Accept Cookies/From Visited" (from memory that was the setting I had to change) on my iPhone to make it work.

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IanSav wrote:Hi,

Particularly if the 62 speakers are all subwoofers and the .2 are for the standard left and right channels.

Regards,
Ian.

That sounds like Greater Union at Burwood.

baobab68

What's the ".2" for? 2 Subwoofers?

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Thank you. I'll have a look but I might end up risking the Onkyo, I can always return it if it doesn't work well.

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Whilst I do like that one, JB Hifi and I have..."history"...and the Onkyo has a iPod / iPhone input, which I really like the idea of....

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Hi all Am considering the purchase of an Onkyo TX-SR309 amplifier. Having seen a couple of threads on here about Onkyo issues with the BW and with some TV's I thought I would ask if anyone has any experience of this model and its reliability. Anyone have any thoughts? http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/...

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My Yamaha worked fine in the configuration being described, with no special attention at all, until it blew up a week after purchase (see other thread).

Have you tried a different HDMI cable? In case it's not passing something that it needs to?

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I just recently bought a new Yamaha amplifier. (A week ago) Had it all cabled up, sounding really great. Last night it abruptly switched off and can't be turned back on. It has a red light near the power switch but that's it. I disconnected it from power for 10 minutes, turned back on, nada. Also di...

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I wonder if there is a governing body for HDMI, at whose website there might be a list of certified devices?

You could trawl http://www.hdmi.org/ or http://www.hdmiforum.org/ and see what you can find perhaps.

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Aaah, *now* I remember why I stopped hanging out on this forum...

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Hmm, my DP-Lite has had a motherboard replacement and a PSU replacement and is now out of warranty. My friend bought a DP-Lite on my recommendation and hers has died out of warranty and she has replaced it with another brand. You may not get many takers. I appreciated the in-warranty repairs but the...

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Hey! It echoes in here, echoes in here, in here, in here!

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For me you need to have "Twin digital tuners" and "Quad recording" or else I can't answer the poll.

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Kingo, in my opinion, because it's very similar to what mine was doing, it's a hardware problem. I had mine for about 11 months before the hard drive failed, then got a hard drive replacement which failed after a week. At that point BW replaced the entire unit, which has been going well so far. To m...

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"No one will ever need more than 640K of RAM" (or 12 recordings)

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If it had tuners in it, I would buy one.

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But still, what were the odds!!

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Played a bunch of other mkv files which were all perfect. Re-encoded the problem file to m4v with Handbrake, and that played fine. Conclusion: false alarm. New machine ok!

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It was the coincidence that made me wonder - new box, first file of that type that I'm unable to play...hmmm... I will try a known good file over the weekend. And I will ask netmask to try this file on his BW.

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Returned my unit to BW HQ at Ingleburn today. Nasa the technician (I think that is his name) gave me a whole new unit. Now, on the new unit, I've tried to play a 720P MKV file, which has been fine before, but this one won't play correctly. The video plays fine but the audio plays really fast and out...

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I've been very happy with the functions and stability of the unit, but I could do without repeated visits to the BW office. I rang them this morning and will go out there tomorrow am. Let's hope it all gets sorted out then.

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Thanks Ian. That's what I thought too. I'll ring them Monday. Couple more notes: the empty guide was my fault. I had not plugged in the network cable properly so the time was not set. And lastly, I've just rebooted the unit one more time. No hdd at all now, and on latest reboot, we have a flashing r...

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Well, it looks like the story might be a continuing one. Yesterday while watching a file from the contents folder (one of the recordings saved from the previous hard drive, in TS format) the unit locked up, after a few sudden seconds of choppy playback. I tried to power down semi-gracefully with a l...

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I think I did exactly that, when I returned my Toppy 2460 and got a BW! The files played ok for me, they were .TS format, but I can't recall if I did any conversion or not.

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What does the tongue-in-cheek warranty say?

Thanks for setting me straight on that one prl!

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When I first moved from my 5000 Toppy to the BW, it felt like a step backwards in terms of functionality and hackability, however, I've now come to appreciate its stability and reliability and realised that I actually bought the PVR to watch telly rather than play with INI files. Having said that, I...

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IanSav wrote:I have over 10 servers to enumerate

Good lord! Are you running a cinema?

Edited by a mod to correct the quote attribution.

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Just some feedback to close off this thread. I did manage to copy almost all of my recordings off, except a couple which I think never made it onto the disk properly before it had begin to fail. I took the whole unit to BW at Ingleburn, described the problem and they took it out t' back and put in a...

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Thanks, I'll call them and see how I go. I'll post back.

All looking good so far with copying the recordings off.

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Warkus - yep you are right, that one flash by itself is only one second after all, so error 0001. Fortunately, BW HQ is only 37 minutes away (Google Maps-wise) Ian - touch wood, I have managed to boot it and have the drive visible, so will try copying my recordings off overnight, fingers crossed. Fi...

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Hi all Got a bit of a problem with our DPLite-i. Feels like a dead/dying hdd... This morning when I turned it on, it wanted to do a HDD repair, which I duly let it do. Tonight we went to play back an earlier recording and found that it wanted to play it at double speed, or skipped and chirped while ...

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Now I'm intrigued. ICE TV always seemed to me an unnecessary complication. If you're comparing it's usefulness to be on a par with that of the PVR itself, may a 3 month trial is worth it. What are the things you find most useful Paul55? I've occasionally wanted to recored a show when I'm out and for...

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XBMC is pretty good...only used it on the original XBOX but it was dead stable and rather pretty...

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Now who's speculating about Android Ian!! It's just a Linux variant, I heard someone say recently...

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