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  1. Anybody have one of these players or one similar (S33)? If so how do you like it and where did you buy it from?
  2. sorry Barrows, I'm an idiot and new to these boards so I've been screwing up the names. I finally caught on that I'm porky, heh. I read some of that Charlie Hansen HDMI stuff and found that very interesting. Thanks for the tip, I will stay away from HDMI. As it is I am using the analog outs on my blu-ray player into my old school Marantz receiver. Maybe someday I will get a nice Oppo BDP-93 for my disc playing needs. I understand it also has some good networking capabilities too. Back to the music, I was already looking forward to the new Neil Young International Harvesters disc but since that will be a blu-ray release I'm doubly stoked. I like getting formats that give you all the possibilities of playback. I also like these vinyl/digital packages. I suspect a good many of these upcoming Pink Floyd rereleases will be in vinyl/blu-ray combo packs. Let's hope so anyway.
  3. No disrespect taken porky, I understand your point but in the case of blu-ray audio I'm not so sure it falls strictly in the category of old-fashioned disc spinning. For starters you have HDMI out on the player, you have some players with extensive wi-fi capabilities, and most players take all old fashioned discs such as CD, DVD, SACD which many folks keep around in addition to their strictly digital files. A good networked blu-ray player may eventually become the ultimate stereo component. Another reason the computer-centric audiophile might also be happy about Blu-Ray audio is that in the case of Tom Petty's MOJO, a FLAC (24 bit 48K) and Apple Lossless (16 bit 44.1K) download of the album is included so you don't have to rip it. I'm not sure how the downloads would compare to a blu-ray rip, but I think it's worth getting excited about whether you are an analog curmudgeon as I often am, or a digital denizen as I sometimes aspire to be. http://warnerbrosrecordsstore.com/redeemwbr/redeem.aspx?promocode=tompetty2010&b3ForceLinks=1
  4. I'm not sure about Moving Pictures since I don't have it, but I can tell you that Tom Petty's MOJO on Blu-Ray is gorgeous. I can't understand why the topic of Blu-Ray audio is not more discussed on this site. Maybe because the industry is only getting around to the topic themselves, but I don't see what's so exciting about buying all this expensive equipment on which to play inferior digital audio. Either stay in an analog environment or acquire hi-res digital. That said, not only is Blu-Ray a great format for the audio consumer, but it's also great for the artist and possibly the record industry itself. I think the industry will be moving in this direction in the next year and hopefully we will see more discussion on this site of desirable audio blu-ray players and system configurations. Check out this note from Neil Young on the subject from today. http://www.neilyoung.com/messagepage.html
  5. my bad Paul. the way the text broke on the post I read it as "Zone Player for $100" which I thought refereed to Sonos Zone Player. Indeed Apple TV is very easy to set up as a music server with iTunes. This is great if you want to access your entire digital library. The only problem that occurs is when you are trying to get the audio into your analog receiver with Apple TV's toslink audio output. I have yet to find a great solution for this. All the DAC solutions are either too expensive or not very elegant. Seems to me if you are going to use Apple TV then you would be best served by hooking it up to a digital receiver with HDMI or toslink input, and keep analog audio on analog systems. I realize this is one of the primary concerns of this entire website/forum but I am so far not happy about any solution that mixes digital and analog except maybe a CD or DVD component into an analog receiver. Am I wrong?
  6. I concur on the Apple TV endorsement, but I'm wondering which Zone Player you are talking about here. I can't find any such for $100.
  7. I have a lot of CDs and a lot of music on an external hard drive. I recently picked up a Blu-Ray player (Sony BDP-580) with built in wifi hoping this may be an all in one solution. Let me just get my excitement out of the way by saying that I picked up Tom Petty's MOJO on audio blu-ray and it sounds phenomenal!! I'm surprised I haven't heard much on these forums about the virtues of music on blu-ray. Anyhow, that's all beside the point because that's the part that worked out wonderfully. I was able to turn my mac mini into a server with PS3 Media Server software but I still could not get my external hard drive to be recognized. I moved a sample file around and it seems this particular player can scarcely handle any audio file formats, though it claims it can handle m4a among others in the manual. It also struggles with the web browser and does not connect with Rhapsody in any fashion. In short, my digital server dreams were quickly doused with cold water, even though my CD and blu-ray audio needs are well served. So I'm thinking of returning this blu-ray player for a different model. Anybody know of another wifi ready blu-ray that can handle m4a and maybe Rhapsody?
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