I see that this will play various formats, such as mkv and mov, through the wi-fi connection. Does anybody know if it will play such files if they are burned to a Blu-Ray disk, and the disk placed in the Blu-Ray player of the unit? I see that this will play various formats, such as mkv and mov, through the wi-fi connection. Does anybody know if it will play such files if they are burned to a Blu-Ray disk, and the disk placed... » Read More I see that this will play various formats, such as mkv and mov, through the wi-fi connection. Does anybody know if it will play such files if they are burned to a Blu-Ray disk, and the disk placed in the Blu-Ray player of the unit? « Show Less
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I believe it will. I backup a lot of my kids movies and have not found any problems watching them on any of the different formats I have done
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All I can say, B.R., is that ours is streaming beautifully via our home WiFi network so, I don't see why not.Via USB stick...it plays .mp4s perfectly. I haven't tried any of the other formats.The wife and I are very happy with it. :-)
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No, I did add a add-on Wi-Fi device but could not navigate back to my computer to play movies from there. I had to settle for putting movie files on a USB drive and play them from there. It wouldn't recognize some AVI and MKV files so after a while I got rid of the C5500 and got a newer Sony unit. Sorry I couldn't give any good news. Good luck with your research.
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It will play pretty much any type of media disc, including 3D Blu-ray.If you want to write data to a disc, here are the supported formats:Blu-ray: BD-R, BD-R DL, BD-R LTH, BD-RE, BD-RE DLDVD: DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-R DL, DVD+R DL, DVD+RW, DVD-RWCD: CD-R, CD-RW
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Did you ever find out if it would play PAL format DVDs? I wonder it as well, i have one and i want to buy something on PAL format but i am afraid that once i buy it the player will not play them. Anyone know?
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I think if it's not a HD player it wont read it. At least that's what the manual says, and other threads that I've read. That goes for DVD's too. If it's not a HD player it won't read it and won't play it. I believe that this unit isn't HD.
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yes, bd-rom does play blu-ray. i had 2 bought at different times so not sure if this one had the software for the codac to playblu-ray. its setup to do that but u might need to buy the cyberlink powerdvd 13 which gives u the proper info to make your player do the blu-ray properly. I found out that i needed it for one of the bd-rom players! one had the software enclosed, one didnt.This is good drive, All BD-roms blu-ray ready. I have no trouble with drive now and bought the newer cyberlink-pwrdvd13 when found out the 12 did not allow my blu-ray to work decoding the info on blu-ray discs. Now all is fine! yes, bd-rom does play blu-ray. i had 2 bought at different times so not sure if this one had the software for the codac to playblu-ray. its setup to do that but u might need to buy the cyberlink powerdvd 13 which gives u the proper info to make your player do the blu-ray properly. I found out that i needed it for one of the bd-rom players! one had the software enclosed, one didnt.This is good drive, All BD-roms blu-ray ready. I have no trouble with drive now and bought the newer cyberlink-pwrdvd13 when found out the 12 did not allow my blu-ray to work decoding the info on blu-ray... » Read More yes, bd-rom does play blu-ray. i had 2 bought at different times so not sure if this one had the software for the codac to playblu-ray. its setup to do that but u might need to buy the cyberlink powerdvd 13 which gives u the proper info to make your player do the blu-ray properly. I found out that i needed it for one of the bd-rom players! one had the software enclosed, one didnt.This is good drive, All BD-roms blu-ray ready. I have no trouble with drive now and bought the newer cyberlink-pwrdvd13 when found out the 12 did not allow my blu-ray to work decoding the info on blu-ray discs. Now all is fine! « Show Less
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I play mine on a sony Blu-ray/DVD player. It plays both DVDs and Blu-ray discs and have had no problems.
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There no disc drive at all, so no it does not play blu-ray. I have an external DVD-RW drive that I use if I need to burn a disc.
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I have not had any problem playing in any format . USB, SD card etc. Again, for the money, This is a very good unit., David.
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When I first got my tv, I remember playing video files with it via a usb key. The last time I tried, it did not appear to work, and I recall recreating the files using handbrake or something in different formats, and was never able to make it work. I think I was about to unplug everything else and retry it when I gave up and put it on disk and played it through the blu-ray player. This is the link for my particular tv , which displays a list of the supported video formats. http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/UM/201104/20110427083150372/BN68-01691A-02Eng-110427.pdf I took a snap shot, but apparently can't paste or attach via this communication mode. ( sorry ) there were some avi modes listed. When I first got my tv, I remember playing video files with it via a usb key. The last time I tried, it did not appear to work, and I recall recreating the files using handbrake or something in different formats, and was never able to make it work. I think I was about to unplug everything else and retry it when I gave up and put it on disk and played it through the blu-ray player. This is the link for my particular tv , which displays a list of the supported video formats. http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/UM/201104/20110427083150372/BN68-01691A-02Eng-110427.pdf I took a... » Read More When I first got my tv, I remember playing video files with it via a usb key. The last time I tried, it did not appear to work, and I recall recreating the files using handbrake or something in different formats, and was never able to make it work. I think I was about to unplug everything else and retry it when I gave up and put it on disk and played it through the blu-ray player. This is the link for my particular tv , which displays a list of the supported video formats. http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/UM/201104/20110427083150372/BN68-01691A-02Eng-110427.pdf I took a snap shot, but apparently can't paste or attach via this communication mode. ( sorry ) there were some avi modes listed. « Show Less
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Yes, I have used DVD and Blu-ray ISOs. I also saw some stuttering using wireless but I connected a network cable to it and it not streams flawlessly. To stream Blu-ray you will have to either copy it locally to an attached hard drive or have a wired network connection.
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ITunes stores these as M4V files (movies) - how do you use the wifi to play them on your ipad? Can this alone let you stream movies or do you need another software to stream or do you have to convert out of the MPEG-4 Video File (.m4v) format to another to stream movies?I think some people are buying these to expand the otherwise fixed memory of an ipad so if you can't stream this is not going to work for us.
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James does it play whatever format source is on homemade DVD's...like say that comes from mkv or other file sources. Thanks
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Thanks. I've done all that with no results. My last resort is to test the player with a few other Blu-Ray discs. If they play with no problem, I'll return this set to Amazon and ask for another one.
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This unit is not a Blu-ray player, if you are trying to play a Blu-ray DVD than that is the problem. This unit will play conventional DVDs, all I did was inserted a DVD into the player and it launched Windows media player, I'm sure you can use any media player that you want to use that will play DVDs. If nothing else you can go to the windows menu and click on my-computer and find the icon that represents the player and double-click on it and you should get a menu of possible programs to open the player and click on one of those, one should be Windows media player and any other media player that you have. But it will not play Blu-ray DVDs. This unit is not a Blu-ray player, if you are trying to play a Blu-ray DVD than that is the problem. This unit will play conventional DVDs, all I did was inserted a DVD into the player and it launched Windows media player, I'm sure you can use any media player that you want to use that will play DVDs. If nothing else you can go to the windows menu and click on my-computer and find the icon that represents the player and double-click on it and you should get a menu of possible programs to open the player and click on one of those, one should be Windows media player and any other media player... » Read More This unit is not a Blu-ray player, if you are trying to play a Blu-ray DVD than that is the problem. This unit will play conventional DVDs, all I did was inserted a DVD into the player and it launched Windows media player, I'm sure you can use any media player that you want to use that will play DVDs. If nothing else you can go to the windows menu and click on my-computer and find the icon that represents the player and double-click on it and you should get a menu of possible programs to open the player and click on one of those, one should be Windows media player and any other media player that you have. But it will not play Blu-ray DVDs. « Show Less
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A better question is what format will it not play. I have been able to play divx 4.x and 5.x,asi .mp4,vob,mov and .mkv 4:3&16:9 video files off of a usb on it. This is very nice if you have a lot of personal video files that you want to watch on your tv without having to do extra work converting and burning the video files to disc. I use a 1 tb external drive for storage(to play) and I have an external WD 2.5 500gb for recording with no problems. Be sure to download and install the update software first thing. Also if you are going to record from it be sure and format the drive to ntfs or you will have multiple files for each recording.(unless that is what you want)