i dont like this. i always use my ps3 to watch the show and with subtitles. it is very easy to add
subtitles to avi. if i wanted quality i would download a hd rip. even my tv plays avi and not mp4!
hey norguy, why are you even reading these posts if your happy with the change? go away and watch
your mp4's and stop upsetting yourself, oh and it may help not to read every episode thread, and
bitch about it, have a nice gay
i have a $65 lg bluray machine with a usb port that plays virtually every format you
can think of
(avi, mpg, mp4, mkv, and a lot more). when shopping for my current player, i found 8 or 9 players
under $100 that all supported mp4, and about half of them had a usb port.
so in short, i call bullshit. you have this thing called the internet. you can search for things on
it. heck, i bet even the biggest dumbass can buy a mp4 compatible player under $100 and have it
delivered to your home.
but then there would be no reason to bitch on the internet about things you obviously haven't
researched, would there?
once again you guys are missing the point. sure we can find hardware that can play them, but not
everyone has the disposable income to do so, especially when their current hardware plays the xvid
avi's perfectly. why should people be forced to buy something new? $100 to some people is a lot of
money that they simply can't waste on a piece of hardware to play mp4's. there is a recession going
on you know, and there are a lot of people out of work, or stuck in very low paying jobs barely able
to put a roof over their heads and food on the table. you need to get your head out of your rectum
and think a little bit before posting bullcrap like that. it's obvious you haven't done any
research into the economy lately. maybe you should spend a little less time on the internet and
spend a little more time in the real world to see how things really are.
and for the moron who said get a cable to connect your computer to your tv, that doesn't work in
every case. there are a lot of people with computers that work perfectly fine that don't have tv
out to connect to some tv's and there are a lot of tv's that don't have vga inputs making it
essentially impossible to connect them with a cheap or simple cable. it requires additional
hardware at an additional cost to be able to do it, and not everyone has the disposable funds to
afford it.
that's why there are so many people upset that eztv has abandoned them by only posting the mp4's
instead of both, forcing them to search for the xvids elsewhere. if the mp4's work for you, fine.
just don't be such an infantile egomaniac and insist everyone throw all of their existing hardware
in the recycling bin and buy all new hardware to play the mp4's. that's simply moronic.
and finally, all too many of the mp4's are ending up as large, if not larger than the xvids anyway,
and with no discernible difference in quality on average sized screens so what the heck is so great
about them? i could see all the fuss if they were substantially better quality or a third the size
of the xvid's, but for the most part they aren't.
yes, there is a recession going on...but in this particular case i'm discussing this topic among
people with internet access, a computer, no cable bill since they're downloading everything, and
equipment fairly new if it plays avis (we're not talking 8 year old dvd players here).
the working poor can't afford that, so i doubt that's who i'm conversing with.
hd video means not using avi format. avi is great for sd but i do prefer the mp4 format as the
compression is better. if you don't like mp4 make your own avi's for the people who want them
instead of bitching about it.
anyone having trouble playing any files on xbox or ps3 grab tversity media sever, it'll transcode
shit on the fly so your high quality mp4s will play on your consoles, i'm pretty sure this works on
network enabled blu-ray/dvd players as well. enjoy your new found compatibility without converting
manually.