H.264 on a Sharp - AQUOS Blu-ray Disc Player

[kirklt]

Best Buy is currently advertising the product below:

Sharp - AQUOS Blu-ray Disc Player with 1080p Upconversion

Model: BD-HP20U SKU: 8551596
Plays Blu-ray, BD-R, BD-RE, BD-ROM, DVD, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, MPEG, H.264, VC-1, CD, CD-R and CD-RW formats; built-in Dolby Digital and DTS decoders; HDMI output



When it says H.264, does that mean it will play an *.mp4 file with H2.64 encoding that is burned on a DVD from your computer?

[racer-x]

I doubt it very much, but bring a disk with you and try it out for yourself........... It might play back AVCHD (m2ts) files burned on a data DVD-ROM.............

[Krispy Kritter]

They are referring to the suported HD codecs currently in use H.264 & VC-1. None of the HD players support individual file playback, none that I've seen/read about anyway.

[kirklt]

Best Buy's website says that the Sony BDP-S300 will do the following:

Plays BD-ROM, DVD, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, CD, MP3, JPEG, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4


http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8403514&type=product&id=1180743330749


So when it says MP3 and MPEG-4, is that individual file playback?

[rumplestiltskin]

Please understand that any BluRay or HDDVD player that supports the proper HDMI DRM (and that will be all of them until enough people -don't- buy them) will most likely play nothing that you want unless the disc has the appropriate DRM embedded therein.

You do realize that playing any sort of video that the player believes to be unclean (and by that I mean bereft of the expected DRM) will shut off your TV permanently. But, you might say, surely it wouldn't do this with H264's I've encoded from other media I own? You pay your money and you take your chances.

[jman98]

When it says H.264, does that mean it will play an *.mp4 file with H2.64 encoding that is burned on a DVD from your computer?

No, it does NOT! At present there are no DVD players, BluRay players, or HD-DVD players that support playing H.264 burned to DVD. There are a few media streamers that claim to be able to play these, but I'm sure there are limitations (usually on bit rate), so I'd do a lot of investigating online to be sure one of these players would play my files before I would buy one.