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2011 Bravia Firmware Bug (Wireless access via hidden SSID failing)

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 09:03:26 GMT

Am running latest firmware, and had to re-enter all my network settings again, but can confirm it's now working.

Dean

dlna filetype support for bdv-e380

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 14:36:55 GMT

The product page (and I guess the manual) for the BDV-E380 lists the following handled media types:

Xvid HD 1080	YES
mkv Playback	YES
MPEG-4 AVC (.mkv, .mp4, .m4v, .m2ts, .mts)	YES
MP3	YES (BD, DVD, CD, USB, DLNA)
AAC (.m4a)	YES (BD, DVD, CD, USB, DLNA)
WMA9 Standard (.wma)	YES (BD, DVD, CD, USB, DLNA)
LPCM (.wav)	YES (BD, DVD, CD, USB, DLNA)
GIF (.gif)	YES (BD, DVD, CD, USB, DLNA)
PNG (.png)	YES (BD, DVD, CD, USB, DLNA)

For many of the file formats listed, it's going to be more down to whether the NAS supports them. For instance, my NAS (Buffalo Linkstation Mini) runs Twonky Media Server on it natively, and that cannot support MKV files.

Have a look at the manual (or product page on the web) for your NAS drive to determine what it can deal with.

Cheers,

Dean

Whats the best way to configure my system

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 14:31:41 GMT

Ahoy,

I think the guy you spoke to at the Sony Center is mistaken.. neither the TV or your BDVE380 support the HDMI audio return channel, so if you plug your devices into the TV, you won't get audio piped back from HDMI port 1 back to your AV receiver (this functionality is on the new HX923 range). Although the TV does have an optical out, as far as I'm aware this is just going to be pushing stereo audio out (the manual confirms this, but for some reason the "technical specs" area of your TV on www.sony.co.uk descrive 5.1 channel output from it - but I think that might be an error) - so anyway it won't route the Dolby Digital/DTS signals you might get back from your SkyHD/PS3/360. Could be useful for the Wii though, as explained below.

My suggestion would be to do the following:

Plug your SkyHD into your BDVE380.

Plug your PS3/360 into an HDMI switch (they're pretty cheap now.. some even come with remote controls), plugging the output of that into your BDVE380 (so you'll need to switch between PS3/360 - but it's not like you're going to have them both on at the same time anyway).

Plug your Wii into the TV via SCART - and use an optical cable to get a feed containing the Wii's stereo audio out of the TV, plugging back into the BDVE380.

Finally, connect up the BDVE380 to an HDMI input on your TV..

If you're not bothered about SkyHD broadcasts in Dolby Digital (ie: Sky Movies HD, Sports HD, Sky One HD, Sky Atlantic HD etc), then by all means connect up both the PS3 and 360 to the two HDMI inputs on your BDVE380, and plug your SkyHD box into the TV directly using one of the other HDMI inputs. It's down to you..

Hope this helps,

Dean

2011 Bravia Firmware Bug (Wireless access via hidden SSID failing)

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:40:36 GMT

Hi Thalamus,

I've tried using WPS while the SSID is hidden, but this also fails to connect to the router. As a test, I've tried WPS while the SSID is broadcast, and the router/TV connect without any issue. Turn off SSID broadcasting again, and the established connection/entry for my network then fails as described previously.

Regards,

Dean

2011 Bravia Firmware Bug (Wireless access via hidden SSID failing)

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:14:23 GMT

Hi Thalamus,

My router is a Netgear WNR3500v1.

Not entirely sure why you need the SSID? Rather than post it here, I'll say that my SSID is just 9 normal upper & lower case characters, no spaces or other punctuation - so it's not going to be anything due to illegal characters on entry. And note that as mentioned in my original report, the SSID is accepted without trouble when the router is configured to broadcast it.

Regards,

Dean

2011 Bravia Firmware Bug (Wireless access via hidden SSID failing)

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:16:24 GMT

I guess this is directed to Sony support staff on this forum.

I'm running a new Bravia KDL-46HX923 with the 17/06/2011 PKG3.235EUA firmware release. Attempts to join a hidden wireless network (ie: one where the SSID is not broadcast) by doing a scan and entering the SSID manually result in an inability to connect to the wireless network.

Changing the router configuration to broadcast an SSID, then selecting the network from the visible list (using the same password) results in a wireless connection succeeding.

Once a connection has been made, any attempt to 're-hide' the SSID (ie: stop broadcasting it) results in network connectivity being lost.

I would appreciate it if you could please report this issue to those responsible for firmware development, with a view to enabling a fix in a future firmware release. Failing that, feel free to PM me any contact details and I'll attempt to provide the engineers additional information via internal email (I work for SCEE).

Regards,

Dean

p.s. Other people with 2011 Bravia sets are also reporting the same problem. For example, take this guy in Australia with a CX520 - http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1674885. Also, see reviews of the HX820 on Amazon.com at http://www.amazon.com/Sony-BRAVIA-KDL55HX820-55-Inch-Built/product-reviews/B004QXFI04 (the review from 'G.Cacciatore').