No, I had my doubts but seeing that my computer didn't like the computer version blu-ray drive I didn't have much choice

It also plays many media files on a USB drive, which means a flash drive or USB hard drive

Fortunately, after some research on the 'net, the problem with the USB Hard Drive was solved

The unit plays BluRay discs okay, but I mainly bought it to play AVI video from an external USB hard drive

This Blu-Ray player does exactly what I want it to do: play blu-rays and play back 1080p MKV files on an NTFS-formatted hard drive.

I expect that the vast majority of purchasers of this player do not have the technical know-how to diagnose the error message or re-format a large hard drive from NTFS to FAT-32

(for instance, the BDP-S185 *will* play Cinavia-protected .m2ts files on an external hard drive, but the PS3 won't.) and the BDP-S185 is a lot quieter than the PS3, too.no wireless internet isn't much of a drag to me since i don't really like streaming movies over the internet; connecting the ethernet cable for an occasional software update is

Be carefulif you are playing movies off of a hard drive though

The drive is quiet, the remote is compact

Now who needs a computer or hard drive

I all ready had a combination VHS Blue Ray, but had found myself using mainly the DVD/BD secton of it.