It is country-specific regarding standards compliance & feature set. Yeah, I don't understand a brain-dead mentality (oxymoron) that can't just press 2 buttons to get things to work. The less devices which support DTS the more likely people will use AAC and the more likely CE Industry Standard devices will support it too. CE industry standard or not, good riddance. Recently the media player I have installed on my Android phone dropped DTS support due to licensing issues.

I generally use my PC as a media player so I've not thought about 'standards' in a long time, especially as I've not bought a device in years without first checking to see if it'll play the files I own, or at least the ones I want it to play, CE industry standard or not. Not unless AVI capable DVD players are a CE industry standard, or the ability for Bluray players to play MKV/MP4 files is a CE industry standard etc. I'm not sure about the CE industry standards thing or if we're just not on the same page there. I've not tested it's abilities much though as it's not my TV. It's the only one which won't play DTS audio in MKV files (DTS support is optional for DivX HD). There's one of them in this house (Sharp TV). On the other hand, and whether you'd class it as a CE industry standard thing or not, DivX HD certified devices should have the same abilities no matter where you are. My only real complaint regarding the Samsung TV (and there's a Samsung Bluray player in the house which is the same) is it doesn't respect MKV/MP4 aspect ratios, whereas the Sony player does. I own a Samsung TV and a Sony Bluray player (pre Cinavia) and both will play pretty much any AVI/MKV/MP4 I throw at them, so in Australia at least, media players in TVs/Bluray players seem quite capable. I don't know if it tends to be country specific as I've read a lot of negative comments regarding TV media players in this forum in respect to their limited abilities. After-all you need to press the button on the glasses to connect them to the TV too. I agree it wasn't too likely the TV's built in media player would be '3D aware' when it comes to MKV files, but it certainly has no problem playing SBS3D correctly, it just requires you to manually press the 3D button on the remote.

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