It’s been some time since Sony had a tablet on the market. The Sony Tablet S is truly an optimized tablet that’s responsive and intuitive with a vibrant TruBlack display–its comfortable design fits perfectly in the palm of your hands. Though Late to the game against the iPad, the Tablet S’tardiness does not undermined its potential.

Sony hasn’t strayed too far from the Honeycomb herd with the Tablet S’ core specifications. Powered by NVIDIA’s dual-core Tegra 2 paired with 1GB of RAM, its dimensions are kept compact thanks to a slightly smaller than usual 9.4-inch capacitive touchscreen. This still runs at 1280 x 800, like 10.1-inch Honeycomb slates, so the only real difference is a slightly higher pixel density. The display overall is a success, with wide viewing angles and solid contrast, though as is often the case it’s highly reflective and a fingerprint magnet. With the built-in universal IR remote, you can control the living room or choose to share, view and transfer personal video, photos and music and more to your DLNA compatible PC, TV or speakers. As you see, this Android Tablet is a pretty good Multimedia Player.

However, nothing is perfect, the Tablet S also has some common shortcomings of Android Tablets. For instance, it can’t be connected to external drive, that’s to say, we can’t directly played our Blu-ray and DVD movies on Sony Tablet S. In addition, it only supports limited video and audio formats. High definition videos in MKV, VOB, MOV, Camera AVCHD, M2TS etc. format can’t be playback well or playback 1080p HD (such as TiVo recording tv shows/movies) is a blue moon. The following article will give you some solutions. Specifically speaking, With third-party tools to solve these problems.

For DVDs, you should use the DVD to Tablet S converter to rip and convert DVD movies to Tablet S playable video formats. Here I recommend you h.264 mp4, this format is friendly with almost all the android devices. If you have DVD ISO or IFO image files, you can also import it into this tool to deal with for Tablet S. Then you can set bitrate, sample rate, size etc. But you should know, higher quality with a bigger size.

For Blu-ray discs, just use the Blu-ray to Tablet S ripper to convert Blu-ray videos for Sony Tablet S. This tool can help you handle Blu-ray and DVD movies quite well, but it’s a little more expensive. If you have many Blu-ray and DVD discs, it’s a good choice. (Guide: Down convert 1080p Blu-ray movie to Sony Tablet S for playback and streaming)

For common 1080p/720p HD videos in MKV, TiVo, VOB, MOV, AVI, M4V etc, just try the Tablet S Video Converter. The program supports a wide range of video formats, such as TiVo, VP6, MXF, VRO, MTS, M2TS, AVI, WMV, MKV, FLV, VOB, MVI, EVO, MOV, MPG, TOD and more. (All the videos mentioned is un-protected. For protected videos e.g. iTunes M4V videos and Amazon WMV videos, try iTunes to Sony Tablet S Converter – Pavtube ChewTune or something else)

Recommended settings for Sony Tablet S:

Video
Codec: H.264
Size: 1280*720pix Or 1280*800
Bitrate: 1200~4000kbps
Frame rate: 24/ 30 fps
Audio
Codec: aac
Sample rate: 32000~48000hz
Bitrate: 64000~160000bps
Channels: 2

Set smaller bit rate to reduce file size, bigger bit rate and frame rate to get better image quality. To get best/optimized settings for Tablet S, you can choose MP4 as output and set the Size (pix) as 1280×720, bitrate as 2250 kbps, and frame rate as 30 fps. This makes you to get HD quality on Tablet S.

Choose the required tools for your demands. All the tools mentioned above is professional and easy to use. And there are many guides for you to follow. They can enrich your movie enjoyment on Sony Tablet S.

After transferring and putting movies to Tablet S, you can play movies on Sony Tablet S at ease.

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