Cool. Seems like theres going to be a lot of these pretty soon. Beats Apple's price tag for sure.

This looks nice. Good price tag and good features. Worth checking out IMO

yep looks like very good media player and the price not bad oh side note there 3 different machines with same chip set like allso istarhd and hdx900. but it great word of these players are finally being talked about and going by what i read so far seem tons better then apple tv.

Not bad. Its a decent price too. My only question is can it handle H.264 or WMV in 1080p and output via HDMI? If it can do that, supports MKV and subtitles... thats might be too much to pass up. Especially if it can read NTFS hard drives.

This is everything that alot of other devices should have been.

it can do all of that, but there are some bugs (as with any brand new technology). Check out their forum: http://networkedmediatank.com/

@ atomicxl


Media files supported

* Video containers:
o MPEG1/2/4 Elementary (M1V, M2V, M4V)
o MPEG1/2 PS (M2P, MPG)
o MPEG2 Transport Stream (TS, TP, TRP, M2T, M2TS, MTS)
o VOB
o AVI, ASF, WMV
o Matroska (MKV)
o MOV (H.264), MP4, RMP4
* Video codecs:
o XVID SD/HD
o MPEG-1
o MPEG-2
+ MP@HL
o MPEG-4.2
+ ASP@L5, 720p, 1-point GMC
o WMV9
+ MP@HL
o H.264
+ BP@L3
+ MP@L4.0
+ HP@L4.0
+ HP@L4.1
o VC-1
+ MP@HL
+ AP@L3
* Audio containers:
o AAC, M4A
o MPEG audio (MP1, MP2, MP3, MPA)
o WAV
o WMA
* Audio codecs:
o WMA, WMA Pro
o AAC
o MP1, MP2, MP3
o LPCM
* Audio pass through : DTS, AC3
* Photo formats : JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF
* Other formats: ISO, IFO
* Subtitle formats : SRT, SMI, SUB, SSA

DRM

* Cardea DRM (WMDRM-ND)

Chipset

* Sigma Designs SMP8635

Memory

* 256MB DDR SDRAM, 32MB Flash

Audio/Video outputs

* HDMI v1.1 (up to 1080p)
* Component Video (up to 1080p)
* S-Video
* Composite Video
* Stereo Analog Audio
* S/PDIF Coax Digital Audio

Interface

* 2x USB 2.0 host
* Parallel ATA

Network

* Ethernet 10/100


Funny that it has support for HDMI 1.1 and not the latest. HDMI 1.1 came out four years ago. Yea HDMI is BWC, but you would think they would have the latest and greatest.

Great it streams content

Bad news if you have itunes it won't stream from itunes i just got back from a aperture tour in seattle and they where showing off one of these devices it works great if you are a windows user but if you use itunes your crap out of luck.

And even worse it records to system memory what torrents you have downloaded no offense i dont want a device that records every torrent i have downloaded wow talk about nasty if you are downloading anything from bittorrent that is questionable material and it knows the place you downloaded it from what is goint to stop the device from reporting you to the police mpaa riaa or worse.

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Not bad. Its a decent price too. My only question is can it handle H.264 or WMV in 1080p and output via HDMI? If it can do that, supports MKV and subtitles... thats might be too much to pass up. Especially if it can read NTFS hard drives.

This is everything that alot of other devices should have been.

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Yes, I have one. Only problem I have (and it's a personal one, not anything to do with the device) is I don't have a reciever that accepts DTS audio. So my mkv movies with DTS have no sound. Popcorn hour has SPDIF out that you can use. My friend uses it and can play everything with full audio. On the Popcornhour forums, you can find a converter that will remux to AC3 audio. This program allows you to actually retain the DTS stream and use AC3 as the primary audio stream ( in case you eventually are able to play DTS audio, you can go back and delete the AC3 stream). This works well, and I've been able to convert a lot.

I do not have a HDD installed in it yet, so I have not used the P2P functions. Overall, it's a great buy. Not intuitive at first, but the forums are a godsend. And yes, it handles subtitles well and I'm using my 750GB NTFS USB external drive to stream from.

Yes, but is it going to any good ??

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