It's worth mentioning at the very least that this thing does not *require* wireless; it does have a wired connection; meaning that you don't have to suck up insane amounts of wireless bandwidth with all that HD video.
It also may take the title of the first non-pc standalone device sold to actually play the only HD disc-based content actually available at this point: WMVHD.
Noticably absent however is its ability to play HD MPEG2 streams, listing a 15Mbps cap on MPEG2 video. This is kind of unfortunate since most PC-based capture solutions or other HD recording solutions save the direct transport stream which is normally somewhere between 18 and 26Mbps for 720p and 1080i content.
Also unfortunate is the low 30fps maximum of most formats it decodes. While not currently that common for broadcast video, 50 and 60fps material is not entirely an unreasonable format especially if it's material preprocessed from 60i to 60p.
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It's worth mentioning at the very least that this thing does not *require* wireless; it does have a wired connection; meaning that you don't have to suck up insane amounts of wireless bandwidth with all that HD video.
It also may take the title of the first non-pc standalone device sold to actually play the only HD disc-based content actually available at this point: WMVHD.
Noticably absent however is its ability to play HD MPEG2 streams, listing a 15Mbps cap on MPEG2 video. This is kind of unfortunate since most PC-based capture solutions or other HD recording solutions save the direct transport stream which is normally somewhere between 18 and 26Mbps for 720p and 1080i content.
Also unfortunate is the low 30fps maximum of most formats it decodes. While not currently that common for broadcast video, 50 and 60fps material is not entirely an unreasonable format especially if it's material preprocessed from 60i to 60p.