Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"As someone who doesn't reside in the USA, I was wondering what would be the best way to get internet for my computer in the US for a couple of weeks? If it were Europe I know I'd look for some prepaid data. Is there anything similar offered by American carriers? A MiFi or a data SIM that I can tether from would work, but I'm trying to maintain a tight budget. Help!"
Any further technical specs available?
I have been looking for a server to manage my DVD library - I have over 1000 DVD’s and would love to know if this is a viable solution for me. I have been looking at the kalidescape system but I’m not ready to spend $51,000 for a solution. This seems like a nice compomise.
Some of the questions that I have are:
01) Did they think through expansion and growth? This only holds 200 DVD’s - will they allow for daisy-chaining or add-on components to the server to accomodate more than 200 DVDs? (Sony missed the boat with their 400 DVD player by limiting the number that can be chained together) and 500gig isn’t much - will there be the ability to expand the HDD?
02) Does the DVD player do any upscaling of the image to 1080p? or will they leave this off so that people purchase blu-ray replacements for their existing movies?
03) What is the user experience like when browsing/searching for movies? Will I be able to search by actor, awards, genre, title, play time, etc? The indicate that they grab meta-data off of the internet for each movie in the player - is the UI easy enough to search based on that data?
04) Streaming Video? Will this eventually allow for the streaming of DVD’s and other video to other devices on the network? It’s great to have a place for all your DVD’s, but you don’t solve the problem of wanting to watch something in a different room than where this device is located. Also, watching multiple programs. The new Receivers allow for 2nd room streaming - will this do that as well?
05) Environmental sound - it looks like a tall tower - I hope that the fans and drives are silent - This deivce has to be near your audio equipment for cable connections - what is the sound level of the internal fans, drives, etc. and will it be distracting since you can’t put it off in a closet someplace.
06) Loading of DVD’s and gathering meta-data: Is this loaded and stored on the internal hard drive? or will will device always go to the internet each time you access a movie?
07) Meta-data management/Configuration management - is this done via a web page from anywhere on the network? will I be able to see if I own a movie from any PC on my netowrk (or externally) when I have them all loaded in the device, or will I have to search for it on the device to determine I own it or not?
Well, those are just a few of my initial questions
Tom.