Conceptronic ships Grab 'n GO Full HD media streamer

In the quickly-growing realm of media streamers, there's at least a modicum of a chance that Conceptronic's oddly titled Grab 'n GO Full HD media player has slipped from the forefront of your mind. If so, the outfit is gunning to jar your memory by announcing that it is now shipping said piece to eager consumers. The release also noted that SAMBA and NFS clients have been added, and it's pretty much ready to "stream all digital media files to a TV in Full HD 1080p resolution." Furthermore, you'll find a gigabit Ethernet jack to handle all that data, and the built-in USB port enables external storage to be added locally. Sorry, still no price.

[Thanks, KJ]

[farfisa @ Jun 12th 2008 9:18AM]

It's also the cheapest way to get your digital media files to the moon.

[Joe Maki @ Jun 12th 2008 9:24AM]

Where do they get these form factors

[Fastman @ Jun 12th 2008 9:31AM]

MKV and gigabit! guess I wont be buying Popcorn Hour now..

[bob @ Jun 12th 2008 9:34AM]

but does it do wireless n?

[Eddie W @ Jun 12th 2008 9:35AM]

Samba client? Could that mean this is built on open source? That would certainly make this more appealing on my end.

[Jon @ Jun 12th 2008 9:47AM]

Humm i have a Popcorn hour , id like to see how this one plays out

[Drewe @ Jun 12th 2008 10:00AM]

I wish for more details! I am about to buy a popcorn hour, but...... Soon I will have too much choice...

[ChillyCat @ Jun 12th 2008 10:04AM]

all the details here: http://www.conceptronic.net/site/desktopdefault.aspx?tabindex=0&tabid=200&Cat=60&grp=6020&ar=451&Prod_ID=2423&Prod=CFULLHDMA&subid=550

[Evan @ Jun 12th 2008 12:59PM]

For me the Popcorn Hour is better because the Popcorn Hour can play files from any NAS device with a Samba-share, but it says the GnG (currently) only plays files from other devices that support UPnP.

[Drewe @ Jun 12th 2008 10:05AM]

Great. Go to the site and it has 'where to buy' - you can get one from most European countries, but nowhere in the US of A!

[ChillyCat @ Jun 12th 2008 10:06AM]

http://www.conceptronic.net/site/images/produkten/CFULLHDMA/CFULLHDMA_pdc_60.jpg

[Jeremy @ Jun 12th 2008 10:28AM]

Anyone have an pictures of the GUI interface? Hopefully this isn't the same stale and minimal look that most of these players have had for YEARS now.

[zeroday @ Jun 12th 2008 10:50AM]

geek info found
http://www.aroundmyroom.com/tag/cfullhdma

[Mark @ Jun 12th 2008 12:55PM]

So it uses a Sigma 8635 like the Popcorn Hour, but no internal HD, only one USB port (on the back) and no heatsink on the chip?

[DaLass @ Jun 12th 2008 10:50AM]

Check the manual for GUI pictures. They are there !! :-)

http://download.conceptronic.net/GrabnGo/CFULLHDMA/CFULLHDMA_MAN_ML_v1.0.pdf

[Reseller @ Jun 12th 2008 10:59AM]

Reseller found in the US:

http://www.computersources.biz/c2s_products/c2s_ProdDetailsL1.ASP?ID=3&Type=SUPERSTORE&ref=34772600

[guiganol @ Jun 12th 2008 1:18PM]

I like the gigabit but the popcorn hour really has excellent on-going support (new firmwares close to every month). And the new popcorn hour models out in about a month are looking to have HDMI 1.3 and optical out (http://www.mpcclub.com/dreamline/prodlaunch.html). Doesn't look like they'll do gigabit but since the Conceptronic is using the same Sigma chip, I wonder if they're really able to get that bandwidth out of it.

[Wwhat @ Jun 12th 2008 2:21PM]

I had a bad experience with conceptronic, overheating chip in a dongle, seems it was a design flaw rather than an individual bad apple, it soured me a bit to the company :/

[KyleK @ Jun 13th 2008 2:31PM]

I have their 2-disk NAS (CH3SNAS) for about a year now, and I love it. It's fast, it's stable, and with a little hackery you get full access to the device's Linux system, extending its capabilities a lot.

[Satoru @ Jun 12th 2008 10:03PM]

It looks like a Linux build. They have the source code available on their website.

[TriXX @ Jun 13th 2008 8:13AM]

Al ready in stock in Holland. With a price of € 230,-

http://funprice.nl/c/home-entertainment/mediaspeler/conceptronic

[Moontje @ Jun 17th 2008 6:08AM]

Saw this last week in Belgium in "Media Markt"-stores for 159 €.