Neuros LINK web / media viewer gets unboxed

by Darren Murph, posted Dec 4th 2008 at 8:43AM

That floor looks mighty familiar, huh? That's because it is. Just days after Mr. Dave Zatz treated us to an unboxing of the 2Wire-built MediaPoint Blockbuster movie set-top-box, here comes yet another gift from the same den. The recently announced Neuros LINK was said to practically be a full-on computer, with the whole kit weighing some 15-pounds. Initial reports are that Hulu content played back beautifully in full screen, so yeah, that's a thumbs-up. We know why you're really here, though, so give the read link a visit for the gallery of photographs.

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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ZaxCG2 @ Dec 4th 2008 8:50AM

Nice blog about it. Kinda left me short handed because he didn't really go into depth of how the picture looked/etc. But sounds like a good little machine to have if you're willing to put down $300.

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Dave Zatz @ Dec 4th 2008 9:40AM

Well I've only had it a few hours. I'll have more thoughts on quality in the future (and maybe a video), although Hulu resolution isn't very good - which isn't Neuros' fault. The box is capable of 1080 content. Also worth noting this is still an 'alpha' product so there's plenty of room for improvement. :)

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ZaxCG2 @ Dec 4th 2008 10:28AM

Oh! Right from the mouth of the author!
Heh, yeah I noticed you said you had more to come about it. Thanks!

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Flashpoint @ Dec 4th 2008 9:09AM

Can the PS3 or the Wii playback Hulu, Pornotube and Veoh?

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Evan @ Dec 4th 2008 9:30AM

That looks like a WebTV box from 1998. Didn't that fail horribly?

"WebTV Classic, which was introduced in 1996, is an easy, affordable way to search the Internet and send and receive email using a television."

How soon people forget and repeat mistakes of the past.

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J @ Dec 4th 2008 9:42AM

@Evan:
The difference today is that there is good stuff to watch on the Internet. There was nothing of the sort back in the WebTV days.

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Rob @ Dec 15th 2008 1:52PM

I don't know. Ask Microsoft, they'd certainly have an answer about WebTV.

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Flashpoint @ Dec 4th 2008 11:15AM

Web TV failed because it wasn't useful for much more than browsing "some" webpages and sending/recieving email.

Nowadays a web TV device with the ability to view sites like Hulu, Youtube or other movie download services would probably fair much better so long as it has flexible output to TV's and Monitors.

I think the biggest thing people had problems purchasing Web TV was that their was a subscription service and it required installation. I think a WiFi version with no subscription fees would do much better.

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