I got one of those from divxtech. It is the ugliest thing I spent my money on. And this is what you can see from the pictures. Seen it from close distance (as I do) it just screams CHEAP. It is all plastic and even this one of the most ordinary type. The remote feels looks and works like the one that you buy in a two dollar shop for $1.5. The performance is far from acceptable, the support for media includes ONLY mpeg2 anything else just doesn't work... the on screen menus are just plain un-logical. If you turn it off with the dvd inside it will be trapped inside until you start it again. If you let the box on, after a while it just stops working, so that anything you do you have to reboot the box and WAIT untill it connects to the network and REBUILDS again and again the lists of directories to be played. The sound is awful, like when you listen to an old radio that dropped in a yoilet and it is not quite tuned on the post. It's interesting how it supports 1020p but has a drive for DVD not blue ray. Where do you get a 1080p stream? And those guys pretend just like divxtech that it their product... didn't even bother to change the box or something... My advice: STEER CLEAN and avoid the stench...
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I got one of those from divxtech. It is the ugliest thing I spent my money on. And this is what you can see from the pictures. Seen it from close distance (as I do) it just screams CHEAP. It is all plastic and even this one of the most ordinary type. The remote feels looks and works like the one that you buy in a two dollar shop for $1.5. The performance is far from acceptable, the support for media includes ONLY mpeg2 anything else just doesn't work... the on screen menus are just plain un-logical. If you turn it off with the dvd inside it will be trapped inside until you start it again. If you let the box on, after a while it just stops working, so that anything you do you have to reboot the box and WAIT untill it connects to the network and REBUILDS again and again the lists of directories to be played. The sound is awful, like when you listen to an old radio that dropped in a yoilet and it is not quite tuned on the post.
It's interesting how it supports 1020p but has a drive for DVD not blue ray. Where do you get a 1080p stream?
And those guys pretend just like divxtech that it their product... didn't even bother to change the box or something...
My advice: STEER CLEAN and avoid the stench...