Total piece of crap system. The only networking support is to windows... and then ONLY to the ALL USERS Public folders. No support for any other shares. No way to insert a userid & password. If you think the Popcorn interface is bad... this one will kill you. I had about 100 movies and 10,000 mp3s on a 1TB drive. This thing had to scan EVERYTHING before it would let go to load one file. then backing up a menu level started the scan all over. Absolutely totally useless.
Mine is being returned to Amazon tomorrow.
The WDTV with 3rd party firmware to support a USB network card blows this thing away. Look for the WDTV wiki. Easy updates to boot off a USB thumb drive or hard drive. Not a Popcorn Hour. But not $250 either.
While its tablet world topping pixel density, Tegra 2 silicon, and fresh to death OS certainly sound awesome, we had to get our grubby mitts on one to see if it's as good as its spec sheet would have us believe.
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Total piece of crap system. The only networking support is to windows... and then ONLY to the ALL USERS Public folders. No support for any other shares. No way to insert a userid & password. If you think the Popcorn interface is bad... this one will kill you. I had about 100 movies and 10,000 mp3s on a 1TB drive. This thing had to scan EVERYTHING before it would let go to load one file. then backing up a menu level started the scan all over. Absolutely totally useless.
Mine is being returned to Amazon tomorrow.
The WDTV with 3rd party firmware to support a USB network card blows this thing away. Look for the WDTV wiki. Easy updates to boot off a USB thumb drive or hard drive. Not a Popcorn Hour. But not $250 either.