ASUS ships $100 O!Play HDP-R1 HD media streamer
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posted October 1st 2009 9:52AM
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Hmmm, looks interesting for half $$ what other players are.
Nice list. Thanks for posting.
But few important - to me - things are missing: Vorbis for audio and ASS for subs.
And brand is ASUS.
I'll pass.
Oops. By OGG they probably mean Vorbis. OGG is a container. Vorbis is a codec.
This looks like it might be the solution I'm looking for. The one feature all these devices are lacking though (that no one else seems to be missing as sorely as I am) is playlist support. Am I the only one who wants to be able to stream several episodes of a tv show to my television without having to navigate to each episode when the previous one ends?
Western digital box kinda lets you do that.
Put all your shows in the same folder, navigate to it and start playing (with play button, not select).
Or, once you've started playing, go to the onscreen options ans select continuous play.
Felix, THANK YOU! I had been annoyed that my WDTV couldn't do this easily, while the old ScreenPlay I used to use did it. I never thought to try using the Play button. Now I have an option to "Play All" or just one at a time depending on the button choice... I appreciate the post. (Yes I'm sure reading the manual would help, but who does that, really?)
BFD -- AppleTV minus the software. Crapgadget >>>> fail.
I think a majority of people (including apple fans) will tell you that Apple TV is a failure at this point
Sure. How about AppleTV + expandable eSata storage + 1080p support
apple is the new sony. they've sold their souls to hollywood.
Crap... I just bought a Western Digital HD Media Player two days ago.
Don't worry too much.
The W.D is still an excellent choice, dual USB slots and excellent playback of 1080P (until over 20GB i have heard). Finally the User Interface is brilliant and there is also a strong fanbase, there is a forum for this and there are many customizations you can do to it. Finally, i think the W.D must have more features for this to cost as much as the Light Edition W.D media player (but we shall see, perhaps it was just because W.D were in a sort of monopoly)
the wdtv is a good player, it plays most things you can throw at it, the wd firmware is not bad and fans have customised it to fill in the blanks, like usb to ethernet support.
avs forums dot com had a very good thread on such tweaks last time I visited and if I had a wdtv thats the place I would go.
The software is always what gets you on these...It makes or breaks the device, regardless of how many formats and resolutions it supports.
Exactly. I've already sent back one of these "too good too be true" players for the lack of networking support. The specs here don't say anything about what type of file can be used. The one I sent back only supported a Public folder share from a PC. No server support at all. No NFS.
This one doesn't say anything about shares. Will be interesting to see what it really supports. Then too, we don't know what the gen 2 WDTV with Ethernet is going to support either. Hopefully it will have similar capabilities to the current firmware mods.
it would be nice if i could stream iso's over it. its such a pain transcoding my dvds to any format. anyone know of a good hardware setup to stream iso files?
Cinematube plays ISO files like a champ (the reason I started using it over my WDTV). I haven't tried it streamed yet, only via USB because I haven't gotten around to running the ethernet yet....but I would assume that it would stream it just as well as it would play it from the USB.
http://www.brite-view.com/cinematube.php
wow, thanks a ton. this will be great!
uh, that thing isn't even released yet?
Popcorn hour.
so i found the cinematube for 90 bucks on amazon, no waiting for nothin. they are shipping it tomorrow morning. this is hopefully gona be great. i just freed up an old external and threw all my movies on there. ima use the built in networking when i get it set up later. thanks dude!!
maybe i will take her back home and how her my O! Play. O! O! O!
how = show , of course.
Hmm this looks good value. Sorta inavdes some of the SlimDevices space and adds 108P Video play as well. Next move back over to SD at Logitech? Also invades NeurosAudio space.
hi
stream netflix dang it
Get an Xbox 360... they are dirt cheap & great media extenders + u can stream netflix... even in HD..
I hope the name doesn´t create confusion with this http://www.durex.com/en-gb/playo product here in europe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Use9jdUJstI
It's a shame it doesn't come with WiFi support. That would have made it perfect for sitting under the TV. I can't see many wives being happy about having an additional cable being run from the router to this.
ha! You know?
My wife won't care since in our home the router is right next to the living TV.
I image others are not so lucky
i'd almost bit eon this.. but first i'd need to make sure that we can get boxee up and running on this puppy.
Does this stream Hulu/Boxee? I'd get it if it does. Of course the lack of wifi is annoying. I have Tivo HD with the wifi but I dont think that streams Hulu/Boxee. Anyone have any idea?
Any idea how this would compare to the WD HD 2 player?
@Gipionocheiyort
Wow thanks, that is what I have been looking for, I had been waiting for the new WDTV with network support, but Ive just been sick of waiting (That one also has an estimated price of over $100), I was on the verge of getting this ASUS one, until I saw your suggestion
@Acme:
300 units were released on sept 21st to the first set of preorders, they are doing another run of 100 pre orders with a release for Oct 5th. (Then the price goes up)
I can stream from my PC via Wifi media files (movies, music, youtube, netflix) on my LG BD-390 BluRay player. What would i get out of owning this device?
Can this record TV shows like a DVR?
It's nice to see cheaper units coming to market
I'm still looking for a good solution that includes an ATSC tuner that gives me PVR functions to save recordings to an internal hard drive I can install or to an external USB/eSata hard drive. Of course, the more formats it can decode, including ISO and MKV, the better.
Does anyone know of such a solution for the North American market.
I like the new Popcorn Hour model, but it does not have any PVR functions as far as I can tell.
Thanks,
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I say get the Acer Aspire Revo and run XBMC on it.
They're only running 200 @ newegg, but it'd be a better experience.
Wow, that's an insanely good price for this thing! But I do wonder if the ION LE w/ single core is going to be beefy enough to handle the animation heavy WMC (or XBMC) interface and 1080p video smoothly. Better to wait for the full ION? Still, wow.
Wait for full ION? Ion LE came out after the ION and the original Acer Aspire Revo was released before that. The only difference is lack of DX10 anyway, and do you really need it with only an atom processor?
This comment system is broken.. this is the third attempt to add a reply.
Acer Revo runs XBMC and full HD like a champ.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf5h6QxFleE
Boxee might be another alternative instead of xmbc.
That aspire looks pretty sweet... would it pair well with a happauge win hd tv pvr so I can record shows off of my tivo?
h0mi
With the Acer, you could use pyTivo to copy the shows from your TiVo to the HD, then use tivodecrypter so that any media player can read them.
@chris- I have some shows that can't be pulled off using pytivo (and I bought tivo desktop anyway) because of CCI bytes so I'd be using the hauppage device. I tried this on my laptop and had problems with playback so I'm trying to get upgraded hardware that would let me know if my software or hardware is fubared or not.
I just ordered one. should be here tomorrow. Will post results.
I ordered one this afternoon. Hopefully gets here this week. Will also post results :P
Anyone know of a player that can playback uncompressed MKV files? or even Bluray ISO with menu support? I'm not looking for streaming, but that wouldn't be bad either.
MKV is just a container, and do you really mean uncompressed? No-one (outside of maybe film and broadcast) uses lossless compression. let alone uncompressed digital video.
me too! and if it can pass through dts hd master and true hd audio? looking forward to a review!
I meant something that could play X.264 MKV or M2TS. Is that a correct way of putting it?