I bought one of these from a BB solely to see if it was worth keeping as a backup to my WDTV Live. The picture quality of its Realtek chip looked almost as good as the Sigma inside the Live, but it didn't seem powerful enough to handle streaming of MKVs as small as 1 GB. This could've been a network problem, however.
Another peculiarity is that when I ran it before updating the firmware, it activated x.v. color on my LCD on all settings, resulting in richer colors. After the update, that feature disappeared because I no longer saw "X.V." pop up on my set. Other than that, I'd say it will probably get better with more updates.
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I bought one of these from a BB solely to see if it was worth keeping as a backup to my WDTV Live. The picture quality of its Realtek chip looked almost as good as the Sigma inside the Live, but it didn't seem powerful enough to handle streaming of MKVs as small as 1 GB. This could've been a network problem, however.
Another peculiarity is that when I ran it before updating the firmware, it activated x.v. color on my LCD on all settings, resulting in richer colors. After the update, that feature disappeared because I no longer saw "X.V." pop up on my set. Other than that, I'd say it will probably get better with more updates.