I have one - it arrived here in Ireland last week. It has replaced my Mac Mini for media streaming - the poor baby was squaling like a pig after a few episodes of The Wire by the end.
It's great: RF remote, connects flawlessly to the home network, HDMI out, SPDIF optical - well, you'vre read the spec sheet. It's managed to play everything I've thrown at it. I've streamed HD video to it without any problems. AND IT'S SILENT! Not a whisper from it, which is why I bought it.
I have had a few issues with it though:
- If I "power off" with the remote control it goes into standby mode (like any other appliance) but when I come back to use it again it won't power back on - I need to physically flick the power back on and off with the switch at the back.
- Setting it at 1080p causes the image signal to keep crashing. Every couple of minutes the image (keeps playing) but flickers off from the TV and comes back on. I have a 1080p TV before anyone asks. Setting it to 1080i fixed the problem immediately.
- There is judder with the playback of not all, but quite a few avi's. If a camera is panning across a scene over a few seconds, you'll notice it drop a frame at around two second intervals. In most other scenes you don't spot it as easily but it's there - in a lot of my vids, even recent ones. It's not a huge problem (I got used to it) but it's annoying that it's not perfect.
Aside from these issues (which I'm guessing could be fixed with an update) I'm happy with it, and very happy with the price.
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It's great: RF remote, connects flawlessly to the home network, HDMI out, SPDIF optical - well, you'vre read the spec sheet. It's managed to play everything I've thrown at it. I've streamed HD video to it without any problems. AND IT'S SILENT! Not a whisper from it, which is why I bought it.
I have had a few issues with it though:
- If I "power off" with the remote control it goes into standby mode (like any other appliance) but when I come back to use it again it won't power back on - I need to physically flick the power back on and off with the switch at the back.
- Setting it at 1080p causes the image signal to keep crashing. Every couple of minutes the image (keeps playing) but flickers off from the TV and comes back on. I have a 1080p TV before anyone asks. Setting it to 1080i fixed the problem immediately.
- There is judder with the playback of not all, but quite a few avi's. If a camera is panning across a scene over a few seconds, you'll notice it drop a frame at around two second intervals. In most other scenes you don't spot it as easily but it's there - in a lot of my vids, even recent ones. It's not a huge problem (I got used to it) but it's annoying that it's not perfect.
Aside from these issues (which I'm guessing could be fixed with an update) I'm happy with it, and very happy with the price.
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