Posted by: robricc
Networked DVD players - 14/07/2005 12:32
Does anyone have recommendations or experience with a newtworked DVD player? Someone I know wants one and I suggested it should be able to play DivX and XviD files. Playing DVD rips over the network would be nice too. The
current GoVideo unit looks good. Has anyone used this? I can't seem to find an in-depth review with screen grabs.
Posted by: eliceo
Re: Networked DVD players - 14/07/2005 12:43
Ive been looking for something similar too but so far nothing fits my list
1: networked hopefully SMB with no extra client software
2: support for many formats: mpeg1/2/4, xvid,divx , etc
3: dvd menu playback over network
4: digitial connections a plus. HDMI or dvi.
5: upscaling a plus too
Maybe someone can make some good suggestions.
Posted by: tahir
Re: Networked DVD players - 14/07/2005 14:00
I was tempted by Kiss last year but heard a lot of bad things about tehm, unstable firmware and stuff, wonder if they've improved any:
http://www.kiss-technology.com/
Posted by: andym
Re: Networked DVD players - 14/07/2005 14:14
I've got a DP-1000 and the first couple of firmware releases were crap. I've recently upgraded it and it hasn't it hasn't missed a beat since.
Posted by: Attack
Re: Networked DVD players - 14/07/2005 14:42
I'm just going to create DVD images on my network (2TB raid array I'm planing on getting this year) and use
Daemon Tools to mount the image on the local HTPC and then play it using WinDVD or Zoomplayer with the Nvidia DVD codec.
Posted by: Dignan
Re: Networked DVD players - 14/07/2005 19:01
I bought
this In January. It's good, and considering it was the first player on Divx's own site. But now they have
a few more. I think the
Momitsu is pretty big now.
I definitely like my player, but it has some quality issues. Other than that, I have no problem playing DVD rips with surround sound AC3 tracks that I've made with FairUse.
Posted by: tman
Re: Networked DVD players - 14/07/2005 19:12
The IoData LinkPlayer, Buffalo LinkTheater and Momitsu V880N are all based on the same common hardware and software platform. Each company has made some tweaks to the hardware and software however but the underlying stuff is all the same.
The hardware is based on an older Sigma Designs chipset and the software is based on something called myiHome by Syabas. The server side software is pretty much compatible between them all.
Posted by: Dignan
Re: Networked DVD players - 15/07/2005 02:19
That explains why the Momitsu looked so familiar to me. I suspected as much.
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I definitely like my player, but it has some quality issues.
Build quality, or playback quality?
Well, both, unfortunately. The player software has some quirks. And simply starting up and ejecting the disc tray takes about 30 seconds sometimes. Other than that, it's got the full array of outputs (well, the Momitsu does - the Iodata has this stupid D4 connector), and suprisingly it doesn't look horrible. The only design changes I'd make are that the remote is pretty cheap and definitley looks like it wasn't made by the same company, and when the unit is in standby it has a blindingly bright blue power LED that I can't seem to turn off (it's mostly annoying because none of my other LEDs are blue - oh, and it's burning my retinas).
I can only speak to the USB thing a little. There's a port on the front that I thought would be great for plugging in my CF card reader and showing a slideshow. Well, maybe it's because the reader is 1.1 and maybe I have a slow CF card (and maybe my pictures were too big), but it took forever to go through the images, and I couldn't run them as a slideshow. I'd have to go back and select the next picture. I haven't tried viewing pictures from CD/DVD yet.
What I have noticed is that I've had trouble playing video files off of DVDs. I have the least expensive DVD-Rs I could find, so maybe that has something to do with it, but it would frequently freeze on me, and I have to put the files on my computer to stream them to the unit.
As a DVD player...it's just a DVD player.
As for the software side, I'll give them some slack. I bought this thing when this type of product was still pretty new, and they've already put out two or three firmware revisions. Plus, I haven't gotten a chance to update it yet (it doesn't seem to update properly if on a direct connection to the PC).
Any other questions?