adhawkins;687522 Wrote: > Been considering one of these myself. What's the issue with Internet > streaming? > > Was considering it to be able to watch BBC iPlayer, YouTube etc. on my > main > TV.
Actually, it does work okay for internet streaming, but the problem is the user interface is so poor that you've got to jump through hoops to be able to use it in the first place. iPlayer is prone to crashing though, and the YouTube app has been dreadful until the latest release which is better but still way off the quality of what you get on other boxes. If you really want to use it for internet streaming then there are better boxes out there. You'd probably be better off with a cheap blu-ray player that has these apps built in. And Roku has just launched in the UK, will be getting YouTube back at some point, and I'm sure they'll be looking to add iPlayer and the other catch-up services if they can. I'd keep watch over this one. But, for local playback of hi-def material, you really can't beat the Popcorn Hour. The video quality is way better than the competing boxes which was my #1 deciding factor. -- paulster Receiver stuck at blue LED state after reboot? Please vote for bug '17462' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17462) Web Interface sending music to the wrong player? Please vote for bug '17144' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17144) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ paulster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23073 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93278 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
