I have a Zensonic Z500 video streamer. The company is now called Ziova - http://www.ziova.com
The device is not nearly in the same league as the squeezebox (in terms of reliability, build quality, or slickness), and it's taken many firmware upgrades to get to this point, but overall it is now a decent video player for both optical media and streaming media. It now very rarely crashes or hangs, maintains sync almost all the time, to be honest has few practical problems. I only use it for video playback, have completely ignored its other features. Annoying lag the first time you fast forward a file, and a bit slow to boot, but the video quality is excellent on our 42" plasma and overall the device works well for downloaded telly etc. I have one server that serves both the music and the video, it's quite beefy which I think helps, there's never any lag due to the server. Until recently (Frimware 1.6.1) I would not have recommended it overall, but now I would. Although it's picture displaying abilities (ie slideshows) are still rubbish, which is the one other thing I would like to use it for. But for video, it's really pretty good now, we use it nearly every day with success. If you want to know anything about it, just ask. -- bossanova808 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bossanova808's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=619 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34370 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
