Musketeer;246181 Wrote: > What do the rest of you use? After a lot of research (and getting fed up waiting for a SlingCatcher - http://us.slingmedia.com/object/io_1168286861787.html) I went for the "Freecom Mediaplayer-350 WLAN Drive-In kit" (http://www.freecom.com/ecproduct_detail.asp?ID=3406&CatID=8060&sCatID=1147633&ssCatID=1147633).
It connects to your TV via HMDI or composite and streams lots of video formats wirelessly, from an internal hard disk or USB media. The Freecom device appears to be a rebranded Mediagate MG-350HD (http://www.mediagateusa.com/html/mg350.html) or maybe they are both rebranded versions of something else. In any case they are the same hardware but Mediagate is US only. I haven't found much it can't play back yet - it takes DivX/XVid, HD Transport Streams, DVD images, etc. Of course, like the Squeezebox, there is no support for DRM'd files but, like the Squeezebox, that's not a problem. Regarding the Freecom "drive in kit" - this is the playback hardware without an internal drive (cheaper). My intention was to stream remotely from my PC (like my SqueezeBoxen) which works fine but I ended up buying a PATA hard drive to mount inside it. It now works as a NAS and my video can easily be transferred via FTP or SAMBA file sharing. With hindsight I should have bought one of the models with a drive pre-installed - that would have been cheaper. Hope that helps. -- barcar ------------------------------------------------------------------------ barcar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1760 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40689 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
