$179 in the US but when you add in $25 for international shipping (Canada) and $40 duty from customs it turns into $250 for me :) Still worth it.
Don't have any BluRay / HD-DVD movies as I don't own a player and until now didn't have any way of playing them back. As soon as I get my hands on a movie I will let you know. Haven't tried the BT client yet. Installing it now. I've been spoiled by uTorrent with the RSS downloader plug-in so I imagine that I will be disappointed. But it is totally software dependant so there is hope for improvement. ----- Brian On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Bryan Seitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 03:13:11PM -0400, Brian Weeden wrote: > > No Wi-fi either so it will only work in networked setups. But after > > struggling with streaming video over Wi-Fi for the last 6 months I can > > understand why they left that off. > > Duh :) > > > As far as Gigabit LAN, not sure why that wasn't included. Maybe it was > a > > Linux support issue - the thing uses an embedded kernel, not sure what > > version. > > Cause it is likely that you don't have any hi def videos @ > 25Mbit. > > > As I said I've run 720p AVI files from it (42 minutes, 1.2 GB file size) > and > > it worked flawlessly. My TV is a native 720p box so I'm happy. If and > when > > we upgrade to a 1080p set then I will have to probably reconsider, but > > supposedly the box will do 1080p. > > I wonder what the max bitrate h.264 it will play, I know the appletv plays > '720p' > as well, but @ <= 4Mbit which kinda sucks. Any details? Test any good 8G > blu ray rips? > > > It can connect to any sort of external NAS and also has 2 USB 2.0 ports > to > > connect devices. The box will operate as a NAS itself for any drives > > attached to those ports and even has a built-in BitTorrent server which > is > > like an added bonus. Also looks like it supports DVD playback from an > > external drive attached to the USB ports, haven't tried that yet. > > Hmmm interesting. Does bit torrent bog it down? > > > More than exceeds my expectations for $250. > > $179 in the US :) > > -- > > Bryan G. Seitz >
