Bino,
The best I can say is to read the 'one star' reviews of this device on
Amazon. There are 25 reviews, 6 of them are 1 star. The reason you
read them is to see if the complaint is petty 'user interface is lame'
or if it might be serious 'when it resumes it plays back at rapid
speed'. This way you can tell what you're about to get and if you can
live with it. I don't think I've ever learned anything from a 5 star
review, unless all of them are, then you have a winner!
Steve
On 7/8/2010 1:11 PM, Bino Gopal wrote:
Hey guys, so I guess I'm getting persnickety in my "old-age" (I use that term
loosely, k? :P).
But dealing with computers and tech stuff all the time has meant that I have
little patience for futzing around with stuff and wanting to tweak things and
mess with all the details and whatnot-I mean I still do it when needed, but I
don't go out and look for it, and avoid it if I can...
So I'm not so into building the PC-I'll just buy it all ready to go and hope it
has as few problems as possible (there are still always some that need work).
Similarly, while I could build a HTPC for my HT to play any video files (for missed
TV shows and all that), I'd like to avoid that as much as possible, as long as I can
get something that'll do the job with minimal fuss. Sadly, I've lacked the ability
to do this (play PC video files easily), and have to manually connect my laptop via
VGA to my Samsung 60" DLP whenever I want to play files of stuff I've missed,
so it's a bit of a PITA...
But then I came across this:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003MVZ60I/ref=cm_cr_asin_lnk
The WD TV Live Plus! The reviews are really great for something this simple,
and it sounds like it'll play just about any format of video file from my PC
w/o me having to futz with dl'ing codecs and all that (and even plays .iso
files directly with DVD menus too!).
So is this the device I want-the one "true" device?! :P I figure a few other people here
must've looked into things like this, especially to keep it simple for wives/GFs. ;) I keep
hearing the "POPCORN" mentioned in the reviews, but apparently it's vaporware. And at
$120 shipped from Amazon in 2 days (I have Prime), I'm ready to pull the trigger, but figured I'd
check with the collective for thoughts first...
So any opinions, thoughts, shares regarding this device and the
state-of-the-art in this area (or recommendations for better devices) are much
appreciated. Thanks all!
BINO
