This one time, at band camp, Dean Hamstead wrote: >>I bought one because the brochure was glossy and it has words like "ogg" >>and >>reviews like "works great". > >its the only dvd player profile, dvd and network media player. so meh.
parse error. >i would say that its very 'mother and father' compatible, being very >robust, quick booting and having a nice easy interface. Did you read the part of my email which is in direct contractiction to 2 of those 3 points? The thing takes about a minute to boot from power off, and it *power* *cycles* in the middle. It's embarrasing to have this supposedly bleeging edge technological device that boots slower than the time it takes to sit through a DVD copy protection notice. >>It reboots itself during the poweron phase, has a tanty when playing off of >>a SMB share, has a REAL tanty when playing off of a USB disk, randomly >>turns >>on subtitles when watching DVDs, loses audio channels when playing DVDs, >>has >>a terrible interface for browsing for music or video. > >make sure you update the firmware. i dont have any problems with smb or >dvd. I upgraded every firmware release since I've bought it; if they put out another one in the last month then I'll eat my words. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
