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Apple TV- like DVR recommendations?

 
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boatofcar



Joined: 20 Dec 2006
Location: Sheffield, UK
PostPosted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 2:03 am    Post subject: Apple TV- like DVR recommendations? Reply with quote
I'm looking for something that works like the Apple TV that I can get easily here. Any suggestions?
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swigs



Joined: 20 Apr 2008
PostPosted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 4:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Engadget posted something of the sorts recently: http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/how-to-build-a-blu-ray-tv-tuner-equipped-htpc-for-under-1-00/

They list a 1k version and a .5k version. (USD)

Eventually I'm going to make my old macbook my home media center...by using my itouch as the computers mouse/keyboard/controller. sweet.
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boatofcar



Joined: 20 Dec 2006
Location: Sheffield, UK
PostPosted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 5:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
swigs wrote:
Engadget posted something of the sorts recently: http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/how-to-build-a-blu-ray-tv-tuner-equipped-htpc-for-under-1-00/

They list a 1k version and a .5k version. (USD)


That does look cool, but a bit overkill for what I want. All I want is just a box with a remote and a decent UI that I can store and play ripped DVDs on.
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Mr. Pink



Joined: 21 Oct 2003
Location: China
PostPosted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 5:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
boatofcar wrote:
swigs wrote:
Engadget posted something of the sorts recently: http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/how-to-build-a-blu-ray-tv-tuner-equipped-htpc-for-under-1-00/

They list a 1k version and a .5k version. (USD)


That does look cool, but a bit overkill for what I want. All I want is just a box with a remote and a decent UI that I can store and play ripped DVDs on.


http://www.tvix.co.kr/eng/

I got one of those and they work pretty damn good. I've gotten my money's worth and more out of it. I put a 1TB HD in there and attached 2 external drives with more downloaded ISOs or VIDEO_TS.
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steveohan



Joined: 24 Apr 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
PostPosted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 5:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
get a mac mini.

i've got one hooked up to my lcd.
works a treat.
its my dedicated torrent box and i also throw my movies and tvshows on there for viewing.

it has the frontrow interface so i can access movies, pictures, and podcasts.
i love it!
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pkang0202



Joined: 09 Mar 2007
PostPosted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
OP

Get the Western Digital HD TV player.

http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/12/14/review-western-digital-wd-tv-hd-media-player/

It's simple. Its cheap. It works!
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Mr. Pink



Joined: 21 Oct 2003
Location: China
PostPosted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 5:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
pkang0202 wrote:
OP

Get the Western Digital HD TV player.

http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/12/14/review-western-digital-wd-tv-hd-media-player/

It's simple. Its cheap. It works!


You get what you pay for. I still prefer the box I have. I can network it and use network drives, I can put an internal HD of my choosing inside, and it has 2 USB ports for 2 extra HDs.
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boatofcar



Joined: 20 Dec 2006
Location: Sheffield, UK
PostPosted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
pkang0202 wrote:
OP

Get the Western Digital HD TV player.

http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/12/14/review-western-digital-wd-tv-hd-media-player/

It's simple. Its cheap. It works!


This rocks. Thank you so much!
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blackjack



Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: anyang
PostPosted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
This has been highly recommended on the other site

http://english.gmarket.co.kr/challenge/neo_goods/goods.asp?goodscode=161287984

http://www.mvix.net/default.asp click red x to remove legal disclaimer
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Rusty Shackleford



Joined: 08 May 2008
PostPosted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 12:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I posted a thread on this, maybe, three weeks ago. I was going to buy this one

http://english.gmarket.co.kr/challenge/neo_goods/goods.asp?goodscode=161287984

Or a mac mini but the western digital is looking mighty enticing. It would do 90% of what I want it to do 90% of the time. But the one in the link has some cool features like streaming to your network and what not.
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furtakk



Joined: 02 Jun 2009
PostPosted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 10:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
this may be harder to find in korea... but an original xbox softmodded with xbmc is probably the greatest media player of this type i have ever used.

http://xbmc.org/

they are dirt cheap now and simple to mod yourself so it makes a cheap alternative. the only drawback is they have really old hardware so playing hd stuff isn't really possible, but it handles regular xvid/divx and most reasonably sized mkvs just fine.
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blackjack



Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: anyang
PostPosted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 11:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Rusty Shackleford wrote:
I posted a thread on this, maybe, three weeks ago. I was going to buy this one

http://english.gmarket.co.kr/challenge/neo_goods/goods.asp?goodscode=161287984

Or a mac mini but the western digital is looking mighty enticing. It would do 90% of what I want it to do 90% of the time. But the one in the link has some cool features like streaming to your network and what not.


I just bought three of these for gifts back home, just formating drives and transferring data. Will give a review when every thing is up and running. They look good and delivery is super fast (paid yesterday got them at lunch today)
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pkang0202



Joined: 09 Mar 2007
PostPosted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 8:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
The firmware on the WD HDTV is open source.

There are custom firmwares that allow you to plug in a USB ethernet jack so that you can network stream to the player.


I keep all my movies/music/TV shows on an external HD.

If I'm watching something that has just aired recently, I just copy it to a USB flash drive and play straight from that.


It plays 90% of the things I throw at it. 1080 HD picture looks great, and I can fast forward/rewind 1080p video at 16x without any problems.

Not bad at all for $100.
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