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boatofcar
Joined: 20 Dec 2006
Location: Sheffield, UK
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 Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 2:03 am Post subject: Apple TV- like DVR recommendations? |
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| 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
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boatofcar
Joined: 20 Dec 2006
Location: Sheffield, UK
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| Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 5:23 am Post subject: |
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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
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| Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 5:40 am Post subject: |
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| boatofcar wrote: |
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
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| Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 5:52 am Post subject: |
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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
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Mr. Pink
Joined: 21 Oct 2003
Location: China
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| Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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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
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| Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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This rocks. Thank you so much! |
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blackjack
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: anyang
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Rusty Shackleford
Joined: 08 May 2008
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| Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 12:34 am Post subject: |
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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
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| Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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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
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| Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 11:41 pm Post subject: |
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| 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
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| Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 8:10 am Post subject: |
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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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