Hey, look at this

nitro237 · Post by **nitro237** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 10:49 pm

Stumbled upon this, anyone used anything like this. It might be better than a media pc for me.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136325&Tpk=WDAVN00BN

Pugsley · Post by **Pugsley** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 9:13 am

looks interesting...

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 10:41 am

Looks like it's built around the same drive used in Western Digital MyBooks. I've yet to see one of those last more than a year, although you could always replace the drive I suppose if it fails.

Decent review here though: http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=4745

nitro237 · Post by **nitro237** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:53 am

FP, you can use any brand external hard drive with it.

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 2:35 pm

Might want to get it here:
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/prod ... u=A2161994

nitro237 · Post by **nitro237** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 3:44 pm

normalicy wrote:Might want to get it here:
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/prod ... u=A2161994

Yep, that's how I stumbled up on it. I'm getting one. I talked to a girl at Bestbuy today at lunch, she said they are selling alot of them.

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 8:41 pm

Don't want to sound like a retard, but how does this device work with your TV?

nitro237 · Post by **nitro237** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 8:58 pm

Executioner wrote:Don't want to sound like a retard, but how does this device work with your TV?

I just got mine. I cashed in a Bestbuy gift card.

I hooked it up to my 47" LCD using HDMI cable. It works great. The picture quality is not HD, but pretty good since the average movie download is only about 700MB.

I hooked up a SATA laptop hd in an external case to it. I also played videos from my jump drive.

This is much better than downloading and then making a DVD.

DoPeY5007 · Post by **DoPeY5007** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 9:00 pm

So I know this is a little more money, ok double, but it can do more.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6882082009

nitro237 · Post by **nitro237** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 9:44 pm

DoPeY5007 wrote:So I know this is a little more money, ok double, but it can do more.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6882082009

It is alot more money, and you have to stream your video over your network.
I have a horse trailer with living quarters. The WD unit will travel better , for me.

There's is also another device that look good, popcorn hour.It too, was more money. So far, the WD has played every kind of file I throw at it.

two slow · Post by **two slow** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:24 am

that thing looks pretty good.

nitro237 · Post by **nitro237** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 9:24 am

OK,l been using this for a couple of weeks. I am very impressed. Very simple to use and portable. Sure beats burning downloaded video to a DVD.