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Hey, look at this
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 10:49 pm
by nitro237
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
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 9:13 am
by Pugsley
looks interesting...
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 10:41 am
by FlyingPenguin
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
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:53 am
by nitro237
FP, you can use any brand external hard drive with it.
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 2:35 pm
by normalicy
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 3:44 pm
by nitro237
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.
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 8:41 pm
by Executioner
Don't want to sound like a retard, but how does this device work with your TV?
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 8:58 pm
by nitro237
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.
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 9:00 pm
by DoPeY5007
So I know this is a little more money, ok double, but it can do more.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6882082009
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 9:44 pm
by nitro237
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.
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:24 am
by two slow
that thing looks pretty good.
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 9:24 am
by nitro237
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.