All these are rather basic in appearance and function. There are internet feeds, from Picasa and Flickr, plus news and weather services. One plus point is that this device is capable of passing Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio bitstreams to a compatible AV receiver via HDMI. Blu-ray ISOs were supported, but there were no menus, it just played back the video.
However, the interface could be better, with no thumbnails for videos, no album art for music streamed over UPnP and generally slow load times for photos. It played all our video test files without any problems. There’s wide file support across video, audio and image formats. The media streaming part of the package is far better implemented, but it’s still short of what the best devices offer. There’s also an AV input so you can capture video from external sources, handy if you’ve got old footage you want to digitise, but hardly essential.
The 1TB drive will hold a lot of programming, but without a decent EPG (and without a series link function to record all the shows in a series) you’ll struggle to make best use of it. In addition, you can’t schedule two recordings simultaneously, which seriously limits the usefulness of the dual tuners. It often came up with a warning message ‘Date/Time Not Feasible’ even when there were no other scheduled recordings. We had lots of problems with scheduling from the EPG.
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