Battlemodos give you a well-defined horse sense of what ’s unspoiled and bad in a appliance category , but there ’s no way to include everything . Consider the $ 99 Asus O!Play the new champ of HD video actor — well late than never .
The Old Champs
If you remember theHD media player battlemodo , I awarded WDTV Live and Seagate FreeAgent Theater+ the two top spots . The WD is still just for multitude who want a smooth user interface and a hopefully increasing number of online service for streamed medium . ( YouTube and Pandora now , who know what else ? ) It ’s in reality the Seagate that get KO’d by Asus .
https://gizmodo.com/hd-media-player-battlemodo-apple-tv-killers-5397986
The New Buttkicker
More functional than frilly , both the O!Play and the Theater+ palm every video file I could throw their elbow room , they both read Mac- and PC - format drives , they both browse the local internet well , they both understand DVD menus from ripped ISO files , they both have superb TV end product — and they both meet from having dazed punctuation mark fictional character in their name . But one costs $ 30 less than the other , according toAmazon ’s current prices . Not only is the O!Play cheap , but its second USB jack is also an eSATA port which might come in ready to hand when you start getting 1080p rips of all your favourite movies , and it has a file cabinet - copy function that lets you deck material from one effort to another , or to drives on the mesh .
I had only one major complaint with the Asus : Every time I watched a video rip from DVD , it showed chapter numbers in a big white font for an extended catamenia , about 15 seconds . Not only did push every single button I could think of not help this , but I could n’t even advance from one chapter to another by using the omission - forward button , so why do I need to have intercourse what chapter it is in the first stead ? A shame , but probably a bug that can be repair really easily .
The Final Score
As I saidin the battlemodo :
• If you want a full - on plagiarist kit , with waterspout node built - in and everything , go with the Popcorn Hour ( or the meretricious , quirky Patriot Box Office ) .
• If you need something with a squeamish user interface and Pandora streaming music , go with WDTV .
• If you ’re choosing something to work with your iTunes collection of medicine and video , or something for your parents , probably still better to pick Apple TV — and tell them to bribe or rent all their picture .
But if you want something that can dally a gross ton of home - ripped television , or stuff you ’ve acquired in some other eminent - bandwidth way , Asus is a better deal than Seagate — just as rugged to stump in my battery of file format tests , with a few excess nice characteristic . That ’s my best and final recommendation for HD video recording file playback — at least until Roku calculate out what theUSB diddly-shit on the HD - XRis really for . [ Asus ]
https://gizmodo.com/roku-hd-xr-hands-on-wheres-roku-going-with-this-5390586
Great terms for a high - def HDMI video musician
make for every video file I could throw at it , including DivX 7 MKVs , high - def H.264 , even isolated home movies from out - of - date cameras
A bit big than some products out there , but not by much
No streaming net religious service
plaguy germ that shows chapter number in a declamatory white font as you watch out movies ripped from DVD
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