I'm planning to write a bit about digital media players in the near future.
Recently, I played with a WD TV HD Live player, and it was nice, but I didn't like it as much as the Asus O!play Air that I've been using for a while. The WD was nice, but in the end, it lacked just a few key features that were deal-breakers for me. Specifically, I couldn't get it to send Dolby Digital to my receiver
in bitstream format... I just couldn't find an option to change that, so I couldn't get it to play 5.1 surround over HDMI.
Second, I couldn't just plug in the HDMI jack and have it work (fault of the TV, I'm sure) and then unplug it, take to to the bedroom tv at night and plug it in as composite... I had to go into the menus and reconfigure it when I moved it... Something my wife ain't gonna do ;)
Lastly, it can do YouTube, but cant follow my YouTube subscriptions properly, making YouTube useless unless you like to watch totally random stuff. Personally, I like following certain sportscasters, and I just wan to find their most recent posts, but I just can't do it.
The O!play Air by Asus can do all of that except the YouTube thing, but I've been reading that they are adding it with a firmware update... That, and I can just use PlayOn for YouTube anyway.
More info later when I can post again!
- Posted on the run (iPhone)
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Not even enough time for a 5 minute thought? Really?
Yeah, I've been having trouble getting enough time to even post a 5 minute thought.
I've started an online college course, and it's eating up pretty much every available minute of my time. Well, that and this massive project I'm working on at work, so I don't even have time during the day to post stuff. I'm still trying to do better, for those couple of people who actually read this stuff :P
Anyway, today I ordered a Western Digital WD TV HD Live box. I already have an Asus O!Play Air box that my father in law uses, so I decided to get something different for my second Digital Media Player. I'm very interested in the hack-ability of these things. For example, I know the O!Play air can be tweaked if you log into it via Telnet... For example, you can permanently link network drives to it as if they were local if you "mount" the drives in just the right way within the Linux file system that it runs... I expect I'll be able to mess around similarly with the WD box. I'll post a review after I have it here to play with it.
That's it for now, I'll try to get back tomorrow with more!
I've started an online college course, and it's eating up pretty much every available minute of my time. Well, that and this massive project I'm working on at work, so I don't even have time during the day to post stuff. I'm still trying to do better, for those couple of people who actually read this stuff :P
Anyway, today I ordered a Western Digital WD TV HD Live box. I already have an Asus O!Play Air box that my father in law uses, so I decided to get something different for my second Digital Media Player. I'm very interested in the hack-ability of these things. For example, I know the O!Play air can be tweaked if you log into it via Telnet... For example, you can permanently link network drives to it as if they were local if you "mount" the drives in just the right way within the Linux file system that it runs... I expect I'll be able to mess around similarly with the WD box. I'll post a review after I have it here to play with it.
That's it for now, I'll try to get back tomorrow with more!
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