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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Western Digital HD Player

No thoughts?
 
not the same product, but similar:

http://www.amazon.de/Siemens-Set-Topbox-terrestrischen-Fernsehempfang-Twin-Tuner/dp/B00067AHMS

sorry, the link is only german - i don't know if its hdready at all, but the funny thing is, that i sold it after a couple of weeks because the boot time took forever and ever ...

your post reminded my of this siemens box - and now i read in the amazon reviews that Siemens improved their box by new firmware upgrades .... sounds familiar?

regards,
martin

p.s. found an english link:

http://gigaset.com/shc/0,1935,hq_en_0_76522_rArNrNrNrN,00.html
 
Brandon I have one. I have been using it with clients for the last two months. Works great with thumb drive. I have not put Red QT footage on it yet just from the XDCAM EX1 on large HDTV screens and very nice picture.
 
We've got one hooked up in our lobby looping showreels and finished projects and one that goes out on pitches and client meets (pretty much everyone in the office has one at home too!) . Its amazing, especially for the price. (about $125 here)

It'll play almost anything you can throw at it. (although has a few audio issues. The "Shot on RED" reel for example, has an audio playback error. How appropriate!)

We play RED 4K footage mastered as a 2K Mp4 .H264 @20mb/s. And it looks great.

Doesn't play the QT proxies, if that's what you were asking. But I guess thats cause they need the .R3D to work, right?
 
Good cheap, simple product. Great to give clients for watching H264 dailies. I can throw one in my bag and use it to screen at a presentation, etc.

If only Apple TV was 1080 and Steve Jobs was smart enough buy Boxee ...
 
I know this space pretty well as I've had a variety of hard disk players for many, many years now.

If I was going to buy one--I would buy one that also plays ISO files directly with full DVD control (menu, chapters, etc) AFAIK Western digital doesn't play ISOs

Popcorn Hour is good (popcornhour.com) also the older tVisto & MVisto are good, the new tVisto pro is a bit buggy.

Just as an example: I could put the 720P file Jarred created directly into the popcorn hour and play it directly. I have all popcorn Hour, tVisto, MVisto as well as TVisto pro so I've gotten to know them pretty well :) I never got the Western Digital or any others like it because they don't play ISO files -- a deal breaker for me.

Also, you could get an Apple TV and hack it with Boxee to play networked content as well as a variety of web content (including Hulu) directly on the box. The hack is getting easier and easier to run the hack, but it still isn't quite ready for prime time and took quite a few tries to get the memory stick right. Boxee is pretty cool once you get it going though--you can read about it at boxee.tv

One last thing on popcorn hour that is great is you can plug in USB drives to it or even memory sticks with MP4s, WMV, or ISOs and they play just fine.

Best Regards,

Thom
 
Mark L. Pederson said:
Good cheap, simple product. Great to give clients for watching H264 dailies. I can throw one in my bag and use it to screen at a presentation, etc.

If only Apple TV was 1080 and Steve Jobs was smart enough buy Boxee ...
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Oh, how I wish the ATV would be updated and also made to be able to sync with other ATV's, not to mention add remote desktop support. Come on Apple.
 
Mark L. Pederson said:
...Steve Jobs was smart enough buy Boxee ...
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Haha, that would be great. Maybe he's smart enough to let them work in a "studio pressure free" zone with other people's money until they finish.

I'm afraid, however, If apple brought them they'd have to shut down all that was cool about it under pressure from the studios.
 
I own this Western Digital TV and freakin love it. 1080p h264 from a usb drive for only $100 is great.
 
It has no storage, but you use USB drives.

I am planning to pick one up. Is it correct to assume that it will provide phantom power via USB to a little portable 5400rpm drive?
 
Tom said:
It has no storage, but you use USB drives.

I am planning to pick one up. Is it correct to assume that it will provide phantom power via USB to a little portable 5400rpm drive?
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You are correct, that's my setup at the moment
 
My clients wanted their shows burned to Blu-Ray but I showed them the WD TV and they wanted about 10 of them. They stole mine that day....ordered another one the next day. I was getting all geared up for Blu-Ray but in reality all most of my clients need is the WD TV.
 
Michael Schrengohst said:
My clients wanted their shows burned to Blu-Ray but I showed them the WD TV and they wanted about 10 of them. They stole mine that day....ordered another one the next day. I was getting all geared up for Blu-Ray but in reality all most of my clients need is the WD TV.
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and the $100 unit cost easily fits into many a budget
 
Shawn Nelson said:
and the $100 unit cost easily fits into many a budget
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Exactly...my client was a chain of restaurants looking for a better way to deliver video to the large plasma screens. We were doing SD DVD in a loop but the DVD players would crap out after a few months. They were asking about Blu-Ray but the cost of players and development was more than they wanted to spend...Now individual restaurants can download new video and just copy it to the thumbdrive.
 
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