Networked DVD Players, Good or Bad?

Posted by Cliff on Monday May 24, 2004 @12:42PM from the worthy-additions-to-the-home-theatre? dept.

ageoffri asks: "My 5 year old Pioneer DVD player is starting to act up so I need to replace it soon. A friend of mine mentioned he got a Go Video DVD player. This got me wondering how many more networked DVD players there were and some searches found a few, but almost no reviews on any of them. I'm wondering if any Slashdot readers have used a networked DVD player and if so how well it worked? Is the picture quality the same for playing a DVD in the player or from a PC? I'm only looking for one that either comes with or can accept a wireless connection."

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Gateway networked DVD player by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-24 16:15 · Score: 2, Interesting

Do not get this. It requires a client that only runs on windows and only finds stuff to play from windows media player. I bought it when Gateway still had stores. Asking them about reading off a samba share. The really didn't know what a samba share was, but they told me that if my windows machine could see it, then this thing could play it. Yeah, sort of. The software client is really poorly written and has a terrible interface. It is too bad because I have had good luck with Gateway stuff in the past, but I will not be buying anything from them anymore.