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Gateway Wireless Connected DVD Player Reviewed
Anonymous Howard writes "Designtechnica has a review of a Gateway ADC-320, a home theater device that will play not only DVDs, but media clips off the network. Supported types include DivX, Xvid, Mpeg1 & 2, MP3 and WMA. The thought of a networked media device is not new, but I'm curious as to how many people actually own one? How well do they work? What are the best ones? Is UP&P support worth the extra money? Is this the future of all DVD players for the home theater?"
This could be pretty cool...combine it with a video card with built-in TV tuner & some sort of TiVo-like software, and you could have a pretty sweet setup.
I do wonder if it can send data as well as receive...if so, the convenient wireless DVD 'backup' (yeah, that's it...backup) possibilities would be a nice cherry on top.Just once I'd like someone to call me 'Sir' without adding 'You're making a scene.'
Why do they always stop short. They always add one feature but forget the other major ones. PVR's should be able to play DVD's and vice versa. When will they get it. A network player is not novel.
Why can't everything run on OSX?
And totally worth it. All of my roommates are able to use BT (to get Linux ISOs, of course =D) without harassing me to forward ports to them.
Let's not forget that one can hate his government, but love his country.
Wow, all of those great features, and still crippled by regions. Doesn't matter so much to Americans I suppose, but as an Australian I won't consider a region crippled player, as heaps of DVDs aren't avaliable Region 4 (Australia), so I have to get them from Amazon, of course mostly region 1.
My money goes to your mom. So does Belluzo's. ...for poon.
A .divx file is just an .avi with a different extension. A bit like .mp3 is .wav with a different extension.
Then you should check out the IOData or Buffalo products. I have the former, which plays everything thrown at it. It supports RTSP so I imagine third-party servers would work. I wouldn't recommend the IOData because, although it's Region 2, it doesn't play Region 0. It's not made by IOData, of course: some of the more exotic error messages are still in English. It also responds sluggishly to the remote. Since you're in Japan, you know you can get a Cyberhome DVD player for next to nothing that will play all regions, right? Nowt wrong with having more than one DVD player.
...is what kills these things for me.
why can't any of them just read files off a drive share? why do they all require extra software??
the only one that doesn't need extra software is the turtle beach audiotron... but it's strictly music only.
It's Microsoft's choice to sell the X-Box and the media extender at the price is does. It's also my choice not to buy any of the games, and just to buy the X-Box and use it as a Linux machine, I see nothing immoral about it. I bought the hardware. They didn't license the hardware to me, there was no contract signed saying I wouldn't mod the box. I own the hardware, it's mine to do with as I wish.
> A bit like .mp3 is .wav with a different extension
You, sir, are mistaken
Should really be "An .avi is just a .divx with a different extension. A bit like .wav can be .mp3 with a different extension." - .wav files can contain any type of compressed audio, as well as raw audio data, but .mp3 should only contain mp3-codec-compressed audio. Similarly, .avi can contain any type of compressed or uncompressed video. They're both RIFF-type files, where the content type is identified by the header of each chunk of data, rather than the extension.