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personally, i'm not a netflix subscriber. but i WOULD be if my otherwise worthwhile streaming video box also provided netflix for me... and that's my point. (roku: get hulu and i'll be one of your boxes too!)
Netflix support for linux is coming by way of boxee "early next year" -> (http://www.deviceguru.com/boxee-adds-netflix-mo...) "As mentioned above, the new Netflix VOD support reportedly is already released for Mac OS X, and is expected to be available for Ubuntu Linux “early next year,” according to a source on the Boxee team. "
VuNow price will be $99 -> (http://www.jonzee.com/vunow-another-media-playi...) "The VuNow will cost you $99 bucks when it releases in December (15th)."
VuNow will support NAS -> (http://www.vunow.com/) "Access to Personal Media such as video, music, and photos from the home network – stored on a PC, Networked Attached Storage device, or even on a connected USB storage device"
I wasn't sure if you were ASKING about codec support on the VuNow, or stating that it exists. to be clear, xvid and matroska are both supported in the 'premium' VuNow offering -> (http://www.vunow.com/specifications)
"MPEG-2 PS
DVD VOB
Transport Stream
MP4
AVI
MOV"
iTunes support? not likely to ever officially happen - though if you've got iTunes running on another machine, remotely controlling that machine and streaming the audio to remote speakers is officially supported by apple, you just need to 1) use apple's AirTunes interface (with THEIR Airport access point), or 2) install audio hijack, etc to push the audio stream to, say, a shoutcast stream.
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Very nice indeed. I almost bought at DMA2100 since you can grab them for about $110 but I'm thinking of holding off now. I was just mentioning that they supported those codec's = ) I'm not able to find if the wifi adapter will be .N or .G
will be 802.11g via USB; and no, they don't claim support for any 3rd party wifi adapters (so it seems we'll have to buy theirs)
of course, i sat all day yesterday with credit card in hand refreshing the vunow page incessantly... until near the day's end when the page updated to tell me that i'd been wasting my time... the VuNow won't launch till the 22nd now.
sadly that's too late for xmas shopping -- so i'll be buying a roku (if any video player) for my brother. vunow must have lost a huge sales boon by slipping their delivery date so late (it was originally to be ready last summer) :(
Does the blueray players play 100% of the content? Does the Roku, PS3?
Is netflix going to come out with an instant solution that works on media center extenders (it currently doesn't)
Thanks for info but they really need to re-think this. They should either integrate 802.11N or allow you to use any adapter. Streaming HD via 802.11G is really not a good idea.
it should arrive early next week (maybe even tomorrow, friday, but i doubt it).
i opted for the SD unit with wifi. i'll be sure to post about my impression of the unit/service.
Haven't had much time to spend on this since the baby arrived = ) wanted to see if what you thought about the VuNow unit. I've also been checking out the HDX1000.
well, overall i'm impressed with the product, but not the service. the device decodes video smoothly and the user interface is responsive and pleasant to use. a few features should be added, like being able to re-organize the live streaming tv channels, or maybe flag some as "crap" and not have to scroll past them to find the one you want. HOLY crap is there a LOT of religious crap on there. if i was a born-again-christian or something i'd be in heaven. i'm not, so i'm in hell. go figure. seriously though, there must be at least 15 live streaming channels dedicated to Godvertising 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
which gets me into the services part. the 'services' are the live streaming channels, connection to youtube, cinemanow, etc. since cinemanow isn't live yet (click it and you get a "come back soon" message) i'll scrap that one from this post. youtube? i once said i hate it and done understand the draw to it. now that's all i really watch on this thing. here's a break down of what's available, with *'s next to what i watch:
1. * youtube (i subscribed to ChannelFrederator, RocketBoom, and a few others - i also use it as a radio and let music videos stream while i sit and surf the web on my mac)
2. video search (i'll occasionally use this to search for something specific, like John Stewart's interview at Crossfire)
3. * live streaming tv (there are 2 or 3 channels that don't 100% suck. the rest are totally worthless to me; i'd rather they didnt appear in my listings. the best, i think, is Film24 in the asian channels list. sadly it tends to be foreign films with an asian language for subtitles... so if it's not an english film to start with i have to abort and go watch youtube for 30 seconds before i get bored and turn it off)
4. bit-torrent (man, does ANYONE get good bandwidth with torrents? it's not the vunow, even on my mac i tend to get 1-10 kbps. that's it. same on the vunow. it takes a week to download an episode of grey's anatomy. a WEEK. when it was done downloading, something went screwy and the uncompressed file as a correct 132kbyte AVI that wouldn't play. i was NOT happy and haven't bothered trying again. bit-torrent was useless on my mac, and it's useless here)
5. *** UPnP (i use this ALL the time. it's the BEST way to play music, videos, or slideshows of pictures from my nokia phone. i've got an N95. if you own an N-series nokia phone, chances are that you've got this feature and never used it. nokia's directions assume you want to stream from the phone to a windows box, but that's garbage and failure prone - windows sucks - straming to the vunow works flawlessly almost 100% of the time. once i had the vunow freeze on me while i was streaming mp3s to it and browsing the 5MP images from new years eve. i don't know if the vunow failed, or if the phone failed. UPnP never worked right anywhere else for me)
non-existent (for now only, i hope)
in an email exchange with the CTO @ vunow, Vijay stated there were plans for hulu support to come, if/when possible, in the form of firmware update to existing boxes. i didn't ask about veoh or netflix.