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[Gambra]

Anyone have one of these? Thinking of picking one up this one off ebay to go under my TV and use it to play video files mostly but also the tiny bit of gaming (mostly old school stuff) and obviously a bit of web browsing and the like. Getting sick of having to convert all my HD files for the 360 and I can also put in my external hard drives into it as well.

 

[Froog]

he...geebox....he...he...

 

[ratmonkey]

Anyone have one of these? Thinking of picking one up this one off ebay to go under my TV and use it to play video files mostly but also the tiny bit of gaming (mostly old school stuff) and obviously a bit of web browsing and the like. Getting sick of having to convert all my HD files for the 360 and I can also put in my external hard drives into it as well.

Can you not use something like TVersity and transcode your video stuff on the fly?

 

[HMD]

so what does it do?

 

[Gambra]

Can you not use something like TVersity and transcode your video stuff on the fly?

I could but that would require a computer on the go the whole time and as I only actually have a laptop that's not really feasable..

 

[pete]

I've of the original ones. I picked it up in Singapore last year for about €200. I had planned on using it with the telly but while it can output a 1080p picture, it can't do HD video at all. It's tiny and completely silent, which is nice.

 

[Stan Bowles]

We have one at work attached to the back of a LCD. I couldn't comment on picture quality as we only run SAP on it, but as brady says it's small and silent.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Is it just a hard-drive for playing through the telly?

 

[pete]

it's a PC in a very small box

 

[Gambra]

I've of the original ones. I picked it up in Singapore last year for about €200. I had planned on using it with the telly but while it can output a 1080p picture, it can't do HD video at all. It's tiny and completely silent, which is nice.

The new models have been designed specifically to handle HD video and have been given a graphics card that handles the video to take the strain off the CPU.

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