[mythtv-users] Newegg has sale this weekend on WD HD player

[Tree]

On Fri, 8 Oct 2010, bhaskins wrote:

> Not a WD but:
> I just got a Asus O!play a short time ago and I'm very impressed with it.
> ...
> I would like to hear from any others that have this unit.

I also have one of these as a secondary player. What attracted me to it 
was that it has regular video-out, and was a cheap way to down-scale my HD 
recordings for SD television sets. Most of the other players I looked at 
when researching this one did not have SD, analog outputs.

The menu based UI is acceptable, but not spectacular. There is a 
significant delay (over the network anyway) where the device seems to load 
a thumbnail or preview, (even with previews disabled) before you can 
select a file to play.

Playon support has gone back and forth between working and not working.

There is active support from Asus, with frequent firmware updates.

I generally use it exclusively over upnp, but have also used it with a usb 
drive to take on vacation, and it worked very well for that.

-Tree