Re: WTD: Media Centre options to watch DIVX on TV

["Jon Payne" <jgpayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Difficult to say, I've got one and for 50GBP I think it's great.

However I wouldn't have been happy if I'd paid 100GBP for it.

It has great potential and people have already hacked it to add various
things (weather display, mythTv front-end).

But it doesn't do 16:9/4:3 switching, doesn't handle multistandard TVs
(switching between NTSC/PAL according to the video type) and fails to
centre/size some video correctly. Also, the MP3 interface is very basic so
I've gone back to using my Rio Receiver for MP3s for now!

Have a look on the forums:
http://www.shspvr.com/forum/index.php?h=0&pf=0&c=9

BTW Novatech are doing it for 52GBP incl.
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?HAU-MVP

In summary, I'm happy with it, but could be happier ;-)

Cheers,
Jon

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Cooke" <acooke@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] WTD: Media Centre options to watch DIVX on TV


> Thanks for the reply Jon,
>
> Not had much luck finding it that cheap. But I guess I was interested
really
> to see if anyone on this list would recomend it... in relation to the
amount
> it costs
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jon Payne" <jgpayne@xxxxxxx>
> To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 8:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] WTD: Media Centre options to watch DIVX on TV
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> > Have a search - it can be had for 50GBP from a couple of
places...
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> > jon
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Andrew Cooke" <acooke@xxxxxxx>
> > To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 5:32 PM
> > Subject: [ukha_d] WTD: Media Centre options to watch DIVX on TV
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> > > Dear All,
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> > > Been looking at various options around. I know that there
are wireless
> > options, XBOX option etc... however I caught QVC selling this.
And its
> > cheaper than ebuyer !
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> > > I'm looking for opinions or better options. Personally I am
really
keen
> on
> > the XBOX idea however @ 200 quid vs other options I am open to
other
ideas
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