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

["Jon Payne" <jgpayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Forgot to say what I do use it for:

I use it for playing music videos,the odd film and checking the weather
forecatse. I've hacked it to provide digital audio out for better audio
quality (not 5.1 or DTS though unfortunately) using a 5GBP spdif bracket
off
ebay.

jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Payne" <jgpayne@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] WTD: Media Centre options to watch DIVX on TV


> 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
> >
> >
> > ----- 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
> >
> >
> > > Have a search - it can be had for 50GBP from a couple of
places...
> > >
> > > 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
> > >
> > >
> > > > Dear All,
> > > >
> > > > 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 !
> > > >
> > > > 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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