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Re: Re: Digital Video / Media Players, with Freeview Tuner



Oh that is unfortunate.

I have been doing a bit of scratching around and found this, but is not
a freeview tuner!

http://lifestyle.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=6622

Dan

Mal Lansell wrote:
>
> I had a read of the specs - very impressive. And then I had a read of
> the forums, and that's when the urge to buy one started to fade. I
have
> a collection of DVDs ripped and stored on my server (as VOBs and IFOs
> etc, rather than ISOs), but there are a lot of reports of stuttering
> playback with these.
>
> In addition, it appears that despite the claim of mpeg4 playback in
the
> specs, it can't actually do it (the chip they use doesn't support it).
>
> It's a shame, because I thought this might be "the one" :-(
>
> (I also didn't see any mention of control other than by the remote - a
> bit of a major ommision for us HAers!)
>
> Mal
>
> Dan Ward wrote:
>
> > I think I found it if you mean this one
> >
> >
> http://www.pixelmagicsystems.com/products/media_players/hd_mediabox.htm
> <http://www.pixelmagicsystems.com/products/media_players/hd_mediabox.htm>
> >
> <http://www.pixelmagicsystems.com/products/media_players/hd_mediabox.htm
> <http://www.pixelmagicsystems.com/products/media_players/hd_mediabox.htm>>
> >
> > Does not seem to have a antenna connection thou, it still looks
awesome.
> >
> > Iain Shaw wrote:
> > >
> > > PixelMagic do a very cool media streaming HD device and I
THINK - need
> > > to go and check - that it has a Freeview tuner
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > >
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