Rating: Summary: Sound Quality Review: Just got this from Office Depot. Super fast delivery (received it within 24 hours). Everything went well except that I am a little concerned about the sound quality. I bought Panasonic F65 and after I decided to buy this I returened the Panasonic DVD player. I feel the Panasonic one sounds better than this one. Not sure I am right about this or it is just because I listened to too much music.Another thing is, the file navigation is really slow. If you got a big library on your computer, chooing the files you want to play can be really painful. But overall, looks like GO VIDEO did a pretty decent job on this product.
Rating: Summary: Plays MPEG4 + MP3's + Streaming Media!! Review: Just got this. I also bought an extended warranty for it. I like it because #1 it's cheap #2 it's got all the connections on the back that I need #3 it works like a charm. I upgraded the firmware on the thing and now it plays everything. I highly recommend this. But get an extended warranty since some people say that it might fail.
Rating: Summary: Poor Wireless Support Review: Maybe it works with some of the wireless cards out there, but who can justify purchasing one model after another from their "supported" list until you find one that really works? I purchased a Belkin F5D6020 after seeing it on their "supported" list, only to find out that not all versions of the F5D6020 are supported. Did they bother to indicated that though? No! So I'm stuck with a "supported" card which doesn't work. I'm not about to continue to purchase "supported" cards in the hope that I might just get lucky and get one that really works. They really missed the boat with their documentation and tech support on this product...
Rating: Summary: Poor Wireless Support Review: Maybe it works with some of the wireless cards out there, but who can justify purchasing one model after another from their "supported" list until you find one that really works? I purchased a Belkin F5D6020 after seeing it on their "supported" list, only to find out that not all versions of the F5D6020 are supported. Did they bother to indicated that though? No! So I'm stuck with a "supported" card which doesn't work. I'm not about to continue to purchase "supported" cards in the hope that I might just get lucky and get one that really works. They really missed the boat with their documentation and tech support on this product...
Rating: Summary: Won't work with a firewall and the music interface is bad. Review: Player installed just fine but will not work with a firewall on the server computer. Called tech support and they told me they are telling their customers to disable their firewalls. I find that absolutely amazing in this day and age. The interface for playing music will show you albums without the artists names, artists without the album names or playlists that display song titles without artist or album information. With a ripped CD collection of over 500 titles and without the ability to identify what I'm listening to I find this to be only of use for background listening. I'm a tech junkie so I'll hang on to this for the time being, but I'm certain this device will soon be overshadowed by something more capable and intuitive that provides for network security as well.
Rating: Summary: Media Junkie Review: There are many competing media server products on the market, this one is the absolute best for the price--believe me I've reviewed all the products, none work as easily as this one. You need to mate it to a computer. I have an old pentium III running at about 500Mhz, with an 80 Gig hard drive loaded with about 30 gigs of music, pictures. Once you load up the software on your PC, which is extremely easy to do, yo then search your mp3 or wma, jpeg, mpeg files. If you have a lot it will take a while to complete the search. The only problem I've encountered is that the media server wants to play the contents of cds/albums in alphabetical order. I overcame this problem by setting up wmp playlists of my albums. Playists imported from wmp work great--edit them in wmp on your computer and import them with a problem. The DVD play in great too. I have mine hooked up to a 65 inch 16:9 HDTV and it is as good as any high priced DVD from sony, denon, toshiba, jvc. The remote is a little cluncky, but you can always get a learning programmable one for a lot less than the cost a more expensive media server. The on screen display for the media server is pretty nice. The only thing it doesn't have is a screen saver--not a problem if you switch to a different video input on your tv.
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