The News Review:
- Gear Gallery: Versatile HD DVR Custom Coffee Pods and Lots More
- Gear Gallery: Versatile HD DVR Custom Coffee Pods and Lots More
- MRE New and Improved
- menotbug’s comments on CNET
Gear Gallery: Versatile HD DVR Custom Coffee Pods and Lots More
Wired News – Aug 28, 2007
Early reports indicate a high-hackablity quotient. TIRED The video quality of Apple content is poor especially for a device meant to work with HD screens. It doesn?t play formats like DivX or Xvid and the Apple remote is a little limited for the job. The 40-GB hard drive can?t sync large content libraries.
Gear Gallery: Versatile HD DVR Custom Coffee Pods and Lots More
Wired News – Aug 28, 2007
Images can be uberzoomed. Windows-crashing VoIP feature can be used for interoffice pranks ? fun! TIRED Included video-converting software is PC-only and finicky (converted DivX XviD Quicktime files but not WMV). No video compression options 20 FPS only. Confusing button layout combined with primitive menu system requires two hands to browse files. Can?t listen to music while reading text or viewing images. Included earphones aren?t so hot.
MRE New and Improved
PCWorld.co.nz – Aug 28, 2007
In fact one of the EVA8000’s big selling points is the number of audio and video file types it will handle including MPEG-2 and 4 and WMV flavours of HD. DivX isn’t a problem either. The manual also claims it will display still images in TIFF JPG BMP and PNG file formats but try as I might I couldn’t get this to work. Setting up the EVA8000 isn’t a complicated procedure. You simply install some software on the PC set up some media folders and from there the EVA8000 will locate the PC on the network and scan for media files. If you’re connecting via a wireless network it supports WEP WPA and WPA2 encryption.
menotbug’s comments on CNET
CNET Reviews – Aug 28, 2007
It is a home entertainment machine plugged into the TV and Stereo. It doesn’t take much to play divx movies and mp3s so it would be great to run a slim S that’s more modern and stable like 10. 5 but without all the extra features my G3 would not need. But then Leopard would still be great for modern systems and you could disable any feature you didn’t personally need for a performance boost. The way of the future is efficiency.