Comments on: Netgear Unveils its TV-Torrent Player

By: Escorts360

Escorts360 — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:33:04 +0000

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* Charbax

It does support WiFi using any cheap USB WiFi dongle.

By: firehouse

firehouse — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:38:45 +0000

yes, these are superior machines.

can checkout more of such players at hdtvplayer.info

some other players are: suno, egreat, elektron etc.

By: Nickl

Nickl — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:45:14 +0000

Yes it does (for all of those). It is prety much the holy grail of media players ATM. There are ppl working on getting USB TV recieves working with it, and once that works it's a PVR as well

By: Kolekt

Kolekt — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 06:11:09 +0000

I was being sarcastic towards other people complaining that there are already similar products on the market and this is nothing new or interesting. I think it's a great development by NetGear personally, if it works well.

By: Rekrul

Rekrul — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:24:55 +0000

Brian, stick to downloading from sites like Rapidshare and from Usenet newsgroups and you’ll never receive any DMCA notices no matter what you download.

By: Late Again

Late Again — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:48:46 +0000

1st, was that really needed? 2nd is that it IS a bit high price for a limited piece of hardware. I could (and have) set up a suitable media box with wireless and all the functionality for less than $50 using old second hand hardware, but more to the point is that there are plenty who couldn't simply because they're afraid to open up a computer's case. These are the people that this type of product targets, and certainly a noble (likely profitable as well) endeavor for them. It's just a bit pricey for what it is.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:08:46 +0000

I got 2 DMCA within the same week last year, I am NEVER downloading illegal again, it is just not worth it, I was even using Peerguardian when it happened.

By: piratebar

piratebar — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:18:36 +0000

i liked tversity…i used the flash version though so i could use the internet browser on wii…but the cache filled up before the end of a movie :(

By: Charbax

Charbax — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:04:10 +0000

Please post here which other hardware company is making a similar product.

A product that downloads and streams all media formats from the Internet, including Youtube HD, BitTorrent downloads on USB storage and live webtv stations and then outputs this on a HDTV with HDMI or to an SDTV using S-video. And at between $99 and $199 retail.

By: Kolekt

Kolekt — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:28:05 +0000

I wait for the day when hardware manufacturers say:

"we wont be producing new specfically designed hardware as;

1) Other manufacturers already make a similar product
2) With some knowledge and modification existing products can be made to do the same"

The reason why this may be more newsworthy than other products on the market is that Netgear is a mainstream hardware company which many people will be aware of, the other companies are either completely unknown to the man on the street or only regionally known. Netgear is an internationally known brand.

By: just me

just me — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:44:11 +0000

off topic here, TF, why do u have an advert for utorrent which is one where u have to pay for it?? i thought u were here to alert us to scams not promote them.

By: Snyke

Snyke — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:14:31 +0000

Exactly my point ^^

By: rofl

rofl — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:28:19 +0000

sux to be u loser. ahaha. suck it troll.

By: Snyke

Snyke — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:20:47 +0000

Well, not really, browsers that support the noscript-tag will simply show the old wordpress-style comments, ID syncs them to your WP instance.

By: Roze

Roze — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:01:47 +0000

You posted this same comment in the next article as well. Besides the fact that it is not relevant to the article, it is more indicative of the fact that it is not worth it to support the MAFIAA. Going against the MAFIAA and downloading and uploading is very well worth it.

By: Roze

Roze — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:00:13 +0000

It requires javascript. It is completely javascript-dependent.

By: Hamd

Hamd — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:50:05 +0000

Lpm?

By: Gakman

Gakman — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:48:41 +0000

Geez people, stop bagging netgears technology. Obviously all people here are aware of torrents and downloading tv shows. What they are doing is reaching out to a new audience and thus increasing popularity and in long term, legality, of what we already do. As of now, downloading tv shows, movies, whatever – is not legal, with small steps like netgear has done here shows hope for the future of internet downloading and torrents, most of all, it puts the end (which is nearer than you think) further away.

By: Charbax

Charbax — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:20:33 +0000

This box starts at $99 for the SD s-video version. Are you comparin that with an X86 based HTPC?

By: Charbax

Charbax — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:19:04 +0000

Does popcorn hour connect to the internet with Ethernet or WiFi to download or stream videos directly from sources such as Youtube and others in up to HD quality?

By: Charbax

Charbax — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:17:26 +0000

Do any of these boxes cost $99 and stream Youtube, Dailymotion, vsocial, webtv and other sources directly from the Internet without needing of a computer in your home? Cause that is what you can do with this box.

By: Charbax

Charbax — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:15:41 +0000

It supports all codecs, includin H264, Mpeg4, DivX, Mpeg2, up to 720p, though they are still working on the firmware.

By: Charbax

Charbax — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:13:57 +0000

It does support WiFi using any cheap USB WiFi dongle.

By: Charbax

Charbax — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:12:06 +0000

This box is the same as the VuNow Vn1000HD which I reviewed two days ago at http://techvideoblog.com/reviews/vunow-vn1000hd-h... It actually starts at $99 at http://vunow.com It supports WiFi with a WiFi dongle. It hopefully will support 720p Youtube HD and mkv files but not currently with the latest firmware. But they are totally working on improving the firmware. This box is much better then a HTPC cause it's much cheaper. Starts at $99 for the SD S-video version. No Intel or Microsoft powered computer required in your home. And yup it supports BitTorrent and automatic BitTorrent RSS downloads.

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By: Gubatron

Gubatron — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:41:32 +0000

@Ernesto:
Where did you get the info that it has a built in bittorrent client? I can't seem to find any reference on the product page.

By: Rekrul

Rekrul — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:56:09 +0000

These types of devices seem designed for less tech-savvy people, but those are exactly the sort of people who won’t understand why they can’t just watch BitTorrent movies and shows. Sure, they can in theory, but what happens when what they want to watch only has 1 seed and 2 peers? It’ll take several days to download. Or what if the file is packed with Rar? What if the torrent points to a private tracker?

Of course, for the stuff that it does work on, they’ll probably end up getting in trouble with their ISP when they see that they can watch movies that are still in the theater. Clueless users will think that because the device is legal, all the movies they can access through it must be legal as well.

As for NetGear’s reliability; I’ve had one of their older NICs in my system for the past few years and it’s still working fine.

By: dave

dave — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:46:57 +0000

is this flash or something? because i can no longer see comments or make comments from my phone, quite disappointing really

By: blaa

blaa — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:23:53 +0000

(off topic) where is everybody?? TF used to (.. let's say a year ago) have pages and pages of comments on every article before I even got to reading them.. and now there's like 45… 56… etc.. so, anyone know what happened and where everybody is?

By: RozeIsAFascist

RozeIsAFascist — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:25:58 +0000

You mean if it was free? Shame you cant download hardware huh you freetard.

By: NubCakes

NubCakes — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:19:23 +0000

good question and i couldn't find any info regarding this on the netgear site.

IMO your far better off buying a Popcorn Hour A100 or a MYKA as they will play any codec you can throw at it and they are similar priced. But do your own research of course

By: EZEE

EZEE — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:12:47 +0000

Hey r3dsk1n,
Thanks for that awesome link, been out of it so long i had no idea the old xbox could be softmodded, i guess when you have a chipped box most people dont read up on softmodding.

I went for the solder-less option of the xenium ice myself, but with a softmod the fear of soldering too has been neutralized!

well, better late then never, am gonna give that a try for sure… on a pals box ;)

Thanks again!

Cheers!

By: Gss

Gss — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:06:10 +0000

lets face it, if it weren't for piracy, everyone would probably be paying $40 for a DVD….LONG LIVE THEPIRATEBAY

By: snausage

snausage — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:42:22 +0000

tversity !! + xbox / xbox 360 / ps3 / anything you have add a little utorrent and rss never look back at it again( except to watch of course)

By: Ernesto

Ernesto — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:29:03 +0000

here: http://tinyurl.com/6wppf9

By: r3dsk1n

r3dsk1n — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:07:39 +0000

You don't even need a modchip. http://www.xboxscene.com/xbox-tutorials.php?p=151...

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:54:13 +0000

I had an old home server which i just dumped in the tip, it would of had been perfect for streaming media, It was slow at AMD 1.1Ghz 256MB Ram, However it did overnight torrents a dream with only 1 Fan it kept the noise to a minimum. http://burn-blue.com

By: r0ck

r0ck — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:11:00 +0000

What no hard-drive? Screw it then. This thing at least has to have a USB port to attach an external drive or it’s practically useless for more than single TV show episodes that barely fit into whatever memory that thing has. If you don’t need HD mod an old Xbox. XBMC has evolved into a full blown media center in the last years. Other than that I’m still waiting for an open source, linux driven, hard disk enabled, TV Torrent client running, silent and affordable set-top box with built-in wireless.

But also looking for a girl that doesn’t complain and is a good cocksucker. Which one’ll be first :P

By: IneterNats

IneterNats — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:46:14 +0000

so plug in an external harddrive like 500gb and transfer it between your pc and this, and you are done.

would be nice if it had wifi, and just tie it into your pc though…

By: InterNats

InterNats — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:45:21 +0000

then why are you here? eat a dick.

By: avg Joe

avg Joe — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:39:42 +0000

what codecs are compatible?

By: U.H.A.

U.H.A. — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:31:54 +0000

fail
wait
EPIC FAIL
and piracy is what? Must be a good thing to sue innocent disabled hospitalized people on the world and reality you exist on you FRAKING FAGGIT MAN. Only people that dont p2p are really gay

By: NubCakes

NubCakes — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:01:44 +0000

"For those who have a large library of video files downloaded already, the Internet TV Player also supports external USB drives. Plug it in, and all your videos will be available on your TV instantly, easy as that."

Really TF? I couldn't find any infomation at the official site regarding codecs or a summary of the basic capabilites. So unless I missed something that may well not be the case and you should edit the article.

Also how about writing about products that exist now such as:

Popcorn Hour A100
MYKA
HDX 900 NMT Media Player
iSTAR Mini NMT Player
DVICO TVIX HD M-7000A
MZK-NAS01SG
Dune HD Ultra

…seeing as these are retailing right now.

By: NubCakes

NubCakes — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:57:31 +0000

Doesn't support Bittorrent but a great little device that plays anything you throw at it – up to 1080p.

By: NubCakes

NubCakes — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:56:33 +0000

It's not the first you twat – there's already multiple solutions that have been out for a long period that have the same functionality. Really, you might wanna do a little basic research before posting….

Some hardware players supporting Bittorrent:
Popcorn Hour A100
MYKA
HDX 900 NMT Media Player
iSTAR Mini NMT Player
DVICO TVIX HD M-7000A
MZK-NAS01SG
Dune HD Ultra

And really I doubt these are a "good" way to introduce more people to Bittorrent: if you can't work out how to setup Utorrent then I doubt these will be any easier.

By: NubCakes

NubCakes — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:50:08 +0000

There's already products (eg. Popcorn Hour, WDTV) that seem superior – based on the little infomation available for this device.

By: King

King — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:36:42 +0000

WD HD Media Player

By: fuckyou

fuckyou — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:17:30 +0000

I WANNA SUCKLE MY OWN BUTT, BUT I CANT REACH SO I LICK MY MOMS ASSHOLE INSTEAD. AND PIRACY IS UBER GAY

By: piratebarn

piratebarn — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:01:47 +0000

....to be serious though....XBOX Media Centre is great. It has YouTube support and loads of nifty scripts you can add. For the XBOX and all the preperation to install the OS it cost me $50US. One of the scripts on xmbc-scripts.com is even a torrent back end (so you can control d/ls from your lounge. Though if you want a SMB transfer you need to leave the computer on otherwise FTP the media to XBMC's 4GB HDD. You can even buy a remote for it. It can do stuff this Netgear/Popcorn'/Myka rubbish can't do like stream photos and music. Much cheaper than a netbook eh? http://www.productwiki.com/microsoft-xbox/article... http://code.google.com/p/xbmc-torrrent-controller...