External media centre HD/Divx HD to connect to TV

daveg

I must have been living under a rock as I had not heard about the new rage of external DivX and Media Center hard drives. Has anyone set one up? I've been burning DivX's onto DVD from my store on my 320GB external HD to play on my DVD player :rolleyes:

I'm thinking about getting a media center one such as this one on SVP. Can anyone tell me how this would work? Does it actually have a copy of (windows) media center on it?

5h4mr0(k

I have a Mediagate MG-35
http://www.airlinktek.com/english/prod_mg35.htm
From what I've read it's the same box.

It's a great yoke. It will work with a hard drive in it, if you just want to stream from the network.
It has it's own operating system on it (seems to be Linux, and there are people developing their mods and skins for it).

I put a 320GB hard drive in it. Well worth the money.

daveg

5h4mr0(k wrote:

I have a Mediagate MG-35
http://www.airlinktek.com/english/prod_mg35.htm
From what I've read it's the same box.

It's a great yoke. It will work with a hard drive in it, if you just want to stream from the network.
It has it's own operating system on it (seems to be Linux, and there are people developing their mods and skins for it).

I put a 320GB hard drive in it. Well worth the money.

Hi. Thanks for the info. So you connect the box to the TV via composite cables and turn tv to AV. Turn on the HD and it boots to Linux? Does it take long to boot? It is (the box) loud with the fan etc? Whats the picture quality like?

5h4mr0(k

daveg wrote:

Hi. Thanks for the info. So you connect the box to the TV via composite cables and turn tv to AV. Turn on the HD and it boots to Linux? Does it take long to boot? It is (the box) loud with the fan etc? Whats the picture quality like?

Boot is pretty quick. 15 -20 seconds maybe.... haven't timed it. Then it asks if you want to use the hard disk or the network. Menu system is like most of the media players.

Pretty quite. Low hum. Wouldn't notice it once there's some other sound source.

Picture is excellent. Haven't tried it hooked up to a HD screen.

Advantage of the network connection is that you can add you're latest DivX without having to disconnect everything. Disadvantage is that it can be slow, so initially I dumped everything on to it using the USB 2.0 connector.

daveg

5h4mr0(k wrote:

Boot is pretty quick. 15 -20 seconds maybe.... haven't timed it. Then it asks if you want to use the hard disk or the network. Menu system is like most of the media players.

Pretty quite. Low hum. Wouldn't notice it once there's some other sound source.

Picture is excellent. Haven't tried it hooked up to a HD screen.

Advantage of the network connection is that you can add you're latest DivX without having to disconnect everything. Disadvantage is that it can be slow, so initially I dumped everything on to it using the USB 2.0 connector.

Thanks for the info.

5h4mr0(k

The Freecom version is up on iBood today!
http://www.ibood.com/site/eu/iboodSpecs.php
seems to be good price at €199 for the 320GB

daveg

Nabbed one. Thanks 5h4mr0(k.