Freecom Network MediaPlayer-450 WLAN

*****

Reviewed by JF-reviews via on 29 Sep 2008

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In short - this doesnt do what it says on the tin

Wireless Networking is poor - and difficult to setup.   Mac support is awful

The manual is useless

It doesnt play .mkv files - currently the most common source of HD content - so the 1080p output is pointless

To be fair - I did eventually get it setup to do much of what I want - but Im reasonably technical - and it has taken several weeks.    If you want something to plug and play - this isnt it.   For me it has turned out to be jus a very expensive 500GB drive.

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conoroneill

Conor O'Neill at 10:30 - 29 Sep, 2008 said:

How can they expect average people to figure this stuff out. We currently use MythTV for capture and a wirelessly connected XBox running XBMC for playing. It stutters on some mkv files but overall works brilliantly. However, I'd never recommend it to non-technical people.

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