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* Posts by Afx

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Netflix vs Lovefilm

Afx
Meh

Signed up for Lovefilm instant on Sunday, cancelled today. There just wasn't enough worthwhile content, with at least 50% being B movie crap. I didn't expect up to date blockbusters but surely there are enough quality older movies, that they wouldn't have to resort to the kind of rubbish they put on there.

To be fair there were a few very good films on there and some quality lesser known ones, but they were few and far between. The one upside was that i had it running on my sony blu ray player, and the user experience was actually quite good. If they can improve the quality of their offerings then i will consider re-subscribing.

As for Netflix, well i'd love to try it out, but the only device i have, aside from my PC, that supports it is a Wii, and i really dont fancy using that. I know Sony blu ray players/tv's in the US support netflix, so hopefully we can get that support over here too.

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Ten... Freeview HD recorders

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Humax HDR Fox T2

For this whinging about the lack of choice and features, you might want to grab the humax and keep an eye on the forum at:

www.hummy.tv

There is already an application to decrypt HD recordings and save them wherever you wish. With the modified firmware you can already run any number of apps on the box. A web interface has been implemented and i believe they are in the process of altering the available TV portal page to add more streaming content

Heres the link to the website for the modified firmware:

http://hummypkg.org.uk/

In an ideal world i guess all this stuff would work out the box, but it's pretty straighforward to install this firmware and it adds a lot to what is already a very good STB.

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Iomega iConnect Wireless Data Station

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Good...but not that good

Ive already had one of these devices and since sent it back from whence it came(amazon)

Like the reviewer i was less than impressed with the firmware, support is somewhat lacking too.

If you want a cheap way of sharing a bunch of USB drives on your network then this really is a very good way of doing, it feels well made and it looks the part too, The wireless N aspect is particularly good.

Unfortunately its the extra bits that go along with this that just dont work very well. Printer sharing is rather hit and miss, with lots of problems being reported on the support forums. As mentioned in the review, the bittorrent aspect is utterly useless, I tried multiple torrents from a lot of different sources and whilst one file did actually start to download, the actual page where the status of your torrents is supposed to show, never actually updated, the only way i could see anything was happening was to view the increasing file size on my harddrive. And as i say this was the only one that even showed signs of working. I dont know if this device has the oomph to run a fully featured torrent package, but many devices seem to manage to run the likes of transmission.

Basically if you want a nice simple way of sharing USB drives wirelessly on your network then this is a pretty good choice. If you want some of the more "deluxe" features then you probably want to fork out for a more expensive device.

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