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Ellonex Artisan
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Does anybody have any experience of the Ellonex Artisan?
The idea of grouping all TV and PC functions is quite attractive. I have dvd recorder, cd recorder, dvd Player (the recorder does not play JPEG), Sky+ and a computer. I'd love to be able to consolidate into one box. Is the £999 price tag justified?
And has anyone seen a review of this product?
The idea of grouping all TV and PC functions is quite attractive. I have dvd recorder, cd recorder, dvd Player (the recorder does not play JPEG), Sky+ and a computer. I'd love to be able to consolidate into one box. Is the £999 price tag justified?
And has anyone seen a review of this product?
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Personally however I cant get round the idea of having PC as the centre of a "decent" home cinema/ sound setup. I am sure this isnt rational and in time I will be looking at getting one but it wont be in the next couple of years.
I was playing with one at Comet today. Very impressed i must say, especially with the ease of use, your grandma could use it, and that's not a joke either!
Nice and fast twin DVB tuners coupled with excellent picture and ratio switching.
Fast P4 HT processor to decode 1080p footage, and a colossal 300GB HD, though the RAM was a bit mean at 512MB. This particular model has DVI socket hooked up to an LG 37" LCD with stunning PC screen results. Crisp and sharp, and even if you want to go super hi res to support your proper HD TV ie 1920 by 1080 pixels this PC will support that resolution.
Sound outputs is pretty decent with a set of phono's, Tos link and coax. To cap it off it also has wireless internet and keyboard.
This is the future... now.
I have two words for you.
BUY ONE!
I agree with you... as I said in my original post it is a personal issue that I have with them.
If my projector was up and running I may well consider one as the scaling options with the upper end media centre PCs is truly outstanding and is a much cheaper option than using dedicated scalers.
Whilst they are certainly quieter than a normal PC one of my issues with them is the fan noise that you get... again not as much as an issue for projector users who have the projector fan noise anyway... but compared to my normal DVD player & AVR it is considerably more noisy.
I have started to join the technology revolution in that I have a file server with all my mp3s which are accessable from all rooms of the house - though not used much in my lounge as this is where my stereo and CDs are living and after spending too much on the stereo I dont want to limit its capabilities by using compressed media.... though in the tv room/ home cinema it is used a fair bit (as well as bedroom/ kitchen/ bathroom etc)