Originally Posted by Bob_Cat:
“I can confirm we haven't been able to add any specific software that provides streaming between the boxes or from PCs.......
... it isn't impossible for someone to write an MHEG application to do streaming from a local network and that I had modelled that concept.”
“I can confirm we haven't been able to add any specific software that provides streaming between the boxes or from PCs.......
... it isn't impossible for someone to write an MHEG application to do streaming from a local network and that I had modelled that concept.”
Streaming would have been excellent. Nice quietish box near the TV, no need to go and buy a PopcornHour product.... or yet another remote on the coffee table!
I'd settle for just FTP so that we could shift recordings to the disk before watching - a more elegant solution than USB storage sneakernet!
Kind of a shame to have USB-connected backup supported, which clearly has to take account of bandwidth issues at critical times and observe the DRM issues, but not extend that to file transfer via the network. Similarly taking all this time to refine streaming of content that somebody *else* considers I will want (with all the bells and whistles that he service will require) whilst not allowing any other form of domestic streaming or playing from remote devices.
It is rubbing the consumer's nose in it a bit.
I was always going out on a bit of a limb in the optimistic hope that the advertised ethernet port would be used in a way which was interesting to me - so I recognise that I've got few grounds for complaint.... but what is likely to be delivered is going to rub salt in the self-inflicted wound.
Originally Posted by Bob_Cat:
“This is why I haven't been to explicit as to our ambitions for the product because, in the end, once we sat down and did the work we found some of our ambitions were not achievable.”
“This is why I haven't been to explicit as to our ambitions for the product because, in the end, once we sat down and did the work we found some of our ambitions were not achievable.”
Our TV has 3 x HDMI. One for the Foxsat, one for the Blu-ray, one for the rather disappointing Netgear "Digital Entertainer". My old Pace Twin Freeview PVR is not much used now. I'm holding out for the H264 HD capable Freeview PVRs, at which point we will be out of HDMI connectors on the TV. I guess that for many the likely mix will be a) disk player b) sat or terrestrial PVR c) domestic streamer or game PC.
IMHO there's a place in the market for combi devices to reduce the clutter and HDMI count. Some manufacturers go down the PVR + DVD/BluRay some may go down the PVR/media-player. I'm concerned that whatever software we see for the Foxsat-HDR may be the last for that product as enough time has gone by that you are probably looking to newer products now e.g. Freeview HD PVR or something with more features like Humax's iCord products that I've looked at in the past.
