| 76 of 78 people found the following review helpful  Internet streaming and standard def playback is fine, but users wanting hi-def playback should look elsewhere, By Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: NETGEAR Digital Entertainer Live (Black) (Personal Computers) Traditionally known for their routers and network devices, Netgear offically entered the growing home media player market this September with the Digital Entertainer Live. After owning the superb but ethernet-less Western Digital WD TV HD Media Player, I was looking for a device that could play all the 720p/1080i/p MKV videos directly off my D-Link DNS-323 2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure - NAS server and D-Link DNS-321. I didn't want to have to copy files off the network onto USB hard drives then walk them over to my media player just to play them on my TV. After testing this device for several hours, I am disappointed and can say that the EVA2000 is definitely not ready for prime... Read more 20 of 21 people found the following review helpful  Makes Internet streaming easy, lots of content, By This review is from: NETGEAR Digital Entertainer Live (Black) (Personal Computers) This product is great for my needs. I don't require the "ultimate" in streaming power; rather, I watch a lot of stuff on the Internet. The Digital Entertainer Live is perfect for this. In all the time I have been using it, it hasn't locked up or stalled even once (honestly) and streams equally well from my network and the Internet (admittedly, I have a super fast 15 mbps connection.) It detects all of my videos with no problem, I didn't even have to "scan" my network for files, it just found them - I was sharing them from a few different NAS devices. So it was virtually plug and play, not something you find very often.There's a huge selection of Internet channels you can watch; I especially enjoy the Joost channels, as there are many full television shows available. I'll admit I've wasted many hours poking around in YouTube, too! The search feature works better than I expected and quickly finds what I'm looking for. You can even hook up a USB drive if you don't want to... Read more 15 of 15 people found the following review helpful Just ok.. it works.., Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: NETGEAR Digital Entertainer Live (Black) (Personal Computers) This unit does what it says: shows your media and some Internet content on your TV. So pretty much all of its "specifications" are its pros.But I'd like to talk about its cons: Navigation/user interface is not much different than that of "flashback to the past" gaming console toys - that is, very primitive. It is usually just plain gray text over black background. My initial disappointment was however, the poor quality of display. Unlike the menu screens of a DVD, the screens displayed by this unit are very blurry - the same way your laptop would look when attached to the TV through S-video connection. The video output of this device is not optimized for TV. I am very convinced that this story wouldn't change when it is plugged into an HDTV through HDMI - previous reviews already mentioned how it is not really HD ready. This box is pretty much the same thing as the VuNow box, offering various streaming Internet TV broadcasts. It does have a large... Read more |
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