New media player: Netgear NeoTV 550
by Volker Weber
The son of EVA is here: a brand new NeoTV 550. Immediate benefits over the EVA9150: no fan, no spinning disk, much smaller, support for DTS in the box. Speaking of formats, this is what NeoTV supports:
- File formats: ISO (Bluray, DVD), BDMV (Bluray, BDMV, BDM), BDAV (Bluray M2TS), IFO (DVD), Matroska (MKV, MKA), Windows Media (WMV, WMA, ASF, DVR-MS), AVI (AVI, DIVX, XVID), MPEG-PS, MPEG-TS (MPG), MPEG-4 (QuickTime, MP4, M4V, M4A), MPEG Audio (MP3), FLAC, WAVE (WAV), JPEG, TIFF, PNG, BMP
- Video formats/codecs: AVC (H.264), VC-1, MPEG-4 Visual (e.g. XVID, DIVX), MPEG-2 Video, MPEG Video, H.263, H.261, Windows Media Video
- Audio formats/ codecs: AC-3 (Dolby Digital), Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, DTS, DTS HD HR, DTS HD MA, DTS ES, MPEG-4 Audio, MPEG Audio (e.g. MP3), AAC, Windows Media Audio 9, WMA9 Pro, FLAC, (L)PCM
- Subtitle formats: All Bluray subtitle formats, Internal UTF-8, SSA, ASS, ASCII, SUB/IDX (MKV), Internal PGS (M2TS), Internal SPU (DVD), External .SRT, .SMI, .SSA, .ASS, .TXT (MKV, AVI, WMV, MP4), External .SUB/.IDX (MKV, AVI, WMV)
It's way uglier than the EVA, but I am not much concerned about that. I only wonder when Netgear will hire a UX designer. I tell you a bit more about the device once I used it for a little bit.
Comments
OMG: I thought the picture showed the *back* of the device with it's ugly layout and connectors, but I now realise it's the front ...
Eva Quirinius, 2010-12-17
Hallo Volker,
hast Du schon ein paar Erfahrungswerte sammeln können?
Wäre ja ggf. eine gute Alternative zum neuen Apple-TV...
Manfred Dillmann, 2010-12-29
