I really wish it had Netflix capabilities, as I'd be out buying it right now. That, and I wish it did Blu-ray menus, but that's a feature I can live without. Did you test to see if it streamed the TrueHD and Master Audio correctly to your receiver? If it does, I might get one now and hope Netflix support is added later.Many media players are now allowing YouTube and Netflix to be shown directly through the media players' interface, so one could expect this feature to come to the O!Player Air in the future.
Like other players, the O!Play is designed to recognize HD Audio and in some cases decode the discrete channels for your home theater. I've really never been able to get any of the set top boxes to do this consistently with all formats and codecs. I am actually satisfied with a box that can identify the HD audio and "pass" the audio to the TV or Receiver for decoding. The O!Play identified and passed one of my files successfully (w/ Dolby TrueHD), but it gave me an "unknown audio type" error on the other file.gwolfman wrote:I really wish it had Netflix capabilities, as I'd be out buying it right now. That, and I wish it did Blu-ray menus, but that's a feature I can live without. Did you test to see if it streamed the TrueHD and Master Audio correctly to your receiver? If it does, I might get one now and hope Netflix support is added later.Many media players are now allowing YouTube and Netflix to be shown directly through the media players' interface, so one could expect this feature to come to the O!Player Air in the future.
Thanks, I'm looking forward to it.Apoptosis wrote:We have a review sample of the WD TV Live Plus HD media player and it has Netflix support, so stay tuned for that review in the weeks to come.
I'll be sure to keep an eye out for this.Digital Puppy wrote:Like other players, the O!Play is designed to recognize HD Audio and in some cases decode the discrete channels for your home theater. I've really never been able to get any of the set top boxes to do this consistently with all formats and codecs. I am actually satisfied with a box that can identify the HD audio and "pass" the audio to the TV or Receiver for decoding. The O!Play identified and passed one of my files successfully (w/ Dolby TrueHD), but it gave me an "unknown audio type" error on the other file.gwolfman wrote:I really wish it had Netflix capabilities, as I'd be out buying it right now. That, and I wish it did Blu-ray menus, but that's a feature I can live without. Did you test to see if it streamed the TrueHD and Master Audio correctly to your receiver? If it does, I might get one now and hope Netflix support is added later.Many media players are now allowing YouTube and Netflix to be shown directly through the media players' interface, so one could expect this feature to come to the O!Player Air in the future.
The one file that the audio was working also stuttered really bad (was playing the Blu-ray ISO it via Ethernet connection). The file that gave me the error was a Blu-ray ISO from a local drive.
It could be that I need to re-encode a new Blu-ray for testing, but the bottom line was that we had "mixed results". :-/
You might want to wait a little bit to see what sort of firmware (or other announcements) come out in the next few weeks. There is a rumor of a USB 3.0-based ASUS box coming this summer. I think the guys saw it at Computex...we'll see if it hits the States.