Netgear EVA2000

[SickBoy]

Anyone had a chance to get a Netgear EVA2000 working with their setup? This device seems to be something worth investigating. On sale at Best Buy for $100, has HDMI and analog video connectors, and can play files from attached USB or network shares as well as Hulu, Youtube, etc.

Best of all - with the HDMI connector, it seems like it could be used for turning an old LCD monitor into a tuner-less TV...

The only way it could be better would be if it could be hacked to work as a real GBPVR frontend, ala the NMT or MediaMVP.

http://www.netgear.com/Products/Entertai...A2000.aspx

[herbs]

Watch out for this device by all accounts it will only do 720p in mpeg2 the rest is in Standard def.

[stustunz]

"Browse popular video Internet video sites for news, sports, and more"
would this mean you could use the web server to setup recording from the tv guide
program /manage recordings

if thats the case then it would be a cheap option for a client

[mvallevand]

Media extenders aren't PC's and their browsing capabilities are limited and less powerful the many phones. You might be able to write a web service that interacted with some of them but there would be some tradeoffs.

If anyone wants a really cheap full HD GBPVR client on an extenders I can't see why you would not want a refurb A100 ($99) or new EGreat M34a ($139).

Martin