EGreat M34a - over here in NZ

[psycik]

Problably relevant to Jaggy, but Martin will know as well. Will the EGreat work with our freeview|HD files? A new distributor has opened up here (http://www.aiwa.co.nz) and so may look at one of these to replace the A100 in the bedroom, as I'm getting sick of waiting for Syabas to add HE-AAC-LC audio support.


And I assume that I can run the gbpvr interface as I currently do with the A100?

[sub]

I'm fairly sure the EGreat is pretty much the same as the PCH A100 in this respect, and unable to play the HE-AAC audio.

[sub]

Yesterday a courier delivered a sample Hauppauge MVP-HD device. This does play our HE-AAC audio.

Obviously no GB-PVR client at this stage though.

[psycik]

hmm, I'm on the lookout for something (probably in the NMT range) that will take the GB interface (can't get by without it), but support our audio as well. With 3 DVB-T tuners and only 1 DVB-S it's getting hard to schedule stuff. I'm just really lucky that tv3 has the AC3.

Was hoping the Egreat would do it.. The C200 I think it a bit too "loungeish" whereas the Popcorn etc are nice and small, good for the bedroom.

Do we know a price point for the MVP-HD?

[mvallevand]

The C-200 won't support mvpmcx2 either, and probably never will but it does support HE-AAC The EGreat M34a is very similar to the A110 hardware much better than the A100, and it suffers the same limitation of the microcode not having HE-AAC hardware support. All NMT's are fully capable of supporting it as shown on several other units with the same chip but I guess NZ, Brazil and Norway aren't big enough markets to even get a response these days.

That being said mvpmcx2 would need to be rebuilt for the new firmware and I don't even have the required toolkits.

Martin

[psycik]

Well thats a pisser. I was intending to get the C200 and using it for a lounge solution if I put my gbpvr server in a cupboard.....just as well I asked.

So maybe I'll need to see where the HD MVP goes....

[mvallevand]

I agree, I would love to support the C-200 it would make a perfect addition to my media centre with GBPVR support.

Martin

[Jaggy]

Are they for real???

At $266, that is $85 less than I paid for mine.....OK so that included freight but!!!

[psycik]

orly?? its cheaper. I was figuring is was about what you'd pay..when you took NZD$ - USD$ and freight..

[Jaggy]

A quick look at their site today & all the prices seem to have gone now & all it says under price is "contact us" for everything I looked at.

I have been asked to get 3 NMT's for my brother so I was rather interested in that price but I wasn't born yesterday & I like to check out a business before I put my money down (so to speak) & I am a bit concerned with their contact details "Aiwa NZ Ltd, PO Box 303134, North Harbour, North Shore City 0751, Phone: +64 21 921193" as there is no physical address listed & isn't that phone number a mobile phone?