could be the ultimate digital media player ??

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#20734 4-Apr-2008 11:15

hi guys

i been looking for ages for a media player there r a few around mediagate and a few others how ever they got limited support to video formats

i have found this one supports nearly every video format especially .mkv h.264 also has a bult in HDTV turner (still trying to find out if it be compatible with freeview HD ) and does alot of other things etc heres the links to two models

what i really want to know does anyone sell them here

links : http://www.genesys.net.au/product_i...935fa510ca70e05

link 2 : http://www.tvix.co.kr/Eng/products/HDM6500A.aspx

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#121016 4-Apr-2008 11:29

This looks really good - exactly what I was looking when I built my HTPC on the Mac mini plus Windows Home Server.

I've contacted the Australian distributors to see if we can get a review unit and test with our New Zealand Freeview|HD here.

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#121020 4-Apr-2008 11:39

They are very cool and have had some good reviews in Australia.

I highly doubt that the DVB-T tuner would work, in part because Aussie uses 7MHz vs our 8MHz stepping and secondly they don't list any AAC-LATM audio support.

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#121072 4-Apr-2008 14:11

They look goopd and that 4130 was what i was after but according to the NZ importer http://www.iway.co.nz/products/28/TVIX.html

They still only have the old items that they had last year dispite saying that they would have the 4100 and later ones in February 2008..

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#121080 4-Apr-2008 14:38

i am thinking of importing one from the u s , from here http://www.tvixbox.com/ i have been been contacted by there sales team r happy to ship one over however they did say they have got ATSC turners (http://www.paradiso-design.net/ATSC_DVB-T_ISDB-T_en.html) in them which freeview HD dosent support since they r for the u s market ...importing from Australia might have the dvb-t turner in them even then it still might not work ...but dont know about this importing thing never done it before and looks risky....

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#121261 5-Apr-2008 10:26

Well, Genesys - like many other companies - didn't even bother replying to my query. So I wouldn't recommend buying from them.

In my view companies have the obligation to at least acknowledge they have received a request, if they have a "Contact Us" form in their site.

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#121263 5-Apr-2008 10:47

It appears to use the same Sigma processor as the PCH, or at least sibbling of, so it may also be troubled by a lack of HE-AAC support. Otherwise a good looking box. I would be surprised if it was troubled by our 8MHz channelling, 8MHz is by far the more common in Europe, and pretty much every tuner chipset/module supports 6-8MHz, only some of the very early tuner modules were limited.

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#121785 7-Apr-2008 14:35

i got a reply back from Genesys said they will not supply into NZ .anyone else here trying to source one

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