RE: Review of HD1000 at Digital Producer. (Notentirely positive)

I have looked at a bunch of these convergence devices. This is the first one
that actually out preformed its official feature set. The only issues I have
with the unit are the remote and the lack of a serial or network protocol.
Yes I know about ecp but screen scrapping is not my idea of a protocol and
the majority of home integrators are not up to the task of scripting a Linux
box via telnet. If they were we would have had the Jetson home last century.

 

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From: Bart Harrison [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 8:19 PM
To: Roku Tech Mail List and Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [Roku-tech] Review of HD1000 at Digital Producer. (Notentirely
positive)

 

Charlie White has been known to review components/equipment without regards
as to whether or not it's the current software rev or even the current
hardware version.  I site a Pinnacle CineWave review he did a couple years
ago based on old software and even older (dis)information.  In the case of
the HD-1000, publicly passing judgement on a complete product line based on
his experience with one obviously defective individual unit is thoroughly
unprofessional in my opinion.  Maybe there are a few bad ones out there, but
that's a quality control issue not a design problem (as he implies) !  I've
worked with at-least six or eight different HD-1000 boxes and I've never
seen one that was the least bit unstable.  I push these critters to the
limit too, often playing 30 to 40 megabit 1080i HD materials sometimes for
days and weeks at a time.  My HD-1000's have been completely stable and
reliable.  Sorry (about yours) Charlie !  Why don't you return that
defective unit for a healthy replacement (there is a 30 day
return/replacement policy) and do an honest review of the product ?  Or is
it just more fun (more lucrative) to trash a piece of equipment just because
you're in the position to do so ???

Bart

P.S.  I'm cancelling my subscription to the DMN newsletter effective today
!!!

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MPA - The HD Suite 

HD Editing Systems, Consulting, Production & Post, Exhibition & Distribution

www.hdsuite.com <http://www.hdsuite.com/>  
954-894-1221



At 11:44 AM 5/28/2004 +1200, you wrote:



http://www.digitalproducer.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=25831-0

The reviewer clearly had alot of difficulty with the unit crashing, and also
commented that the response times were very slow, and that the interface
left much to be desired.

I haven't yet played with an HD1000 myself, so I'm not in a position to
comment on the issues raised here.  Is this maybe an earlier release of the
OS, or are these known bugs that are being addressed?

I'm still keen to get one of these for my clients, based solely on the
screensaver feature, and from having read this reveiw it seems the
screensaver is not affected by the problems the reviewer had.

Cheers,
Hamish


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