Re: Momitsu DVD-V880N Networked DVI DVD Player

Thanks so much. Just what I wanted to know.

I think I will pick one up. I'll also take it over to the media guys if
I can reproduce the problem you describe. 

Ping me offline and I'll keep you posted.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Turtle Beach Audiotron User Forum
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tony
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 1:20 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AT] Momitsu DVD-V880N Networked DVI DVD Player

I know where your going with this and I can answer most of your
questions.
First let me start by saying that I am a audiotron owner too. At this
time
there is no replacement for it that ive found. Well maybe the
squeezebox.

With that said these devices (networked dvd players) are fantastic.
First
It's a full blown up converting dvd player Ite IO will up convert ALL
content that's thrown at it to 1080I over component cabling same with
the
Momitsu over dvi but may be limited with copy protected dvd (macro
vision).
That in itself at this price point makes these players a steal.
The software "the standard server" takes about 30 megs of system memory
and
as far as I can see so far has not effected the performance of my pc at
all
even while working with 8 apps open and running.

Yes the device can only be controlled with the remote and your tv like
any
other dvd player. I am running the server side app on 3 pc's pointing to
different media all over the house. (I have different server serving
different things in different parts of the house).

If you can map a drive to your media the server app can and will see it.
To stream music, pictures and slideshows, and movies the server app must
be
running somewhere. The server app is the gateway to the dvd player it's
the
software that controls the stream to the dvd player so it must be there.

You can add media to any of the folders that the server app is
"watching"
and it will show up in the menu screens on the dvd player. No indexing
or re
indexing necessary. There is a second piece of software a "advancer
server
app" in beta now that will transcode video to the dvd player that its
not
accustom to seeing meaning If you've got a video with some strange codec
and
windows media player can play it then so can the dvd player. So for that
software it would be using the powere of the pc to transcode the video
on
the fly and send it to the dvd player.

As for audio the dvd player has analog and digital audio on all the time
so
sending the same audio to two sources say the theater and zone 2 at the
same
time is possible and a handy feature.

The Onscreen menus are not all that well for audio navigation of a large
library (I have over 14000 songs and would not use this as a replacement
for
my audiotron just yet).

Yes this and all first gen networked dvd players have bugs but if this
is
where the industry is going then all I can say is wow.

And oh the wife (waf) loves it too.

Bob if ya do buy one of these can you bring it to work and get the guys
in
the media dept to figure out why HD-WMV stuff wont play right?

Enjoy.
Tony Lagotta
Total Confusion LLC.