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Old 16-11-2009, 4:13 PM   #1
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Advice required in choosing a media player.

I'm looking for a replacement of my zyxel dma1000 for my bedroom, I would like it to be under £100. The other things I'm looking for are
-can play natively x.264 (mp4/mkv), mpeg 1/2 and flv
-100mbps or Gbps network connection. I don't need wireless
-composite or scart output as I use a sdtv analogue tv at the moment.
-HDMI for later (but they all have these don't they?)
-High def.

I would also like bbc iplayer and dnla/upnp support as well but I can live without this.
Not bothered about internal storage but sd/sdhc card support would be nice but again not 100% needed
I am looking at the asus O!play which I have read now has DNLA support with the latest firmware, are there any other suggestion that can be source in the UK not some Chinese OEM with dodgy support.

I will many use for watching recordings from a camcorder and photos from a camera, but as said iPlayer would be nice.

Thanks in advance.
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Re: Advice required in choosing a media player.

Asus O!play or WDTV Live should do. Both units have composite and HDMI outputs.

WDTV Live doesn't support .flv container but if you use keepvid you can save .flv as .mp4 and it will play on WDTV.

Gigabit ethernet is only present on the PocornHour PCH-C200 as far as I know.

iPlayer can be sort of gotten access to through the PlayOn media server however it requires your PC to be on in order to serve media to the player, both units support UPnP/DLNA.
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