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http://www.mpcclub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24421
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The results
Nr 1: HDI Dune BD Prime 3.0 and Base 3.0
No wonder, HDI is the most discussed and popular player at this time at MPC Club. Updates come regularly and despite a rough start at the beginning (BD / DVD drives failing), HDI managed to resolve the issues and get into our living rooms. The players are easy and well spec'd including the whole range of features we need. Only downside, as many others, network transfer speeds are still a bottleneck...
Nr 2: Syabas A-200 and C-200
Syabas hit the nail bringing A-200, a PoPCorn Hour that competes at such low price with the competition was a good move. It however also showed Syabas strength is in software and not in hardware design as, sorry to say, the A-200 does not win any "design" awards (unless judges are drunk or bribed). Never the less, both C-200 and A-200 are well accepted, fully featured and in general make the most progress by updates on a regular basis. A bit more advanced and less easy to handle compared to our Nr1, but definitely a player at the top of the list.
Nr 3: Mede8er Medx500
The first Realtek player in the list comes as no surprise either (I wonder why we did a poll as we knew the results). Mede8er might not be the shiniest and most forward moving brand, but they are in control in doing everything what they do correctly. The Mede8er Medx500 is stable since day 1 and moves along steadily at a healthy pace to ensure the stability and ease of use is maintained. A no nonsense standard player, well designed in both hardware and software. Mede8er is (if I may say so) also my little pride in the Realtek land as one of the first Realtek players that actually made me believe Realtek is a decent chip... (except for the TrueHD and DTSHD limitation)
Nr4: DViCo TViX M-6600 / N1
Even though we are surprised the ever lasting NR1 of the earlier years has dropped so far, it was expected to end behind Mede8er. There are few reasons for that too and not only to blame at DViCo. The endless bashing during the "silent year" DvICo lost it's developers was a turning point. People did not appreciate the endless wait for updates on both the 5100 / 6500 models. Though DvICo remains a very popular brand also at MPC Club, the M-6600 did not convince in pricing (twice the price of competition) and the N1 is limited by hardware (no internal HDD)... so... a mix of a lot of things, caused DviCo to sink away a little but hopefully they'll be back full force in the rest of 2010 and throughout 2011.
Nr 5: Xtreamer / Xtreamer Pro
"Why pay More" has become a familiar statement of Xtreamer everyone has heard before. Xtreamer started off really well with a very affordable streamer equal in abilities than the bigger brands. Even though there were some flaws in stability and hardware design, overall statements that made no sense and over-hyped aspects of their products, they have made a name on the market (not always in a good sense). The Xtreamer scene has moved away from MPC Club due to our "push-backs" towards Xtreamer's attitude and even though we don't like them at all after their inability to accept criticism, we must recognize their place in the list of our voters... Xtreamer's products are great as long as we look at the player side of it all, the NAS and Storage part are slow, limited and inconvenient which they hopefully will do better in the future... Great concept, poor execution...
Nr 6: HDX BD1 and Bone
HDX thrived in the years NMT's came to market. HDX as so many other "hardware manufacturers" saw their chance and grabbed it with both hands, making hardware around the software created by Syabas (OEM/ODM). Not so with the latest products and it shows... All hardware vendors had to go look for other software providers or create their own and not all made a good start. HDX has issues getting firmware to mature fast enough as it is seeking it's way in this software jungle still.The BD1 and Bone product wise are certainly great potential, but the idea of what it should become and the fact what it is, causes HDX to strand in the end of our list. We want to make sure HDX keeps going and tries to reach that goal they set for these products and continue bringing new products, be it, we expect them more mature in the future
It will leave us a far better first impression and give the product better chances against a though competition.
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http://www.mpcclub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24421
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The results
Nr 1: HDI Dune BD Prime 3.0 and Base 3.0
No wonder, HDI is the most discussed and popular player at this time at MPC Club. Updates come regularly and despite a rough start at the beginning (BD / DVD drives failing), HDI managed to resolve the issues and get into our living rooms. The players are easy and well spec'd including the whole range of features we need. Only downside, as many others, network transfer speeds are still a bottleneck...
Nr 2: Syabas A-200 and C-200
Syabas hit the nail bringing A-200, a PoPCorn Hour that competes at such low price with the competition was a good move. It however also showed Syabas strength is in software and not in hardware design as, sorry to say, the A-200 does not win any "design" awards (unless judges are drunk or bribed). Never the less, both C-200 and A-200 are well accepted, fully featured and in general make the most progress by updates on a regular basis. A bit more advanced and less easy to handle compared to our Nr1, but definitely a player at the top of the list.
Nr 3: Mede8er Medx500
The first Realtek player in the list comes as no surprise either (I wonder why we did a poll as we knew the results). Mede8er might not be the shiniest and most forward moving brand, but they are in control in doing everything what they do correctly. The Mede8er Medx500 is stable since day 1 and moves along steadily at a healthy pace to ensure the stability and ease of use is maintained. A no nonsense standard player, well designed in both hardware and software. Mede8er is (if I may say so) also my little pride in the Realtek land as one of the first Realtek players that actually made me believe Realtek is a decent chip... (except for the TrueHD and DTSHD limitation)
Nr4: DViCo TViX M-6600 / N1
Even though we are surprised the ever lasting NR1 of the earlier years has dropped so far, it was expected to end behind Mede8er. There are few reasons for that too and not only to blame at DViCo. The endless bashing during the "silent year" DvICo lost it's developers was a turning point. People did not appreciate the endless wait for updates on both the 5100 / 6500 models. Though DvICo remains a very popular brand also at MPC Club, the M-6600 did not convince in pricing (twice the price of competition) and the N1 is limited by hardware (no internal HDD)... so... a mix of a lot of things, caused DviCo to sink away a little but hopefully they'll be back full force in the rest of 2010 and throughout 2011.
Nr 5: Xtreamer / Xtreamer Pro
"Why pay More" has become a familiar statement of Xtreamer everyone has heard before. Xtreamer started off really well with a very affordable streamer equal in abilities than the bigger brands. Even though there were some flaws in stability and hardware design, overall statements that made no sense and over-hyped aspects of their products, they have made a name on the market (not always in a good sense). The Xtreamer scene has moved away from MPC Club due to our "push-backs" towards Xtreamer's attitude and even though we don't like them at all after their inability to accept criticism, we must recognize their place in the list of our voters... Xtreamer's products are great as long as we look at the player side of it all, the NAS and Storage part are slow, limited and inconvenient which they hopefully will do better in the future... Great concept, poor execution...
Nr 6: HDX BD1 and Bone
HDX thrived in the years NMT's came to market. HDX as so many other "hardware manufacturers" saw their chance and grabbed it with both hands, making hardware around the software created by Syabas (OEM/ODM). Not so with the latest products and it shows... All hardware vendors had to go look for other software providers or create their own and not all made a good start. HDX has issues getting firmware to mature fast enough as it is seeking it's way in this software jungle still.The BD1 and Bone product wise are certainly great potential, but the idea of what it should become and the fact what it is, causes HDX to strand in the end of our list. We want to make sure HDX keeps going and tries to reach that goal they set for these products and continue bringing new products, be it, we expect them more mature in the future
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