I had great hopes for this tool. It is a device that lets you play video/audio/photos from your mac. The concept is perfect; the implimentation is horrible.
It has a remote that is impossible to understand. I had to keep looking at the quick reference guide to know what the buttons do. The remote performed poorly, unless I had it sitting right in front of the unit. There is no quick skip or quick back, so when you fast forward you end up going way past, then have to rewind. The one positive was it allowed you to change the screen ratios on the fly. This was a very usefull feature. The multi-media features were pretty good. But for Video it was a poor performer. Also, the composite video required a very tight connection to work. (I think it was a bad connection on the unit).
I think they have a long way to go before they will be ready for prime time or replace my ReplayTV. I rarely give up on a device after 25 minutes, but I lost my patience with this unit very quickly. Thank goodness I bought this on amazon.com, so returns are cake.
The search continues…