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Loading ...DVDs, eh? What a waste of space. You watch them, then you have to store them on a shelf or in a bucket. Build up a big collection of the damned discs and say goodbye to your collection of porcelain cat figurines; you’ll have a rack full of movies instead. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to get a film on-demand, in full DVD quality, without needing to sacrifice your china kitties in the process?
Well, MatrixStream might just be your saviour, you feline-obsessed delinquent, with their MyTVPal set-top box. Plug the Apple iTV-alike into your broadband connection and enjoy a variety of 720×480 resolution video, replete with AC3 sound, with no waiting around for it to download or even needing to go near your PC. There’s a downside, though; while they’re aiming for “up to 100,000 DVD quality and High Definition video titles and producing a channel line-up that will range from 700 to 1000 plus channels”, right now they best of their boasts amounts to 100 movie trailers, free to watch prior to the subscription service kicking off sometime this month.
If you’re curious, you can try a free software player available on their site; it’ll be interesting to see quite how many titles they have on offer come launch (and how many of those titles are bland dross that you wouldn’t make your worst dog watch) and what price they set for subscription.
MyTVPal [via eHomeUpgrade]
This will only work if your broadband can support it. You need roughly 12-13 Mbps to stream HD content. Most dont have this yet. Its a good idea but its already in place in many different products.
Any PC is ready and able to do what this machine does. The fact that they dont offer a price scares me. It seems like it will be over priced for what it does, praying on the ignorant consumer that doesnt know that their home PC can do the same thing.
Take the Hannibal from http://TVease.net. It comes with free internet television also. Not only that but it has Tivo functions that allow you to pause and rewind and even record live cable television. It displays all the way up to 1080i, has 7.1 digital audio, and has a 18X speed DVD burner. You can take what you have downloaded from the internet and burn it to disk with your remote control, which is included. The Hannibal only costs 499. I think that this My TVpal will cost close to that and offer less than a quarter of the functions.
No thank you, for my money, I will stick with a Hannibal from TVease.net