Netgear EVA700 Media Player - €69.95

Zynks

Today (Saturday) only. Got two for myself

http://www.ibood.com/site/eu/ibood.php

Delivery is €12.50 for the 1st one and free for the second.

* Brand: Netgear
* Type: Netgear EVA700-100ISS
* Category: media players
* connection technology: Wireless
* Ethernet LAN (RJ-45) ports: 1
* USB 2.0 ports: 2
* SCART ports:1
* Composite video out
* S-Video out
* Network functions: 10/100 Mbps Ethernet RJ-45
* Data transfer speed: 54 Mbit/s
* Video compression formats: MPEG1 / MPEG2 / MPEG4 / AVI / WMV / Xvid
* Audio compression formats: MP3 / WAV / WMA / M3U / PLS / ACC
* Supported image formats: JPEG / BMP / PNG / TIFF / GIF
* Minimum required disc space: 20 MB
* Minimum processor: Intel Pentium 500 MHz
* Minimum RAM: 128 MB
* Compatible operating systems: Microsoft Windows XP
* Dimensions B x D x H : 431.8 x 254 x 50.8 mm
* Weight: 2000 g
* Colour: Silver

More product info: http://www.netgear.co.uk/digital_entertainer_eva700.php

dublad23

Are they really worth it?

Canonfan

2kg

fifib

ive been looking around for an external media player hard drive.......but do you think this would be better??

Ghost Train

seems it's a bit buggy, and netgear haven't fixed problems that they know the unit has had since it was released over a year ago
still good price for a wireless media player
http://forum1.netgear.com/showthread.php?t=7132

mijmu

What do I need for this to work

wingnut

PC World have a phillips version - loads in stock reduced from 135 to 40 euro.

mad m

wingnut wrote: »

PC World have a phillips version - loads in stock reduced from 135 to 40 euro.

Make and model?

fatal

what sort of a connection would you need on your tv to be able to play music/movies from this device?
Are there any others that people would recommend?

thegills

Does this box play the files for you or do you have to play the files on your PC and then stream to your TV?

Ghost Train

wingnut wrote: »

PC World have a phillips version - loads in stock reduced from 135 to 40 euro.

what pcworld did you see it in?

Col_Loki

I just picked up one of these. There €140 on komplett, i was about to pay that for one. Exactly what im looking for!!

What do I need for this to work

A computer with wireless and your films/music loaded on it (computer needs to be on).
Or you can plug in a USB hard disk and run files from it.

Does this box play the files for you or do you have to play the files on your PC and then stream to your TV?

It plays the films, it can play them from USB/NAS etc.

mad m

Col_Loki wrote: »

I just picked up one of these. There €140 on komplett, i was about to pay that for one.

Which Pcworld Col.

Col_Loki

Which Pcworld Col.

Actually i meant the Netgear EVA700.
Would be very surprised if PCW had one with similar specs for €40......

I will be happy with the Netgear one i think (Have all netgear stuff at the moment and very happy).

Beelzebub

http://www.amazon.com/review/product/B000GHWQ86/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?%5Fencoding=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

and some tips as well.

Zynks

Did anyone order one of these too? I just received my two units. Fifteen minutes after the courrier dropped them here it was wired and getting a firmware update. Started playing movies, music (from network & Internet radio) and photos and I am quite pleased. Video quality is really good (at good as my HTPC). Sound quality is good also, but it has limited playlist functionality as an audio player (though I could sort that out on the TVersity server).
Slideshows are OK, but not too keen on how it handles the colours - may need some adjustments, but I really bought this to handle videos, and it does that really well.
My 8 year old has already mastered the menu navigation to find his favourites.

Note: my experience is based on wired ethernet connection and TVersity on the server instead of the standard software that comes with the box. Overall I give it an 8 out of 10 as a video streaming client, leaving some space for GUI improvements.

Tiesto

dublad23 wrote: »

Are they really worth it?

nothing is worthed from ibood because buy the time you get it, its on sale everywhere else anyways

thegills

its on sale everywhere else anyways

Where??
It's been a couple of days now. Are there any equivalent models for about €70?

Col_Loki

Well its down to €99.50 on komplett, im still pretty happy i saved €30 to be honest. Still waiting for mine though.

kingaaa

I just registered with ibood, but can anyone tell me how you actually order something?

pjproby

the offer lasts for one day only
if you see something you like
buy it straight away
many items particularly ipods sell out very quickly

AdMMM

kingaaa wrote: »

I just registered with ibood, but can anyone tell me how you actually order something?

this page.

oldgeezer

Any else get one of these

Ghost Train

I got mine yesterday. Seems to work fine with the wired connection, using both tversity and the microsoft connect software, but couldn't get it to see my pc with the wireless link. I can listen to the internet radio feeds with the wireless so I'm on the network, but doesn't see the media server. Video quality seems very good, nice that it plays from the usb port, but would be interested to hear if anybody gets it to work easily over wireless

Btw unit did stop responding once or twice after start up when I didn't hit the enter button quick enough

alastair_doom

Got the wireless working on vista with TVersity as the server. TVersity has a setting in the options especially for the EVA700. Other than that, i just made sure the firewall and router had the appropriate port open.

Very happy with this piece of kit so far.

chilli_pepper

Does it stream movies ok (with wireless) ?
Does it come with TVersity s/w or do you just d/load that separately , do you need to install the s/w that the unit comes with.....sorry bout all the questions !

Ghost Train

chilli_pepper wrote: »

Does it stream movies ok (with wireless) ?
Does it come with TVersity s/w or do you just d/load that separately , do you need to install the s/w that the unit comes with.....sorry bout all the questions !

tversity is something you download. The software it comes with it is a microsoft program which does the same thing (shares folders) (you can run both services at the same time and both appear in the menu). tversity though will transcode file types not natively supported by the unit, so it plays back more formats like flac or youtube videos. Would also like to know about the wireless performance, must try get it to get the wireless to work

shane1111

Anyone else still waiting on their delivery ?
I got an email last week asking me to confirm my address but still no sign of my media player.

mijmu

I'm still waiting