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The Neuros OSD - a useful digital recording device

  • 08-03-2008 10:30am
    #1
    probe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,055 ✭✭✭


    A useful device to manage the transition from analog to digital video/TV in your household – the Neuros OSD (costs under €200). With it you can copy your existing video content to USB hard disks, record TV programmes, view the content either on a PC or TV later, and the kit covers most standards* and connection types. Your old VCR is going to be dead some day – if you have any worthwhile content – including family videos – it is a good time to do a back-up on hard disk!

    USB hard drives are getting very cheap with 1 Terrabyte about €300 and 2 Terrabyte drives at around €700.

    Watch this demo video: http://www.neurostechnology.com/files/videos/NeurosOSDRecordAndPlayBackVideo.mp4

    The spec:
    Video Standard
    • Compatible with NTSC, Pal and Secam (input only) standards
    Video Recording
    • ISO Standard MPEG-4 SP encoding (MP4, ASF)
    • QVGA (320x240) @30fps with AAC-LC/MP3/G.726 audio for smartphones, PSP™, iPod™, iPhone™ and PDA’s.
    • VGA setting (640x480) @30fps for PC, TV playback.
    • Record from any standard video source with RCA or S-video output (DVD, VCR, Camcorder, Cable/Satellite box, DVR/TiVo, Video Game Console, ...)
    Video Player
    • MPEG-4 SP with MP3 audio, 30fps up to D1 resolution (720x480)
    • Quicktime 6
    • MPEG-4 AAC-LC stereo
    • MP4 format at up to D1 resolution
    • H.263 with MP3 audio
    • FLV (for Playback of YouTube videos)
    • ASF
    • AVI (including Divx and Xvid)
    • MP4
    • WMV (up to QVGA)
    • MOV
    • MPG
    • MPEG
    You can also see a more detailed table of supported video formats for playback. http://www.neurostechnology.com/neuros-osd-playback-settings

    YouTube browser
    • Watch YouTube videos on your TV
    • Search the entire Youtube library using keywords
    • build a list with all your favorite videos
    Photo Viewer
    • JPEG decoder (baseline up to 32M pixel)
    • BMP
    • GIF (nonanimated)
    • Thumbnail view
    • Zoom in/out (2x, 4x)
    Audio Player
    • Stereo MP3/WMA @ 30-320kbps (CBR & VBR)
    • Ogg Vorbis
    • FLAC
    • WAV
    • Stereo MPEG-4 AAC-LC
    • G.726
    Features
    • Schedule (timer) recording
    • Customizable slide shows
    • One-click record
    • IR Blaster to control your set-top box
    • Run 3rd party applications
    USB Host
    • Record to and playback content from any USB mass storage device
    Ethernet
    • Connect to your network
    • Save recordings to network storage
    • UPnP support
    • Stream Audio/Video from Internet
    • Download multimedia content from Internet
    • Connect to Windows Networks (Samba client support)
    Complete System Includes
    • Standard A/V RCA Interface Cables (European units also contain SCART adapters)
    • 110-240V AC/DC Power Supply
    • Stand
    • IR Blaster
    • Remote Control
    • Abbreviated Users Manual
    Dimensions and Weight
    • 14 x 14 x 3.2 cm (5.5 x 5.5 x 1.25 inches)
    • Weight 230g (8oz)
    Upgradeability
    • System updates and 3rd party applications available at www.neurostechnology.com/support/
    • Automatic built-in software update
    Storage Card Compatibility
    • Memory Stick: Duo and Pro Duo
    • Compact Flash: Type I and Type II
    • Microdrives with CF type II interface
    • Secure Digital (SD)
    • Multi Media Card (MMC)
    • USB thumbdrives
    • External Hard Drives

    .probe

    *excluding HDMI

    http://www.neurostechnology.com/products


Comments

  • #2
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    DVD recorder €99

    I think these are a bit of a toy. Hard drives are not an archive medium.


  • #3
    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,158 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    watty wrote: »
    DVD recorder €99

    I think these are a bit of a toy. Hard drives are not an archive medium.
    Personally, I'd prefer HDD's over DVD-R's.


  • #4
    probe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,055 ✭✭✭probe


    watty wrote: »
    DVD recorder €99

    I think these are a bit of a toy. Hard drives are not an archive medium.

    Toy? You then end up with all these DVDs to store and file away and locate. And DVDs can get scratched and become unreadable. You can easily backup your media hard disk(s) on another disk.

    With the Neuros OSD, people can access the content from their PCs across a home network, via a web interface that can catalog the entire collection of media, your €99 DVD recorder (if you can find one at that price?????) won't have an MPEG4 codec which is essential to get good quality from manageable file sizes when converting video tapes to digital format. You can't play a DVD on your mobile phone.... The Neuros is a bridge among all your entertainment systems.

    .probe


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