IBOOD- ZyXEL DMA-2500 Full HD Digital Mediaplayer with HDMI € 129,95

The big deal is that it's a dumb hard drive that you plug into your pc, drop whatever you want on it and play it away. The bad side is that a lot of things are ripped / encoded in usa formats so you'll get sync issues when played on a european tv. The ps3 is an amazing media player overall - you can plug a drive into it and it'll show most things or if you've got a pc you can set up a wireless streaming media library on that - ps3 acts as a player straight to your tv. Personally I went for a dell monitor which doesn't care about frame rates (the amount of pics a second) and a pair of speakers so I've no problem playing video files regardless of what standard of tv they were designed for.

It's not a particularly good deal.
Better to go for the WD TV on komplett for €89. It does more or less the same.

as for what joconnell said, this is just a media player. It doesn't have any capacity to store media. The media must be stored somewhere else on your network or on a HDD connect to the usb port.
I don't see why the encoding of files shouldn't cause problems either.
basically, it's like the media streamer part from the PS3.

If you want blu-ray though.....
you won't get much better than the PS3 for a media player and blu-ray.

deadl0ck wrote: »

I thought the WD TV is just a "local" media player, i.e. it doesn't have network connectivity and therefore you cannot stream from a central server.

If so then WD TV is a totally different beast...

yeah, looks like you right.
In that case, the Xtreamer does more than the Ibood offer and has room for a 2.5" internal HDD and it's only €120 delivered!

http://www.xtreamer.net/