Check out this media streamer

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http://www.acryan.com/en/fluxx.html

Full gigabit support 2tb, fastest processor available right now.

Will have to wait after the new year for price, prob be £500.00 knowing my luck

 

[Anonymous]

I still dont think it has enough processing power to be able to support 1GBit of data over a network. It possibly might be able to read off its own drive near that mark but writing to it over a network i think itll be closer to 80MB/s.

Still only HDMI 1.3a though is a no from me as isnt anything this box does that my Popcorn hour doesnt already do. I know its got a great CPU and DDR3 Ram etc but its media player box and just plays media and you dont need a super CPU to do that.

I imagine Popcorn will be releasing a new box in 2011 but later in the year and its rumoured to be HDMI 1.4

I must admit though it looks really nice

 

[Anonymous]

Why cant I have my cake and eat it too...

Surley it cant be that hard to build a streamer that has true support for gigabit, were no matter what I chuck at it, it will stream NO MATTER WHAT... lol

 

[cram]

If craig is correct, and I haven't checked the specs, that should still be plenty quick enough. Would agree though that it doesn't really do anything that a popcorn hour can't so will be interesting to see the pricing

 

[Anonymous]

I was told the chip in the popcorn hour's chip could not handle gigabit, some are saying this is only for marketing.

 

[cwalduck]

A rough rule of thumb is 1GHz of CPU is required to run Gigabit flat-out, so I don't think any streamer will run a Gigabit network any time soon as they are usually designed for minimum power consumption and no noise i.e. no big fans or high MHz CPU's.

MediaCenter PC would be the way to go if you need Gigabit transfer rates.

 

[Anonymous]

canada16:
I was told the chip in the popcorn hour's chip could not handle gigabit, some are saying this is only for marketing.

My popcorn Hour has never been able to get any higher than about 9MB/s and copying a file to its Hard Drive over Wired Network averages about 6-7MB/s

I honestly think though that 1GB DDR3 will mean it can buffer 200-300MB of video to RAM for Blu-Ray and as long as average speed is about 8MB/s then itll play anything just fine.

Hopefully these companies will introduce large memory allocations for streaming video.