This is the first based on Linux media center in world made in Neuros Technology, audio/video peripheral company which based in Chicago, United States. This open source operating system makes it can implement the third party application easily.

This equipment can be connected with television, home cinema, and functioning as “bank file”. It will keep your video or DVD content in digital files. Because functioning like external hard disk, new file also can be kept in it.

Its body is slim and curved with various output and input connection in right and left side. Purchasing package also accompanied with a remote control, RCA cable, IR Blaster, and power cable.

Neuros OSD has CF, SD, MS card port and USB port in the frontage. Through this ports its ability can be enjoyed maximumly. Other peripheral which having USB connectivity (or the file saved at memory card) can be connects with OSD.

Because of it, OSD can connect directly with iPod, webcam, DVD player, and external hard disk. This gadget also able to transfer memory card files (Memory Stick, SD, CF, and MMC) to PSP, computer, smartphone, and non-USB portable gadget.

This 230 grams gadget can record video with QVGA and VGA resolution applies different MPEG-4 format, depend on its player, like PlayStation, iPod, TV, and ponsel.

Interesting feature of this equipment is IR Blaster. With this feature, you can record two or more different displaying time or different television channel program.

Its playback ability is also great. Except H.264 format, OSD can play quicktime video format until FLV, ASF, WMV, MPEG, and MPEG4. This gadget is also able to play digital song which having MP3, WMA, OGG VORBINS, FLAC, WAV, AAC, and G.726 format.

OSD also can decode picture which having bmp, jpeg, and gif extension and functioning as picture viewer. Digital photo can be presented as slideshow in television screen.

Like personal computer, OSD is open, expandable, flexible, and applies upgrade able software and relentlessly enhanced. Neuros OSD operates with Linux open source operating system with dualcore processor from ARM9/ TI DSP which special designed for multimedia application.

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The TiVo HD uses two built-in tuners to record over-the-air ATSC HDTY, unscrambled QAM cable broadcasts, and premium channels, with the help of two CableCARD slots. Since all the modes are "dual tuner," you can record two programs at once or record one program while watching another live. Inside the device is a 16OGB hard drive, good for about 180 hours of standard definition TV recorded at "Basic" quality and 20 hours of HD content. Note that this is less capacity than the Series 3, which has 250GB hard drive that can store 300 hours of SDTV and 30 hours of HDTV.

The familiar TiVo interface does everything its users have come to expect: schedule, search, and suggest programming to record and play back. Most of the user interface has been optimized for HD sets, so there are fewer “jaggies” to be seen. Like previous models, the TiVo HD endeavors to learn your likes and dislike if you use the thumbs-up/down keys while viewing, and it occasionally will record programs on its own that it thinks you'll enjoy. Keep in mind that, on top of your cable fees, you still have to buy intoTiVo’s subscription service, which runs from $8.31 to $19.99 per month.

Broadband Internet users can get all sorts of content piped to their TiVo HDs, from home movies delivered by online provider One True Media to Internet radio on Live365.com. I was able to connect to my home network via Ethernet port, using a HomePlug powerline network and TiVo's optional 802.11 b/g USB wireless adapter. Yahoo! users will be able to access Yahoo! online content such is photos, weather, and traffic.

More interesting, you can use tv.yahoo.com to search and schedule programs for recording from work, school, or wherever you have a Web browser and an Internet connection. Certain Verizon Wireless cell phones can access TiVo Mobile, which lets you search programs and schedule recordings.

All in all, the TiVo HD lives up to the promise of finally offering HD programming on a TiVo at a reasonable cost. 1Ithink $300 is the sweet spot that will push current TiVo subscribers into the HD fold and lure new users away from the vanilla Cable DVR boxes.

TIVO HD: $299.99

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Here's what I mean by tricky: A firmware upgrade, installation of an internal hard drive (annoyingly not included), calls to tech support, and several changes to my PC's security settings were needed before I was set up. But in the end, the product proved its worth. I enjoyed crisp HD content that I first loaded wirelessly to the unit's hard drive via my 802.11g Wi-Fi network.

Wireless streaming of video from a host computer was a different story: Sputtering was out of control. The wait time for transferring a full-lenght movie could be hours, too, but once movies were on the device's drive, they played perfectly. I had no problem streaming audio and photos. A nice Internet radio function that also requires hard drive installation provides access to Shout Cast and Ice Cast servers. A USB connection in back makes for easy plug-and-play of files on a flash drive.

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On the most fundamental level, the Pegasus Cynalynx just wouldn't play my files. During testing, I was able to stream DVDs successfully only a few times, and the quality was pretty sketchy. Video would sputter and often freeze and crash the system. I had no luck streaming video files, either.

Also annoying, DVD audio doesn't play via the analog stereo-out jack. The only way to hear a DVD's sound is by using the digital coaxial port. If you don't have a receiver that has a digital coax-in port, you're out of luck.

I could go on and on about how the Pegasus Cynalynx also had a problems playing all of my music files-whether they were ripped from a CD in iTunes or downloaded completely DRM-free from eMusic. I could tell you how it didn't even show up as a wireless router on one of my other systems, despite the fact that I turned off the firewall and spent hours trying to will it into action. I could tell you how it was incompatible with Vista and the ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics driver on one of our test systems. But you get the point.

Compare this experience with the one provided by the less-expensive Apple TV. The Apple TV worked fine and took me less than an hour to set up, while the Pegasus Cynalynx took days of tweaking and never really cooperated. I didn't even get to listen to one full song or view one full movie. Not good.

Nobody likes to kick the little guy, but in the name of protecting your wallet, I must advise you to steer clear of this product.
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