just announced today and it looks very nice, rentals only but for netflix people this is nice because not only does it have netflix integration but youtube, flicker and rotten tomatoes integration. all movies are available the day they come out too so no waiting for them like netflix. movie rentals are $5 and tv show rentals are $1 plus commercial free (only ABC and FOX right now).
this is something i have been looking for, for some time now so i dont have to go to blockbuster to rent movies the day they come out and since its only $100 i will probably get it
use my popcorn hour for movie i burned/downloaded and use this for movies i want to just watch once
* H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps per channel, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats
* MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats
* Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format
Audio formats supported
* HE-AAC (V1), AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), protected AAC (from iTunes Store), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound pass-through
It sure does look like a really awesome device for most standard consumers… And it still has the USB port, so im really hoping that the community starts doing some awesome stuff with it!
The only thing that I really like about this is the ability to rent movies online the same day they come out as far as I know there is nothing else that will do that. everything else I would rather resort to my PCH
That’s fine, until you get a real collection and need some sort of jukebox to organize it all. Just trying to browse through my 15 seasons of Top Gear by file name would be awful. Then toss in a hundred or so movies and several 20+ episode seasons of TV shows and you start to see why browse by file doesn’t work.
Right now I’m running a skin called Unique Black Glas for YAMJ on my PCH. This is what I get on my TV:
JayS, do you have to manually put all the cover art out there in the file structure, or does it automatically build that information for you? I am really curious to see what your filenames/folder structures look like.
