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13th March 2013, 08:31 | #1 |
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| QNAP TS-469L High-performance 4-bay NAS Server for Home & SOHO Review The TS-469L is another powerful NAS from QNAP aimed at home and small business users, equipped with a HDMI interface that can be connected to our Full-HD TV. Thanks to its HD Station function and it’s modules, we can transform the server into a fully-featured media center for browsing the web, playing media content with XBMC or even for navigating through the Turbo NAS OS interface, without the need of using a PC. As extra bundle, we can acquire separately the useful QNAP Media Center remote or extra RAM for a total of 3GB. http://www.madshrimps.be/articles/article/1000412/ |
13th March 2013, 09:58 | #2 |
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| excellent review and also very interesting product. It can almost replace a dedicated server with all the extra functionality (itunes server, rsync, external backup, time machine,...) especially interested in the XBMC plugin, how well does it work? Did you try to play some notoriously difficult high Mbps samples? http://www.auby.no/files/video_tests/ the first one in the list is a killer Birds mkv 1080p h264 high profile 4.1 40mbps none none Direct bluray (or hddvd) remux (comes from BBC Planet Earth HDDVD/Bluray series)
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I have tried some HD movies, but also some 1080P rips and they worked without a flaw. Haven't tried though very high bitrate movies so far | |
13th March 2013, 17:22 | #4 |
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| Update: Ran Birds -> no issues Ran hddvd -> no issues Ran Monsters -> no issues |
14th March 2013, 07:21 | #5 |
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| excellent news that! that XBMC $99 Ouya console at this stage seems to have issues with certain codecs: XBMC running on the Ouya $99 Console
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| in the menu's high CPU usage doesn't mean video playback will be bad, as soon as the video started, it can talk to dedicated acceleration hardware and CPU usage will drop. Check in the youtube the 1080p MKV H264 sample, it plays fluently http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...4j9hfLE#t=375s , I hope XBMC can tweak the android edition to make the Ouya a valid alternative for a complete HTPC. if they fail, this QNAP certainly seems to be more than capable of the job
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