[mythtv-users] HDPVR for $169 at buy.com

Yan Seiner yan at seiner.com
Wed Jun 23 18:42:27 UTC 2010


On Wed, June 23, 2010 6:37 pm, Brian Wood wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 22, 2010 07:13:56 pm jedi wrote:
>
>> > So the Rokus can't play local files in any way? That seems odd to me.
>> At
>> > the least it could have a USB port you could plug a flash drive into,
>> > but an NFS and/or Samba client would be even nicer.
>>
>>     Yeah. Roku boxes are pretty limited. They have the virtue of being
>> small and cheap though. I'm not sure I would recommend one to anyone.
>
> I agree. Roku started as essentially a dedicated Netflix "Watch Instantly"
> player, and it will do that, but not much else.
>
> What I *can* recommend right now in the "small and cheap" category is a
> Myka, especially since they are being closed out
> at $89:
>
> http://www.myka.tv/buy.html?page=shop.browse&category_id=6
>

Does it have composite out?  The specs aren't clear.  It says "NTSC, PAL,
HDMI", so I can assume that NTSC and PAL are composite out.  Or not.

--Yan

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