August 29, 2007

Neuros OSD Media Player in House

Well we just received our shiny new Neuros OSD and we have been tearing at it all night. So far the setup and usage have been very straightforward. We had read some reviews of people not being able to set this device up and not being able to use it. We aren't sure what was wrong with them, but so far it has been a snap.

Our first impression has been very positive. You can tell right off the bat that this is a community oriented device in that there is a big red flier in the box that says the first thing you should do is to upgrade the firmware of the device. Being tinkers we were very happy when we went to the update firmware section and saw so many options. You can select to have it auto check for new firmwares and also specify which types of firmwares you want; do you want stable, beta, or dev.

Us never being able to handle not playing with the latest and the greatest opted for the the dev firmware to see what it had to offer. There were a lot of obvious changes like a new UI and the addition of YouTube viewing.

Out only negative so far, and it is a big one, is that the only connection available for your TV is composite. We didn't expect HDMI or anything, but we were hoping for component at least, we would have even settled for S-Video( shudder ). So this will never replace our Mvix, but it does offer a whole lot more options so far with the ability to record TV and movies and format them for different devices like the PSP and whatnot.

We haven't finished playing with all the options, but stay tuned for a detailed report in the coming weeks.