August 3, 2007

Review of the Neuros OSD DVR and Streaming Appliance

The Neuros OSD is a very cool product that should make a lot of people turn their heads. This is the next generation media streamer we have been thinking about for a long time. The Neuros OSD is a very slick looking media streamer that aims to do it all.

The OSD has some very interesting features we haven't seen in other media streamers we have reviewed. For one you can hook up a DVD player to it and stream the output to a bunch of different devices around the house or around the Internet. Usually network streamers only can push content stored on your computer or cable box, the fact that this can do it straight from your DVD player is a very nice addition.

Just check out the other options for streaming and recording, very impressive.

Things it can record from

DVR/VCR
Any of the new came consoles
Satellite
Digital Video Camera
Cable tuner
DVD and CD player
Any RCA or SVideo source

Things it can record to

All formats of media cards
USB external drives as well as iPods
Any Computer hooked up to your home network

Things it can play the content on

The TV that it is hooked up to
Any PC on your network
Video phones
Portable video players like the PSP

So as you can see they have added a lot of options to this device and the flexibility is a welcomed treat with some of the other products out there that like to limit what you can do with the device( thats right AppleTV we are looking at you ).

Add to all of this that it is based on Linux and the good people of Neuros actually want you to hack their device. They have created bounties on certain things they would like added. So you can even get paid for hacking this thing. This is so very what we have wanted in a media device.

We can wait to get our hands on one to mess around with. We will update you when we do.

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