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<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">I hadn't realized you were in Canada (I used to live in Peterborough,<br>
Ontario).<br>
<br>
Bandwidth caps are a problem, but I suspect they are the wave of the<br>
future in the USA. Funny how they always seem to have enough bandwidth<br>
for their own VOD services.<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div><br>Yeah, Brampton here. Bandwidth is really terrible here, and the new CRTC caving to Bell's billing change is another stake through the heart.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
MKV files sound like they may from that source we do not talk about :-)<br>
<br>
Myka can definitely play MKVs, and I know the upper two WD choices will,<br>
not certain about the lowest end one.<br>
<br>
But you might as well get a Netflix-capable device, which means the WD is<br>
probably better in your case.<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div><br>He he! Yes we will hush hush on sources ;)<br><br>Yeah, this is more of a "future-proofing" scenario I think, so the WD looks to be the right choice.<br>Neither Myka nor the WD can handle decoding Flash AFAIK.<br>
</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
I can watch CNN live with my Myka, only by using PlayOn and a third-<br>
party (but free) lua script. The quality is not that great, but it's<br>
certainly watchable.<br>
<br>
I can do the same with BBC News, which seems to be more news and less<br>
"Infotainment" than CNN (who I used to work for, so I can say that).<br>
<br>
PlayOn works by receiving Flash using IE, then transcoding on the fly to<br>
whatever your playback device can handle ( MPEG2 for an Xbox 360 for<br>
example), then exporting it via a UPnP server. This requires a fairly<br>
beefy Windows machine, especially for HD, and may be more complex than<br>
what you want.<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div><br>Hmm, yeah I figured since flash is primarily CPU-intensive vs. GPU for videos on these things it wouldn't do it. This isn't really important, just a nice little bonus if it was going to be possible, but no biggie. And with the Myka, are you able to install apps like PlayOn or does that come with it? I mean, as far as the interface are you able to get into a shell or something and have your way, or how do you add scripts and apps to it?<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">
><br>
> And I hear ya on the WD dead drives, I just got a 750 back from RMA<br>
> (which makes the timing pretty good to get my sis this player as I<br>
> can give her the 320 I was using plugged into the player so she's<br>
> set!).<br>
<br>
</div>Yeah, but I have run out of vendors to be mad at, so I guess I have to<br>
start at the beginning again, and as I said, things like that can and do<br>
happen to all vendors.<br>
<div><div></div><br></div></blockquote></div><br>Indeed, I have been through it with Maxtor when they were on their own way back in the day (still remember paying $350 for a 640mb drive lol), to Seagate to WD. I have to say, I have bought 3 of the Samsung Spinpoint F1s and zero issues so far (had 2 at the same time for almost a year now). They're solid.<br>
<br>Bobby<br>