Media Centers
December 6th, 2003 | Published in Out Loud
Gizmodo tossed off a brief item on the Neustron media center player. Too bad, this actually looks like a great media center, assuming you’re in the market for one. It seems to play just about everything, and the company has a great-looking DVD player that also plays just about anything.
There are a few tip-offs that can help tell you a little about a company—first, these guys are from Singapore, which means less marketing and legal, and more tech. Clearly, these guys just threw everything into the device they could get their hands on—I don’t even know what RM4 format is. The media center device has ethernet AND WIFI, which is a given that we want that, but most US companies aren’t giving us the option. Look at the back of these devices, they’re packed with outputs.
The bast part, however, is that you can reprogram the DVD player to disable Macrovision and make it region-free from the remote (both unofficially). Take that. Searable database of DVD player info: http://www.dvdrhelp.com/dvdplayers
Memo to Hollywood—again—the cat is out of the bag, the game is over. You lost.