I wanted to change my home theater in the basement of Bluray drive on media streaming. Basis for this is a 419PII QNAP NAS.
Important for me was the smooth playback of Bluray possibility ISOs incl. Menus and the corresponding HD-sound formats.
The following structure is to be found in me:
NAS is in the office on the first floor of the house. Connected to a gigabit switch, which in turn feeds the signal into a FRITZ DLAN 520E Set to receive the network signal in the basement. (. Gross RD 220 Mbit, net remain 60-80 over)
(Which is configured as AP) in the basement of the DLAN to a WLAN router, and from there, among other things in the media player.
For my tests, I selected BlurayŽs which quite a high bit rate (eg Avatar -. With up to 50 Mbit). The reading of the ISO usually takes so 4 - 5 seconds and you start playback. Ruckelfrei with 5.1 HD Sound (English). Test passed.
2. Area of application are HBO series in 720p with DD5.1 mostly as .mkv and external SRT subtitles files.
Again, there are no problems, except that the Media Player sometimes the correct frame rate does not recognize, but which is set with two keystrokes.
3. Application. Music Playback -> Flac without problems.
Even my own recorded HD videos of my Canon camcorder be played without problems.
Hung the unit has been once. When switching from video to audio playback. This error so far I could not reproduce.
For tagging all over the movies and series I do not use the supplied tool (I feel myself as scrap), but Media Center Master (MCM).
This will reliably on various film-DBŽs data for movie, automatically loads the folder.jpg down, and can create the enstprechenden .TAG Files for the NeoTV, almost automatically.
For me PRO:
- No problems with Bluray and HD ISOS TON (Passtrough)
- Streams HD perfectly over LAN
- External subtitles
- Silent
Criticisms:
- Product is EOL
- Youtube works with current FW not (for me but not relevant)
- Menu looks slightly frumpy.
Conclusion:
If 3D does not matter, there is nothing against the NEOTV550.
Update 2/21/2013: (also star deduction)
Meanwhile, the unit is unfortunately defective. It began with the fact that after the unity oh (before current) was often found no LAN network (no LED activity on the LAN interface on the device). Only by repeatedly switching on and off, or resetting was from and to the network are found. But then usually only in 10Mbps mode, rarely with 100 MBit. Until then, finally, no more boats was possible. Unit went under the guise of ensuring back to Amazon. -> Very praise, I was offered without a credit problems.
Now a Dune Smart D1 tinkers with me, so far without any problems.
