Swedish Valei Computer intros ZC-HV0105 media streamer

It's hard to tell exactly what's so special about Swedish Valei Computer's ZC-HV0105, but we'll do our best to translate. This self-proclaimed Home Media Center looks an awful lot like a jazzed up router at first glance, and appears to tout a front LCD, DVI / component / S-Video / composite outputs, 720p / 1080i upscaling, support for an internal HDD, USB 2.0 connectivity, Ethernet and a slew of audio outs to boot. Best of all, this piece will play nice with a whole bucketful of formats including MP3, WMA, OGG, WMV, DivX, XviD and MPEG1/2/4. Sadly, we've no idea on the price, and worse still, we've a really bad feeling about it ever coming stateside.

[Via Readle Gadgets]

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 23rd 2008 3:24PM]

This looks a lot like the Mvix MX-760HD, so I wouldn't worry about it not coming to the US. Sadly, neither device handles MKV files...

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 23rd 2008 3:33PM]

The Popcorn Hour A100 does handle all this and more including mkv. I have one in for review now, should have the video review up in less than a week, but after about 3 days of use, I've really liking it.

Marshall
The Real HT Info Podcast

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 23rd 2008 3:47PM]

Great - I'm very interested to see your review. These media devices seem to have more quirks than their worth.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 24th 2008 2:03PM]

Yeah the mvix player, while looked great on paper, was a horrible device. Modified Xbox had far more functionality. I returned it for a refund after only a day.

Since then, I am very skeptical on these media players, extender or streamers.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 23rd 2008 5:10PM]

If only the Popcorn Hour A100 play dvr-ms files.