Hi all,
I ordereed form Amazon and received the BV-5005 HD yesterday. I set up and updated the firmware. Everything works fine except the PC Media as it does not connect to my win-7 PC harddrive. So not sure if any new firmware will solve the problem.
Other than this issue the product is good and does the job of playing all kind of media on my attached USB drive well enough with support also 7.1 audio on my Maranz AVR. Thanks and hopes the win-7 issue should solve ASAP by Brite-view.

Shantanu

why is this rated so highly? i looks average to crap to me!!!

How i can buy this product in India?

Do this 5005HD works good on Panasonic 42" lcd tv which is a full hd!
reply will be use for me to take decision
thks in advance!

What is time?new firmware UPDATE

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Buyer Beware! This player does not work with Windows Vista or Windows 7. Network feature is useless I get "Login Failed" all the time. Playback is jittery over the 100Mbps network. Don�t waste your money on this garbage!

info from Brite-View:

Hi all, more detailed information regarding the firmware that will be available soon:

1. Subtitle features: Time Sync, Color, Size, Offset;
2. Subtitle coding: Unicode (UTF8), 簡體中文 (GBK), 繁體中文 (BIG5), Japanese (S-JIS), Korean (EUC-KR), Western, Turkish, Central European, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, SE European
3. HE-AAC 5.1 CH debug

(expected to be released on Nov 6)

The next firmware will include:

1. OSD UI to 720p (instead of 576i)
2. Preview window size change (much smaller; not taken off completely because the preview window is needed to view music information)
3. File search � real time file search
(instead of having files indexed to the petition on HDD  might be faster but will result in not shutting down the attached HDD)
4. New Language Support on OSD UI (German/ Russian/ Swedish/ Italian/ Polish)

(expected to be released in early Dec)

We know these two do not fix all the problems, but I just wanted to show that we have heard your concerns and opinions especially on the GUI. I�ve seen it myself in the HQ office and I will say this: it looks very simple and greatly improved.

And I also want to update on the Dolby HD+ and TrueHD issue. I have confirmed that we have the Dolby HD license, but not TrueHD because of chip limitation. Others brands or media players with the same chip may claim they support Dolby TrueHD, but we do not think the audio part can be decoded by this chip correctly. Realtek is working on this, but before this issue is resolved by Realtek we will not claim that we support TrueHD. The highest level we can go is at Dolby HD+.

New stuff in next firmware:

1. HE-AAC audio format support
2. Subtitle position and color change
3. Subtitle time sync
4. Subtitle encoding (Turkish and Portuguese will be supported;

In the version afterwards, you'll see

1. UI improvement (Yes!! It's happening!)
2. 720p GUI
3. Search feature

This is all stuff that I think is already in Xtreamer so not very impressed. Maybe brite-view is falling behind in firmwares?

some info.
128MByte DDR2 RAM, 256MByte NAND flash ROM, 6W system on, 0W system off.

@BubbleBoy: The 6000P and the 5005HD are not the same device. The 6000P does not have ethernet. Currently the only way to buy the 5005HD is directly through the Briteview website.

That Amazon store link doesn't work.

Try this one.
www.amazon.com

Only $90 with free shipping there. I'm jealous.

I've read that it doesn't have Youtube XL installed anymore either.

A legal problem.