Bought from BHPhoto - big price drop. Updated the firmware to 3.2.16 and plugged a fast USB flash drive to the rear port for cache. Found my shared drives without any problem. Seems to have less file compatibility issues than the WD Live. BD menus work but has long pauses when loading. Does not play video clips created from my Canon SX110is camera. Plays everything else I've thrown at it so far. Have had to unplug to reboot a few times - will show directory on network drive but says there are no videos in those directories. Tried everything - only rebooting works. Seems to work stably from attached USB drives.

Its September now and still no Netflix. LOL. Glad I ditched mine but I am also glad that people who have it are happy with but I still find its performance drastically inferior to the top competitors. The only thing it had is BD support but I watch all my HD as mkv so that is not so useful to me.

I don't understand people who love this UI. Particularly for folder browsers it is confusing and has very few files per page to show. The scrolling is sloooow and the response to remote is sluggish, and yes i have very fast cache drives connected. Many cool remote features Ill give that but awkward layout and contrary to some others it has VERY spotty xvid/divx abilities. I had to reboot this thing more than any other player.

I have been using the player for about 9 months now. Overall I love this player, plays all audio formats I need, .mkv, BD iso, nice menu, etc. This is what frustrated me about my Popcorn Hour A110.

The main reason I bought it was for BD iso support, which it did fairly well, however I still had a lot of stuttering. I tried putting a class 10 SD card in it to use as a cache/buffer, but it did not help (I think that is only used for BD Live). I never saw anywhere in the menu where I could specifically setup a performance cache, even on my media pc.

However, with the release of their latest patch on July 22, there seem to be a lot of enhancements and one of them is on BD playback, which no longer stutters! I wonder if they are caching automatically now, or if the SD card I setup for BD Live cache awhile back is somehow now being leveraged for general playback performance?

Only 1 complaint on this unit, but it might be my network setup, and not the unit itself. I use the Browse Folders method exclusively, and about once every 5-6 times I sit down to use it, I get a permissions error "cannot access media-pc" and I have to reboot my pc, and/or the neotv.

May I use the NeoTV 550 for downloading files via BitTorrent (on memory card or external HDD)?
Is there build in wireless wi -fi module or one should use USB wi-fi dongle?

I think the other reason people (Including myself) love this player is that, for the most part, it does what it says. It plays Blu-Ray .iso files as if there is an actual disc drive attached . If it's slow add a 2, 4 or 8GB usb drive or SD Card to the front port and assign it as the buffer/cache drive. This works for me and speeds the over all performance of the unit up. Even my BD-Live features buffer and run faster! (Even over LAN) . Plus for $160. Vs $250+ in this economy, you really cant go wrong with this player. One last thing..every file format I've thrown at it has played with no freezing or reboots. I think some people here just look for the most strange, weird and non-standard formats to watch things in. I don't need to be THAT different, I just want my shit to work. This player works very well. ...and that's all I have to say about that

i think one reason this unit is preferred to many other players (even with better chipsets) is that the GUI doesn't look like it was created by a 7-year-old.

has no heatsink on sigma chip so probably short lifespan

Why is this thing so highly rated? Its pretty crappy. Slow as hell and difficult to use. vs Pop A200 or boxee is falls flat on its plastic arse.

Hello, does it support rmvb file? thanks.

Very good when it works. There are still some bugs that need to be fixed. But its good player with a fast navigation interface.
It supports Blue ray menues from blue ray folders or iso files. It support HD audio bitstreaming over HDMI. It supports most video and audio formats. FLAC is supported,HD audio bitstreaming in MKV files is supported. And did I say its FANLESS....quiet
There is talk about some future firmware might come with CINEAVIA. They did not state that Cineavia was a part of the deal when i bought mine back in desember.

i purchased one of these units and am returning it after 10 days, for a few reasons. one, the build is not as high quality/sturdy as i expected. two, it does not have built-in wifi capability, and the only way to get it is to buy another netgear product/attachment for about USD 50 additional. very awkward solution. third, although it allegedly allows music folders to be viewed as jpeg/album covers, it recognizes only a fraction of what my 3-year-old wdtv did. fourth, i have noticed stuttering with far more movie files (avi, divx) than with my old wdtv player. fifth, it freezes up too frequently, requiring it to be completely unplugged before it will reboot.

there are several good things about this player, but for the money, i expected more. i will probably go back to one of the newer wdtv models.

The Player does not support greek subs neither external nor embedded

The player also does not support flac

the NeoTV 550 does NOT have stereo left/right audio RCA outputs it only has S/PDIF TOSLink & HDMI outputs

Looks pretty good, but ogg and gif are not supported?? WTF?

Overrated player. Just few people had this model when added and voted on iboum. Using almost same case as the latest routers.

Now available for pre-order:
Amazon.com @ US$169.99 -
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OR at Frys.com (same price)
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Hmm, looks like a close battle of Dunes vs Netgear NeoTV 550 with the latter leading on price. Probably can throw in PCH A-210 to keep it interesting!!

electrical retailer GiganttiGigantti has this preorder price 129 euro Gigantti

...Not so open actualy :

Subtitle Formats : SRT, SMI, SSA, SUB, TXT, DVD, PGS

It seems it has a kind of control over the subtitles.

The USA doesn't show as available on the Acetrax website.

Confirmed as Sigma 8642 chip on avforums.

i was wondering if this player (or any in the list, actually) offers the option of "doctoring" subtitles -- changing size/color, fixing synch issues, etc.