TVIX Box’s Latest Leaves Apple TV in the Dust
TVIX Box News August 31st, 2007Latest updates to TVIX Box’s HD M-4100SH High-definition Digital Multimedia Player adding PVR functionality and MKV file support show TVIX Box’s commitment to staying leaps and bounds ahead of Apple TV.
San Francisco, CA (TVIX Box News) August 31, 2007 - Last year, TVIX Box shocked the world with the release of the now widely acclaimed TVIX Box HD M-4000PA High-definition Digital Network Multimedia Player–a one-of-a-kind home entertainment system capable of holding upwards of 1 TB of movies, songs, and pictures and capable of rendering them in high resolution HD 1080i and digital surround sound on a TV or home entertainment system. Recent updates to its line of network multimedia players, including the HD M-4100SH make it the best player on the market, by a long-shot.
The concept is simple. Imagine a small component in your home entertainment system that digitally stores all of your DVD’s, CD’s, home movies, photos and downloaded media files on its internal hard disk drive for playback at the click of a button. Browsing your media library is done easily using the included remote control and onscreen prompts.
“I am hearing more and more often from people, ‘In my house we don’t watch TV. We watch TVIX,’” says TVIX Box CEO, Christopher Leonard.
In case you are wondering how you get your media on to the TVIX Box, you’ll be surprised at how simple it is. The TVIX Box can connect directly to your flash drive, removable hard disk, digital camera, digital video recorder or just about any mass storage device and take media directly from it. If you keep a lot of your media on a PC then you will be glad to know you can connect the TVIX Box direct via USB and load all your media with just a few clicks.
“All across America people are ripping their DVD’s to the TVIX Box. I used to think, ‘It’s like DVD’s are going out of style!’ and you know what?They are.”
If you have every used Any DVD or DVD Shrink to a rip a DVD to your PC and you have not tried a TVIX Box, then prepare to be impressed. The same goes for BitTorrent media junkies. Never has it been so easy to get the media on to your TV, and never has the quality been so good. Say goodbye to media PC’s and complex media extenders, TV output cards and the pain of burning DVD’s. With the TVIX Box its just no longer necessary.
For those of you with home networks, the TVIX Box can be connected via Ethernet LAN or optional wireless LAN to transfer media or stream from other devices on your network. Navigation is simpler than your cable company’s electronic program guide!
Staying on the forefront of technology, the new TVIX Box HD M-4100SH sports the most extensive file playback support of any hardware based player to date, including AVI, WMV, MPG, ISO, VOB, IFO, MP4, ASF, TP, TS, M2TS, MOV and recently MKV video formats at HD video resolutions of up to 1920 x 1080P.
But that’s not all. It supports all popular audio formats too, including MP3, WMA, AAC, Ogg, PCM, M4A, AC3, FLAC and WAV.
With the release of the optional T410 HDTV (High-definition TV) Tuner and PVR (Personal Video Recorder), you can turn your TVIX Box M-4000 or M-4100 into a full-featured HDTV recorder with scheduled recording and support for your cable company’s Electronic Program Guide. Now you can watch it later and skip the commercials without losing that great HD picture!
Apple TV may have a long way to go, but with the TVIX Box you’re already there.
For additional information regarding the TVIX Box line of digital multimedia players, please contact Paul Valente or visit www.tvixbox.com .
About TVIX Box:
TVIX Box is a manufacturer and supplier of home, commercial, portable and personal multimedia players including the TVIX Box line of hard disk drive (HDD) digital multimedia players and is based in Northern California .
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September 17th, 2007 at 5:24 pm
I guess TViX need to improve their Mac support/usage if they truly plan on taking Apple TV on. No support of HFS+ on the 4100SH is certainly not helping. And using FAT32 on a 500gig harddrive is not a solution. FTP seems problematic as well.
So be aware, if you’re an Apple User then the 4100SH is not necessarily for you. Though I ‘ve got one, it was a pain to setup and the service from TViX was non-existent.
March 25th, 2008 at 6:21 am
Good info. I was about to order one and then read your post. I will look into this more but, being a Mac user, I need a product that supports this platform completely.
March 27th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Well it’s 8 or so months later and I’ve got used to things. The fact that you can put up to a 1 tb drive inside and also connect another 2 external USB2 drives (any capacity) gives it a major advantage over the appleTV still. You can also use jump drives. I keep everything on there - leaving my mac plenty of room. I’ve managed to enable NAS share so can access my mac over the network (wireless works too though I don’t use that) with the remote and you can copy from there to the tvix pretty easily or just stream. I bought Paragon’s NTFS enabler and that’s changed everything. I can copy any sized files to a standard PC partition using the Finder. I’ve been ripping 8gb DVDs as ISOs and the tvix plays them as a normal DVD. (there’s even a folder wallpaper generator for a more informative folder stucture - see the thread in the link below (GUI Generator for mac). Oh and you can format a 500gb FAT32 using Disk Utility.
I’ve been recoding some files as H.264 mp4s and the tvix plays them perfectly. Recently they added support for MKV files too… Found a great website for info:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/forumdisplay.php?f=39
March 27th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
and this one:
http://mpcclub.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=156
March 27th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
But as a caveat I would say that the latest firmware for the 4100SH and 5100SH leaves a lot to be desired. If they don’t fix a lot of issues with the next version (which is now 2 months behind) then I cannot recommend the device.
Slow icon display, problems with music playback and ISO files often freeze or jump.
I recode almost everything using VisualHub to H.264 mp4s so I’m generally alright, but these are annoying issues for the general user.