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(More customer reviews)I will be returning this item.I do not recommend this at all.I understand how some may think that this is a great item because it's the first time they've been able to realize anything web-centric on their TV BUT... I feel that this item over promises and under delivers.
Without a keyboard the alpha- numeric selections are on a grid in alphabetical order.This becomes very cumbersome to scroll and select and gets old real quick.
Video format not supported in a premier Channel for trailers.Cinema now may play some movies but at the $3.99 per movie I was not going to check it out as I already have a netflix account.There is no excuse for incorrect format on a featured channel.This is even after the automatic firmware update, it still did not recognise.
90% of the channels are garbage or curiosities at best.The two that promised any substance are, Netflix and Hulu.However, Netflix and Hulu and 2 others are NOT accessible without a 3rd party plugin called PlayOn.On the off chance you discover how to use the 3rd party PlayOn (you have to install it on a PC within your LAN and, as if by magic, your PC is turned into a conduit media server).The search ability and breakdown of movies into genre is not only inadequate but from what we can tell doesn't provide the same programs as is available from the website and is limited in.
Oh... and about that search;horrible search functionality with no foreseeable way to sort your Video or YouTube results renders the search almost useless.You have to scroll thru 200+ results 4 selections at a time.It's just like the iPhone interface, only the iPhone gives you more information.
YouTube allows you to login with your credentials.Why?I don't know, because anything useful like my favorites is not accessible.So even if I favorite a movie on my PC, where the search and selection is useful, I would not be able to access it through this interface and would still need to navigate the overwhelming dump of results ofer 50 screens 4 items on each screen.
On general video searches, other than YouTube, any of the Videos we searched for were inaccessible or did not have the correct codec, despite it showing up in the search.In fact, on 2 occasions it locked up trying resolve one of these phantom videos and required a physical power cycle by unplugging it.
Video Quality was very good, it has more to do with the quality of the video than the device anyway.The WiFi works great and was an ease to install.It is compact and discrete with no more than 2 wires (power and HDMI) in WiFi mode.
So if you want to buy it for the novelty of it and be the first person on the block with a half-assed itv, get it.Otherwise I'd wait about 2 years until it becomes usefull.
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