First v2 Media Center Extender (Pika) Details!

re: First v2 Media Center Extender (Pika) Details!

Simon — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:29:43 GMT

Finally... have been waiting for these a while.

Allready bought two Xbox 360 which have NEVER been used to play games....

I love extenders :-)

re: First v2 Media Center Extender (Pika) Details!

DC — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:29:00 GMT

I was at the Lifeware show home where they had two beta v2 Extenders by I think D-Link. I think most people are wondering about boot up time compared to a Xbox 360 and I would have to say that it is slightly faster but still annoyingly slow. The interface seemed to have a lower resolution than a Xbox 360. I did not look at what cables were used to connect the Extender. Now that I think of it, I should have taken some pictures.

re: First v2 Media Center Extender (Pika) Details!

Aaron — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:24:42 GMT

Two things:

1) I agree with Dan. The extender interface is not nearly as "zippy" as the MCE machine. I wish they could fix this.

2) These need to be cheap to compete with the X360. (I'm sure Niveus will be >$500, but D-Link and Linksys could be cheap?)

re: First v2 Media Center Extender (Pika) Details!

DanITman — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:29:05 GMT

Is anyone else concerned at which the speed of the extenders run? Some day I would like to see my whole house run off extenders but I really enjoy the speed of the actual server machine. Am I the only one who feels this way?