I’ve had the SMP for just under a week now & I have to say that unlike most of the people who post on here, I’m really impressed with it. I think it’s a vast improvement over the Live player. Netflix is a great addition. I thought I would have issues with streaming from my Hub but MKV’s play seamlessly. All in all, it was well worth upgrading
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Thanks for sharing your impressions.
For $100 I suppose you can’t expect much. The SMP mostly delivers for that price point once you learn how to use it.
I still wish I got a HUB for the themes instead of an SMP, but I didn’t do any research on my purchase like I normally do.
I’m not going to give WD anymore of my $ though for future media players because they haven’t fixed PNG’s and there are some very annoying well known bugs that have been around for a long time.
Instead I’m going to either get a PCH A-300 or build a HTPC running XBMC. So if I could have done it over again I definitely wouldn’t have gone the WD route. If I had no other choice
I would have gone with a HUB.
I’ve seen XBMC back then on a friend’s original xbox. What’s it like today? Does it handle 1080p/MKV/PGS subs well?
This isn’t really the place to discuss XBMC
I’m new to XBMC myself, but if you only saw it running on original Xbox 360 It’s come A LONG WAY since then.
StuN_UK wrote:
I’ve had the SMP for just under a week now & I have to say that unlike most of the people who post on here, I’m really impressed with it. I think it’s a vast improvement over the Live player. Netflix is a great addition. I thought I would have issues with streaming from my Hub but MKV’s play seamlessly. All in all, it was well worth upgrading
If you’re anything like me, the longer you use it, the more you’ll hate it.
