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Regardless of the hardware, the thing that should be most apparent is the need for a good interface. While the TV Live Plus had a utilitarian interface, the Hub brings the interface to new heights in ease of use. The first thing you'll notice is the nice background and ease to navigate menu system. While testing this with the »TV Live Plus (streaming from the Hub), the Plus is getting firmware updates to bring the menu options more in-line with the Hub, but it still retains the awful menu look. The Hub has it beats, hands down or up.
Like the TV Live Plus, the Hub does everything it can do including Netflix, Mediafly, Flickr, Blockbuster, Youtube, Facebook, Pandora, and some others. This is the internet content you can get, but remember that it plays content locally and from the network.
The weather is from AccuWeather.com (itself from the National Weather Service) and gives you enough information to be very useful. The temperature and time stay on the top right while in the menus.
This is a personal preferences, but I won't bother installing any media player that doesn't support Netflix. The Netflix experience on the TV Live Hub is just as good as the TV Live Plus. Some people scoff at Netflix streaming, but is very useful for catching up on things you've never seen all at once. It's the future of TV.
Remember that it is a TV Live Hub. From each content option, you can choose where to get the media from. The Hub supports local storage along with UPnP AV streaming and even generic Samba networking.
UPnP AV streaming is one of the best features of any network media players. Not only can the Hub act as a client, it can be the server as well to serve all the other clients in your network.
Regardless of the hardware, the thing that should be most apparent is the need for a good interface. While the TV Live Plus had a utilitarian interface, the Hub brings the interface to new heights in ease of use. The first thing you'll notice is the nice background and ease to navigate menu system. While testing this with the »TV Live Plus (streaming from the Hub), the Plus is getting firmware updates to bring the menu options more in-line with the Hub, but it still retains the awful menu look. The Hub has it beats, hands down or up.
Like the TV Live Plus, the Hub does everything it can do including Netflix, Mediafly, Flickr, Blockbuster, Youtube, Facebook, Pandora, and some others. This is the internet content you can get, but remember that it plays content locally and from the network.
The weather is from AccuWeather.com (itself from the National Weather Service) and gives you enough information to be very useful. The temperature and time stay on the top right while in the menus.
This is a personal preferences, but I won't bother installing any media player that doesn't support Netflix. The Netflix experience on the TV Live Hub is just as good as the TV Live Plus. Some people scoff at Netflix streaming, but is very useful for catching up on things you've never seen all at once. It's the future of TV.
Remember that it is a TV Live Hub. From each content option, you can choose where to get the media from. The Hub supports local storage along with UPnP AV streaming and even generic Samba networking.
UPnP AV streaming is one of the best features of any network media players. Not only can the Hub act as a client, it can be the server as well to serve all the other clients in your network.