Product Details
- Color: Grayish-Black
- Brand: Netgear
- Model: EVA9150
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 2.00" h x
10.00" w x
17.00" l,
10.16 pounds
Features
- Plays video, MP3, and digital photos from your PC, Mac or network attached storage (NAS) to your HDTV
- Streams media directly from the Internet such as YouTube, Internet radio, Flickr photos, RSS, and podcasts
- Automatically finds all digital media files on your home network and organizes them into an easily accessible library
- This EVA9000 series includes a 500 GB hard drive (EVA9150) for extra storage of movies, photos, and music
- Includes HDMI port, HD upconversion up to 1080p, Wireless-N, two USB ports for iPod and USB drives
NETGEAR EVA9150 Digital Entertainer Elite
Product Description
Netgear Eva9150
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
39 of 40 people found the following review helpful.
By Phil Baumert
This is a pretty cool unit. Setup is a breeze and it even came with a DVI cable to hook up to my TV. It also has RCA cables. I have almost 1TB of movies in various formats(.avi .wmv .mpg) and it plays every one. Sometimes I cannot use the skip function if it doesn't fully support the file but it still always plays it. Transferring the files over was a bit harder. It was going to take 7 days to copy 1TB of files over from my server to the hard drive on the unit that I put in it. I even tried a direct cable and it was just as slow. I don't think it does any conversion but it is very slow. When you add a new hard drive in this unit, it formats it with Linux. When I put the drive from the Digital Entertainer in my Windows server it wanted to format the drive. I had to boot into a Linux OS and then I was able to copy the files over very quickly. The software that comes with the unit is pretty nice also. It lets you tag each movie file with information from the Internet Movie Database. It even displays a box cover. This unit also stores and plays music as well as Youtube videos streaming from the Internet. It will connect to your network by wireless or wired, or it can simply be a standalone unit. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars was because of the search feature in the unit. When I want to search for example, the movie "Zoolander", I input the letter "Z" from the remote and instead of filtering every movie that starts with "Z", it lists every movie with the letter "Z" in it like this...American ZombieBrazilCrazy PeopleDazed and ConfusedHot FuzzZoolanderIt's kind of a convoluted search in my opinion. Other than that, the Digital Entertainer is a top notch unit. It has a very user friendly interface with a nice remote control. It also has 2 USB ports and it can play media directly off of those or the media can be transferred to the hard drive. Netgear did a good job on the Digital Entertainer Elite!
33 of 36 people found the following review helpful.
By B. Campbell
Let me start by saying I was NOT looking for a Windows Media Center Extender, I was looking for a device that could handle my library of stored media (movies and music), especially it's ability to play DVD images, including the disc menus. For this purpose (provided you have a wireless N or wired network connection) the EVA-9150 is a solid choice, handling virtually any file format you can throw at it without problems. The Digital Entertainer Elite also streams Internet radio stations, and has a nifty RSS feed reading applet built-in.An application is included that does a decent job of helping you catalog your media library, including tools to help facilitate the creation of tags for media files. My favorite feature in this by far is the ability to go pre-fill a tag with information from IMDB: just go to the page for the movie, click the "fill" button, and all of the information about the movie populates the appropriate fields!The EVA-9150 includes a 500GB hard drive, but unless your home network is slow and you're having buffering problems, I doubt it would be of much use. If it is, you can swap it out for drives of up to 1TB in size.Output options are plentiful, including HDMI, component and digital outputs, as well as standard composite and analog audio, so interfacing to virtually any home theater system is realatively easy. Wireless and wired networking are built in and easy to use, and software is included to help you catalog the media on the various devices you may have around your house. Overall, I found everything relatively easy to use for a person familar with PCs and home theater, though the sheer number of options may be intimidating to a novice.One place where there's room for improvement is the 9150's ability to play various forms of streaming video from the Internet. Netgear will be releasing a firmware upgrade later this year that will allow the EVA-9150 to stream video from providers such as Amazon, Netflix and Hulu using a service called PlayOn that streams these and other services from your PC.Another sticking point for some users of this unit is it's rather paltry support for Blu-ray file formats. For example, the unit can't read an image of a Blu-ray disk that's stored on hard drive, you can only play back the main movie file, and even then the unit doesn't currently support pass-thru of Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD signal to your home theater system. While Netgear is working on these issues, it's unclear as to when a fix might be coming out. (I'd recommend a TivX 7000 for those who want this capability, but their spec sheet sports a similar "to be supported in a future release" quote for TrueHD and DTS-HD support.)As Netgear adds more capabilities to this unit with each firmware upgrade, they'll have a device that will be harder and harder to beat. For now, they merely have the best way I've found to make media stored on PCs, Macs and network attached storage devices playable on your home theater system.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
By T. N. Lopas
If you are someone who had downloaded hundreds of movies off of the internet or maybe you have a massive home movie collection that you want to be able to play on your TV instead of on your PC then this product might be for you.I tried over 20 different Blu-Ray discs with none working properly only to find out from Netgear that Blu-Ray is not fully supported. It will only play in the .M2TS format but (like most Blu-Ray audio formats it is in HD) the HD audio feeds will not be played from the player and will only play if you have a separate speaker set up. I thought that that was not such a big deal since I could stream to this device from my PC as well. The buffering feature does not work properly and audio drops out for minutes at a time. I have an N network so it is not a network issue.This product also claims to play premium content. That is a lie! It will stream premium content from your PC ONLY! All of the content that I have purchased from Amazon On Demand does not buffer properly.After talking about all of these issues with Netgear and with [...] (the company I purchased through on Amazon) for over a month all came back to me and said "We won't take it back." If you are thinking about purchasing this product I would tread softly. Personally I would purchase an HP mini and hook it up with an HDMI cable to your TV. You are guaranteed to have better results then the EVA1950 and it will operate USB drives with ease. Just a personal thought though.
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