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madshi · 15th January 2009, 14:04

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HDI has two new products which sound very awesome to me, namely:

- Dune BD Prime
- Dune HD Center

http://www.hdi.co.il/fullhd_players/

Both are full standalone Blu-Ray players, but they also support playing Blu-Ray disc rips from a network resource - including full menu and Java support. Also they support virtually any container / audio codec combination I can think of. Plus they can both decode and bitstream DTS-HD High Resolution, DTS-HD Master Audio, E-AC3 and TrueHD with full 7.1 channels.

E.g. they can play the video track of a MKV/TS/m2ts file together with external (demuxed) AC3, DTS and FLAC audio tracks. Or in other words: With these devices you don't need to mux the audio tracks into the container, anymore. You can just use "eac3to someMovie movie.mkv" and the Dune players will play the result just fine as it is. LOVE that.

Furthermore there's an option for a Gigabit network card, which works around the Sigma Designs chip's bad network speed, so that playing even highest bitrate Blu-Ray movies over (NFS) network connection is not a problem, anymore. Finally, the developers seem to be very open for improvement suggestions. Much more so than I've seen from any other media player company. See here:

http://mpcclub.com/modules.php?name=...wtopic&t=20060

This may finally be the product that can replace my HTPC for good. I'll order a HD Center with Gigabit card. The only thing I don't like is that there's a fan on the Sigma Designs chip...

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Please don't discuss this topic further in this thread. I just wanted to show some support for HDI here, because I think such a promising product has earned it.

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madshi Registered Developer Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 9,140	[blatant advertising] HDI has two new products which sound very awesome to me, namely: - Dune BD Prime - Dune HD Center http://www.hdi.co.il/fullhd_players/ Both are full standalone Blu-Ray players, but they also support playing Blu-Ray disc rips from a network resource - including full menu and Java support. Also they support virtually any container / audio codec combination I can think of. Plus they can both decode and bitstream DTS-HD High Resolution, DTS-HD Master Audio, E-AC3 and TrueHD with full 7.1 channels. E.g. they can play the video track of a MKV/TS/m2ts file together with external (demuxed) AC3, DTS and FLAC audio tracks. Or in other words: With these devices you don't need to mux the audio tracks into the container, anymore. You can just use "eac3to someMovie movie.mkv" and the Dune players will play the result just fine as it is. LOVE that. Furthermore there's an option for a Gigabit network card, which works around the Sigma Designs chip's bad network speed, so that playing even highest bitrate Blu-Ray movies over (NFS) network connection is not a problem, anymore. Finally, the developers seem to be very open for improvement suggestions. Much more so than I've seen from any other media player company. See here: http://mpcclub.com/modules.php?name=...wtopic&t=20060 This may finally be the product that can replace my HTPC for good. I'll order a HD Center with Gigabit card. The only thing I don't like is that there's a fan on the Sigma Designs chip... [/blatant advertising] Please don't discuss this topic further in this thread. I just wanted to show some support for HDI here, because I think such a promising product has earned it. Last edited by madshi; 15th January 2009 at 14:16.